This textbook is composed of a teacher`s and a student`s manual and is designed for secondary school students of biology and agriculture. The Student`s Book encompasses theory and practice and develops the student`s research skills through mini-...
The book is devoted to prayer of the Holocaust period. It includes special prayers composed in occupied Europe and in the Free World on behalf of Jews under Nazism, and prayers in memory of Holocaust victims that were composed by authors from th...
An analysis of Agnon's most meritorious work, a story textured with myths and legends, gleaned by Agnon from numerous sources and transformed into an historiography of
the Jewish nation from its very beginnings, entwined with Agnon's autobiog...
A revealing correspondence extending over 30 years (1942 - 1971) between the distinguished literary critic, Baruch Kurzweil, and two of the greatest figures in modern Hebrew literature, S.Y. Agnon and U.Z. Greenberg.
The book explores subjects involving magic, astrology and related areas, in medieval Jewish thought, and illustrates the way in which these fields of study formulated a distinct theology, contributing to Jewish cultural development.
A literary reading of seven stories about prophets from Samuel to Elisha combining three disciplines: close reading, form criticism and structural analysis. An appendix deals with the role of minor characters in the biblical narrative. Co-publi...
This book traces the thought of the German philosopher Karl Jaspers, from his early writings as a young psychiatrist to his mature thinking as an existentialist.
The book includes: (1) a description of the Jewish community in Lisbon and its leader, Rabbi Joseph Hayyun in the 15th century, (2)’an analysis of selections from Hayyun's writings - commentaries and introductions to biblical texts’- published ...
The book, Rosh Amana (1494, Italy), by Rabbi Yitzhak Abravanel, the renowned Bible exegete who was exiled from Spain to Italy, deals with the principles of Jewish faith. In his broad analysis, Abravanel relates to his predecessors, particularly...