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“andreas kilcher”

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  • Writing Jewish Culture

    Paradoxes in Ethnography

    Edited by Andreas Kilcher, Gabriella Safran ...
    "Looks at the ethnographic issues while defining Jewishness in a very fresh, sophisticated way . . . very timely and important." — Washington Book ReviewFocusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination.Challenging the ... Read more

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    by Nurho de Manhar ...
    "The Zohar," also known as "Sepher Ha-Zohar," is a significant and well-known mystical and esoteric work in Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah). It was written by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and is traditionally attributed to him in the 2nd century CE, though its authorship and compilation have been a subject of scholarly debate.The Zohar is a complex and deeply symbolic text that delves into the ... Read more

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  • The Real Name of God

    Embracing the Full Essence of the Divine

    by Rabbi Wayne Dosick, Ph.D. ...
    Reveals the real, whole name of God and its place within each of us• Explains how none of the God-names commonly used in the Bible is God’s real name• Shows how the real name of God unites all religions from both West and East• Includes spiritual techniques, prayers, poems, and meditative chants to bring each of us into deep, personal, intimate, living relationship with GodOf the many names of God ... Read more

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  • Family Guide to Celebration of the Jewish Holidays

    by Linda Chesler, Leonard Chesler ...
    We always tried to celebrate the Jewish Holidays as a family. Starting when our children were young, it soon became apparent to us that it was much better and much more meaningful if as part of our celebration, we discussed each holiday with each other, talking about why the holiday is celebrated, its origin and history, how it is celebrated and very importantly its meaning, relevance and value to ... Read more

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  • Sephardism

    Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination

    Edited by Yael Halevi-Wise ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century, this metaphor has occurred with extraordinary frequency in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities, religions, and nationalities in Europe, the Americas, North Africa, Israel, and even India.Sephardism asks why Gentile and Jewish writers and ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • 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

    $33.99 CAD

  • Notebooks

    Selections from the A.M. Klein Papers (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)

    by A.M. Klein ...
    Series series Heritage
    Much of A.M. Klein's finest prose is to be found in the mass of uncompleted work that he abandoned at the time of his breakdown, and that became accessible only when his papers were deposited in the National Archives. Notebooks offers a generous selection of this work, revealing previously unsuspected facets of Klein's character and artistry.The fiction, criticism, and memoirs collected here focus ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Catskills

    Its History and How It Changed America

    by Stephen M. Silverman, Raphael D. Silver ...
    The Catskills (“Cat Creek” in Dutch), America’s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America’s first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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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  • Eve's Journey

    Feminine Images in Hebraic Literary Tradition

    by Nehama Aschkenasy ...
    In Eve's Journey, Nehama Aschkenasy traces the migration of several female images and feminine situations from their early appearances in Biblical writings to their incarnations in modern Hebraic literature. Focusing on the evolution of early female archetypes and prototypes, Aschkenasy uncovers the ancient roots of modern female characters and traces the changing cultural perceptions of women in ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust

    Kafka's kitsch

    by David A. Brenner ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    David A. Brenner examines how Jews in Central Europe developed one of the first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. Not exclusively "German" or "Jewish," the experiences of German-speaking Jewry in the decades prior to the Third Reich and the Holocaust were also negotiated in encounters with popular culture, particularly the novel, the drama and mass media.Despite recent scholarship, the ... Read more

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