This volume traces the history of Hebrew versification from biblical poetry, through ancient Hebrew liturgy, medieval poetry, poetry of the Haskalah, and finally modern Hebrew poetry. After the biblical period, all systems of versification deman...
This book deals with rabbinic enactments and prohibitions from the Second Temple period, designed to separate Jews from gentiles, from their practices and from their culture, e.g. the prohibitions of eating with a gentile, or partaking of a gent...
The Rav Kook Award for Research Studies and Rabbinic Books, 1998 A study of the various methods of annotation employed by scribes and scholars and the attitude of the rabbis towards them before and after the invention of printing. Includes also ...
Prize for Jewish Philosophy of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 1997-2000 The book sheds new light on Jewish rationalistic thought of the late Middle Ages, particularly in Spain and...
The book discusses the problem of esoteric teaching in medieval rationalism. It interprets medieval Jewish philosophy in the light of intentional contradictions found in books written by medieval philosophers.
The David Yallin Jerusalem Prize for Education and Hokhmat Yisrael, 1985 A model analysis of Maimonidean legal thought and method, including, among other topics, attitudes towards the state and its purpose, sources of political authority, etc. D...
The Torah Case
Its History and Design By Bracha Yaniv January 1999 Hardcover Danacode 110-10431 Out of Stock
The Ben-Zvi Prize for Oriental Jewish Communities, 1999 A comprehensive volume, the first of its kind, which traces the history of the Torah-Case from its beginnings. The book delves into the art of creating the Torah-Case in Yemen and India, ...
The Ze`ev Jabotinsky Prize for Literature and Research, 1997 Examines the history of the deportation from Palestine of several hundred members of Irgun Zeva`i Leumi (Etzel) and Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Lehi), and their detention in British camps ...
AWARD-WINNING BOOK!! A geographical-historical study of the religious kibbutz settlement from the time of its establishment until the foundation of the State of Israel. Co-published with Magnes Press, The Hebrew University.
Miriam and Nehemia Aminoah Prize of the Histradrut Hapoel Hamizrahi, 1997 A collection of documents written in Lucena, southern Spain, at the beginning of the 11th century C.E., from Cairo Geniza fragments in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Exam...
Books and Readers
The Reading Interests of Italian Jews at the Close of the Renaissance By Shifra Baruchson January 1993 Hardcover Danacode 110-10276 Out of Stock
The Zalman Shazar Prize in the Study of the History of the Jewish People, 1993 The book offers, for the first time in Jewish research, answers to the questions: What was being read and by whom? What was the circulation of more than a thousand wo...
Encyclopedia of the Jewish Story 3
Mikra'ot Gedolot - 'Haketer' - Psalms II - small edition
Mikra'ot Gedolot - 'Haketer' - Samuel I & II- small edition
Music in Jewish Thought
Mordecai is Riding a Horse
Will, Freedom and Necessity
S. D. Luzzatto
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