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  • A Lingering Legacy

    The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938

    by Aya Elyada ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals with their Yiddish literary heritage. From the late eighteenth century onwards, as growing circles of the German-Jewish population shifted from speaking Yiddish to German, the once-popular early modern corpus of Old Yiddish ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish

    Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany

    by Aya Elyada ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the motivations for Christian interest in Yiddish, and the differing ways in which Yiddish was discussed and treated in Christian texts, A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish addresses a wide array of issues, most notably ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Jews and Protestants From the Reformation to the Present

    Edited by Irene Aue-Ben-David, Aya Elyada, Moshe Sluhovsky ...
    The book sheds light on various chapters in the long history of Protestant-Jewish relations, from the Reformation to the present. Going beyond questions of antisemitism and religious animosity, it aims to disentangle some of the intricate perceptions, interpretations, and emotions that have characterized contacts between Protestantism and Judaism, and between Jews and Protestants.While some papers ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • German–Jewish Studies

    Next Generations

    Edited by Kerry Wallach, Aya Elyada ...
    As a field, German-Jewish Studies emphasizes the dangers of nationalism, monoculturalism, and ethnocentrism, while making room for multilingual and transnational perspectives with questions surrounding migration, refugees, exile, and precarity. Focussing on the relevance and utility of the field for the twenty-first century, German-Jewish Studies explores why studying and applying German-Jewish ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • German–Jewish Studies

    Next Generations

    Edited by Aya Elyada, Kerry Wallach ...
    As a field, German-Jewish Studies emphasizes the dangers of nationalism, monoculturalism, and ethnocentrism, while making room for multilingual and transnational perspectives with questions surrounding migration, refugees, exile, and precarity. Focussing on the relevance and utility of the field for the twenty-first century, German-Jewish Studies explores why studying and applying German-Jewish ... Read more

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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Letters and Papers from Prison"

    A Biography

    by Martin E Marty ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler ... Read more

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  • Demonizing the Jews

    Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

    by Christopher J. Probst ...
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  • Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History

    by David Biale ...
    To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power.The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the conventions of what he terms the Jewish "mythical ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Enlightenment

    by Shmuel Feiner ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They ... Read more

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    Spinoza and the History of an Image

    by Daniel B. Schwartz ...
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  • Early Modern Jewry

    A New Cultural History

    by David B. Ruderman ...
    A compelling history of the early modern Jewish experienceEarly Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of society. Looking at how Jewish settlements ... Read more

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