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  • Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel

    Edited by Jeffrey Saks, Shalom Carmy ...
    Series series Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies Series
    "As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. "But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem." Agnon's act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem and ... Read more

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    by Steven Fine ...
    Chester Jones drives his new car to the forested slopes of the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, Australia, in order to deliver an extravagant gift to aclient after clinching a massive business deal.On the side of the road he discovers something that will change many lives, most particularly that of his and his wife's.In the meantime, a shark-eaten body of a woman is washed up on a beach by the Great ... Read more

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  • Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue

    by Steven Fine ...
    Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue explores the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious communities interacted with one another within the synagogue in the Greco-Roman period. It presents new perspectives regarding the development of the synagogue and its significance of this institution for understanding religion and society under the Roman Empire. ... Read more

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    by Steven Fine ...
    The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western world’s oldest continuously used religious symbol. This meticulously researched yet deeply personal history explains how the menorah illuminates the ... Read more

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    The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

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  • I Am Jewish

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