Signs of Enjoyment
A Lacanian Reading of the Poetry of Yonah Wallach and David Avidan By Inbal Raz Barkin October 2010 Danacode 110-20158 In Stock
Jacques Lacan is known not only as a revolutionary and significant psychoanalyst, but also as the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. His psychoanalytical theory, founded on the basic Freudian concepts, introduces a new and unique set ...
In the past few years there has been a burst of interest in Jewish political tradition, focusing particularly on basic related issues. Even though the subject has been dealt with at length, there is still a lac...
Red Poem Blue Poem
Seven Essays on Uri Zvi Grinberg and Two Essays on Else Lasker-Schuler By Avidov Lipsker May 2010 Paperback Danacode 110-20154 In Stock
This book sets out to redefine Ur Zvi Grinberg`s writings on the background of the cultural framework in which they flourished and to return them to the place from which they were extracted and made timeless. The book reconstructs the beginnings...
Commentary on Yesod Mora
The Commentary of Mordekhai ben Eliezer Komtiyano on R. Abraham Ibn Ezra's Yesod Mora By Dov Schwartz April 2010 Hardcover Danacode 110-20152 In Stock
An annotated critical edition of Mordekhai ben Eliezer Komtiyano`s Commentary on R. Abraham Ibn Ezra`s Yesod Mora. Komtiyano was one of the leading Jewish philosophers in late medieval Byzantine. His commentary focuses on Ibn Ezra`s statements ...
The book analyses the theme ``Abraham in the Furnace`` from a historical and contextual perspective by means of more than ninety written Jewish story versions. The personal story of Abraham, as a rebellious individual, merges with the national s...
This book presents the reasons and purposes behind marriage and family law in the Talmud and the controversies regarding them, thereby providing the reader with an organized, systematic summary of the Talmudic laws on these subjects which have n...
Exploring Ta`aniot
Yerushalmi, Tractate Ta`anit - Forming and Redacting the Traditions By Nurit Beeri July 2009 Hardcover Danacode 110-20141 In Stock
The book is an interpretation of the creation, formation and redaction of tractate Ta`anit in the Palestinian Talmud. It explores the voices heard in the text: the quoted amora, the transmitter of the tradition, and the anonymous voice the stam...
This book is based on the findings of a study on the existence of marketing activities and initiatives in Jewish society in Palestine during the Mishna and Talmud era. It includes a number of subjects relating to economic and marketing activitie...
This book analyses the attitude of Habad philosophers to Maimonides and their interpretation of Maimonidean doctrines. Maimonides was not viewed by Habad philosophers only as an eminent philosopher and rabbinic sage, but also as one who merited ...
In All Your Ways Know Him
The Concept of God and avodah begashmiyut in the Early Stages of Hasidism By Tsippi Kauffman May 2009 Paperback Danacode 110-20127 Out of Stock
This book explores models of avodah be-gashmiyut in nascent Hasidism and aims to determine how it provides a response to the tension between the halakhic demand for a certain manner of religious conduct and the immanentistic trends in the Hasidi...
Death of the Shekhina
Readings in Four Agnon Stories and in their Sources By Tzahi Weiss May 2009 Hardcover Danacode 110-20130 Out of Stock
The possibility of the existence of original theology in modern Hebrew literature has not been systematically researched by contemporary scholars. Hebrew literature was considered to be a product of secular modernity, and consequently devoid of ...