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  • Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis

    The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century

    by David B. Ruderman ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    An examination of the life and work of Alexander McCaul and his impact on Jewish-Christian relationsIn Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis, David B. Ruderman considers the life and works of prominent evangelical missionary Alexander McCaul (1799-1863), who was sent to Warsaw by the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity Amongst the Jews. He and his family resided there for nearly a decade ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis

    The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century

    by David B. Ruderman ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    An examination of the life and work of Alexander McCaul and his impact on Jewish-Christian relationsIn Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis, David B. Ruderman considers the life and works of prominent evangelical missionary Alexander McCaul (1799-1863), who was sent to Warsaw by the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity Amongst the Jews. He and his family resided there for nearly a decade ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Connecting Histories

    Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by David B. Ruderman, Francesca Bregoli ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to unprecedented modes of social mixing for Jews, especially for those living in urban areas, who ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Connecting Histories

    Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by David B. Ruderman, Francesca Bregoli ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to unprecedented modes of social mixing for Jews, especially for those living in urban areas, who ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era

    The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy

    by David B. Ruderman ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    The history of a single book sheds light on the beginnings of modern Jewish thoughtIn 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz published Book of the Covenant. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, Pinḥas’s publication was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge and a manual of moral behavior. Its popularity stemmed from its ability to present ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • 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

    $22.39 USD

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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

    $35.99 USD

  • Cultures of the Jews

    A New History (National Jewish Book Award)

    Edited by David Biale ...
    WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUTWho are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors?To address these and similar questions, twenty ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

    The Western Tradition

    by David Nirenberg ...
    A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking in the Western tradition.This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West.Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • How the West Became Antisemitic

    Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new waysIn medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Response to Modernity

    A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism

    by Michael A. Meyer ...
    Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement.The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that affected millions of Jews, first in central and Western Europe and later in the United ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism

    by Alan T. Levenson ...
    Series Book 2 - The Wiley-Blackwell Histories of Religion
    The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism presents a panoramic and comprehensive overview of the major aspects of Jewish life and culture, from the biblical period through to contemporary times.A collection of outstanding contributions from leading experts presents the latest scholarship on a range of questions relating to Jews, Jewish history, Judaism, folk practices, politics, economic ... Read more

    $168.00 USD