This book traces the sources, history and development of a broad variety of customs associated with the Jewish life cycle, from birth to death. It draws upon a vast repertoire of sources, both literary and pictorial, Jewish and non-Jewish, and p...
This book is a study of the philosophy of R. Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, during the period between 1945 and 1965. The first section analyses R. Soloveitchik`s great phenomenological work U`Bikashtem Misham. The second section deals with a number of...
In this book Dov Schwartz analyses the writings of R. Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, one of the most influential Jewish philosophers of this generation. Soloveitchik contended with Jewish as well as general philosophical sources and wrote in varied st...
This series of essays and articles by experts in almost every field of Eastern Jewish life and thought - Sociology, History, Philosophy, Kabbalah, Responsa and Linguistics - does much to fill some of the lacunae in the anatomy of world Jewish cu...
A study of the phenomenon of cooperation between Jews and Arabs in the municipality of Haifa during the British Mandate. This is a first attempt to present a comprehensive and inclusive research that deals with the local government`s influence o...
Times of crisis are the making or unmaking of a leadership. The present volume examines this theme in great depth and variety, encompassing a time span from classical Athens to the second half of the 20th century, and moving through Europe, Asia...
`` Kenishta is a series devoted to the scholarly study of synagogue life. Since the destruction of the Second Temple until recent times, the synagogue has been the focus of Jewish life, serving both as a place for Jews to gather for prayer, and ...
The co-operative work of leading Bar-Ilan scholars in the faculties of Jewish Studies and Arts, covers a wide range of subjects in Halakhah, Jewish History and Jewish Literature, Language and Philosophy, and other aspects of modern Jewish life.
Bar-Ilan University is a unique phenomenon in the academic scene in Israel and abroad. The university was established by the religious Zionist movement as a ``religious`` institution. The sections of this work shed light on the nature of Bar-Ila...
Bar-Ilan University is a unique phenomenon in the academic scene in Israel and abroad. The university was established by the religious Zionist movement as a ``religious`` institution. The sections of this work shed light on the nature of Bar-Ila...
This volume discusses various aspects of everyday life in rabbinic Palestine. It examines the Jewish literary evidence from textual, philological and legal viewpoints, correlating the results with contemporary archaeological evidence, and making...
B.D.D.- Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu 35
Yefet Ben 'Eli's Commentary on Zephaniah
Ya'akov Shachewitz - A'Mind Miner' from the 1st 'Aliya'
Rabbi Shalom Shabazi: Revelations from a New Manuscript
Criticism and Interpretation 46
Prolonged Singlehood among Religious Zionists
And Now - A Story
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