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Cultures of the Jews by David Biale
Category: Judaica
In 23 provocative essays grounded by cultural texts/artefacts, leading scholars (archeologists, historians, literary critics, folklorists) from Israel and diaspora countries address issues of ever-evolving Jewish identity (or is it identities?) and bilateral relations with their majority cultural co
Cultures of the Jews: v. 1 by David Biale
Category: Judaica
Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their history, are the Jews 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, some of the ...Show more
Cultures of the Jews: v. 2 by David Biale
Category: Judaica
Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their history, are the Jews 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, some of the ...Show more
Cultures of the Jews: v. 3 by David Biale
Category: Judaica
Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their history, are the Jews 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, some of the ...Show more
Gershom Scholem - Master of the Kabbalah by David Biale
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as ...Show more
Hasidism: A New History by David Biale
Category: History
The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern JudaismThis is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement's leaders as well a ...Show more
Hasidism - a New History by David Biale; David Assaf; Benjamin Brown; Uriel Gellman; Samuel Heilman
Category: Judaica
A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movementHasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Ba'al Shem Tov, but it was only after his death in 1760 that a movement began to spread. Today, Hasidism is witnessing a ...Show more
Origins of the Kabbalah by Gershom Gerhard Scholem; David Biale; R. J. Zwi Werblowsky (Editor); Allan Arkush
Category: Spirituality | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in twelft ...Show more
The Norton Anthology of World Religions - Judaism by David Biale
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The Norton Anthology of World Religions offers a beautifully designed library of more than 1,000 primary texts, accompanied by headnotes, annotations, glossaries, maps, illustrations, chronologies, and a dazzling general introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles. This collection "will unsettle so ...Show more
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