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  • Kabbalah and Literature

    by Professor Kitty Millet ...
    Series series Comparative Jewish Literatures
    Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish writers to examine the intersection of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, and secular Jewish literatures.Kabbalah and Literature shows how the Jewish mystical tradition contributes to the renewal of literature in a modern, global, and increasingly disconnected age. Kitty Millet explores Kabbalah's conceptual underpinnings, aesthetic principles, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust

    A Comparative History of Persecution

    by Professor Kitty Millet ...
    Series series A Modern History of Politics and Violence
    This book provides a sophisticated investigation into the experience of being exterminated, as felt by victims of the Holocaust, and compares and contrasts this analysis with the experiences of people who have been colonized or enslaved. Using numerous victim accounts and a wide range of primary sources, the book moves away from the 'continuity thesis', with its insistence on colonial intent as ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Fault Lines of Modernity

    The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature

    Edited by Dorothy Figueira, Professor Kitty Millet ...
    This state of the art collection offers fresh perspectives on why intersections between literature, religion, and ethics can address the fault lines of modernity and are not necessarily the cause of modernity's 'faults.' From a diverse cohort of scholars from around the world, with appointments in comparative literature and other disciplines, the essays suggest that the imagined hegemony of a ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • On Jean Améry

    Philosophy of Catastrophe

    by Magdalena Zolkos, J M. Bernstein, Arne Grøn, Dennis B. Klein, Joseph Rosen, Philipa Rothfield, Melanie Steiner Sherwood, Wolfgang Treitler, Aleksandra Ubertowska, Michael Ure, Anna Yeatman, Markus Zisselsberger, Kitty Millet, Thomas Brudholm, Roy Ben-Shai ...
    On Jean Améry provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. In the English-speaking world Améry is known for his poignant publication, At the Mind's Limits, a narrative of exile, dispossession, torture, and Auschwitz. In recent years, there has been ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

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  • Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

    by Gershom Scholem ...
    A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today. ... Read more

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  • The Way of Man: According to Hasidic Teaching

    by Martin Buber, Bernard H. Mehlman, Gabriel E. Padawer ...
    This short and remarkable book presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and their relevance to our lives. Told through legendary tales of the Hasidic masters, together with Bubers own unique insights, The Way of Man offers us a way of understanding ourselves and our place in a spiritual ... Read more

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  • Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life

    Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein

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    An "engagingly personal" exploration of Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, and the relationship between philosophy and religion ( Times Literary Supplement).In this book, distinguished philosopher and practicing Jew Hilary Putnam questions the thought of three major Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century—Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas—to help him reconcile the philosophical ... Read more

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  • Elie Wiesel

    Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

    by Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen ...
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  • Zakhor

    Jewish History and Jewish Memory

    by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ...
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    $23.99 USD

  • Talking about God: Exploring the Meaning of Religious Life with Kierkegaard, Buber, Tillich and Heschel

    by Daniel F. Polish ...
    Challenge Yourself to Delve into a Deeper Interfaith DialogueTo wrestle with the ideas these thinkers present is to find ourselves challenged to look at our own religious lives in new ways; and to appreciate the spiritual endeavors of others, whatever form their religious expression may take. To engage with these thinkers can leave us enlarged in our perception of human religiousness and deepened ... Read more

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  • The Messianic Idea in Judaism

    And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality

    by Gershom Scholem ...
    An insightful collection of essays on the Kabbalah and Jewish spirituality—from the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism.Gershom Scholem was the master builder of historical studies of the Kabbalah. When he began to work on this neglected field, the few who studied these texts were either amateurs who were looking for occult wisdom, or old-style Kabbalists who were seeking guidance on their ... Read more

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