This compilation deals with religious works written in the span of 1,000 years by sages of Fez and other Moroccan communities about language, religious poetry and literature, interpretation and thought, established halacha and local regulations.
Mordecai is Riding a Horse
Purim Celebrations in Tel-Aviv (1908-1936) and the Building of a New Nation By Hizky Shoham May 2013 Paperback Danacode 110-20192 In Stock
The book presents a description of Purim celebrations in Tel-Aviv and their development from the end of Ottoman period until their cessation in 1936 and highlights the unique role of the concept of tradition in the creation of the new nation.
Israel’s military-security dimension and its foreign policy-diplomatic counterpart are explored. The periods covered range from the 1920s until contemporary times.
This book contains annotated documents which provide a picture of religious Zionism’s struggle with creating the State of Israel and saving Jews from Nazi persecution from the years 1939 to 1945.
By Eliezer Tauber June 2012 Hardcover Danacode 110-20180 In Stock
Military Resistance in Late Mandatory Palestine presents telegrams sent to London by High Commissioner General Sir Alan Cunningham about the activities of the Jewish and Arab military organizations in Palestine from early 1947 to mid-May 1948. T...
What is special about this particular commentary is its use of accumulated knowledge and its integration of a research method with a traditional approach to the text.
``Pretense and Reality`` presents a vivid picture of the Mizrahi and its subsidiary movements, in light of the fact that the movement and its members were at an ideological and social crossroads. They had to deal with trends of modernization and...
This fifth volume of the series These Are The Names – Studies in Jewish Onomastics, includes a selection of articles that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the study of Jewish names. Scholars who have researched the subject from biblical ...
Yavneh Stories
Visiting the Sick and Consoling Mourners By Azaria Baitner January 2011 Hardcover Danacode 110-20164 In Stock
The book deals with stories about the Yavneh sages on two subjects: visiting the sick and consoling mourners. Their analysis fully displays their artistic, esthetic and ideological splendor. The stories examine, through human suffering, the theo...
This collection includes a selection of some of the articles that Prof. Moshe Beer published in his lifetime. His research deals with the history of the Jewish people in the periods of the Second Temple, the Mishnah and the Talmud in Eretz Israe...