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“moshe pelli”

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  • Haskalah and Beyond

    The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism

    by Moshe Pelli ...
    Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) - the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe.It represents the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the Hebrew and Jewish enlighteners to introduce changes into Jewish culture and Jewish life, and to ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

    by Sarah Phillips Casteel ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of postwar Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Road to Resilience

    From Chaos to Celebration

    by Mandell, Sherri ...
    How do you grow from grief? How do the Jewish people continue on with strength despite all of the hardships they have faced? Sherri Mandell explores the seven spiritual steps of resilience that teach us how to not only survive grief, but how to thrive in the face of loss and trauma.Resilience is often misunderstood. In Jewish thought, resilience is not bouncing back, but is a process of becoming ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Secret Life of God

    Discovering the Divine within You

    by Rabbi David Aaron ...
    How much does our perception of God really matter? Many of us aren't conscious of our image of a "higher power." For some of us, that unspoken image is a Judgmental Parent or an exacting Old Man in the Sky. For others, God is an Imaginary Friend who is there to fix problems after we create them.David Aaron can help you discover a mature, new understanding of God and lead you to discover the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature

    False Messiah and National Hero

    by Richard G. Marks ...
    Series series Hermeneutics
    Bar Kokhba led the Jewish rebellion against Rome in 132–135 A.D., which resulted in massive destruction and dislocation of the Jewish populace of Judea. In early rabbinic literature, Bar Kokhba was remembered in two ways: as an imposter claiming to be the Messiah and as a glorious military leader whose successes led Rabbi Akiba, one of the great rabbinic authorities of Jewish tradition, to acclaim ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Seventh Heaven: Celebrating Shabbat with Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

    by Moshe Mykoff ...
    Deepen your understanding of Shabbat, awaken to the possibilities, and experience the day with an extra measure of holiness.Seventh Heaven delves into the art of consciously observing Shabbatexploring many of the days traditional religious practices within the context of lifes spiritual dynamics. With the help and wisdom of Rebbe Nachman of Breslovone of the most important of the early Hasidic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Elie Wiesel

    Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

    by Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen ...
    "Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel's interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more." — Publishers WeeklyNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and ... Read more

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  • Imagining the Kibbutz

    Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film

    by Ranen Omer-Sherman ...
    Series series Dimyonot
    In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no ... Read more

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  • Who We Are

    On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer

    Edited by Derek Rubin ...
    This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond.E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular and universal. Allegra Goodman embraces the categorization, arguing that it immediately binds her to her ... Read more

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  • Doubting the Devout

    The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination

    by Nora L. Rubel ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Before 1985, depictions of ultra-Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appear, in films such as Fiddler on the Roof or within the novels of Chaim Potok, they evoked a nostalgic vision of Old World tradition. Yet the ordination of women into positions of religious leadership and other controversial issues have sparked an increasingly visible and voluble culture war ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures

    Edited by Nadia Valman, Laurence Roth ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn:How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Refurbishing Eden: Exploring Adaptations of Adam and Eve

    by Maxwell Bauman ...
    What has to happen for an old story to become fresh and engaging again? One example of a myth that has been retold and modified is the story of creation and Fall of Man, which appears in the first three chapters of Genesis from the Old Testament. This essay looks into the different methods and tools that writers need to make a retelling of a story fresh and engaging for modern audiences. ... Read more

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