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“rose l levinson”

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  • Death of a Holy Land

    Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction

    by Rose L. Levinson ...
    Death of a Holy Land: Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction, by Rose Levinson, uses the work of four contemporary Israeli authors as a lens into present-day Israel. Discussing the novels of Orly Castel-Bloom, Michal Govrin, Zeruya Shalev, and Yoram Kaniuk, the book argues for a new understanding of today’s Israel. Crucial to renewed awareness is a view of the country that jettisons the ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • The Wisdom Of The Talmud

    by Ben Zion Bokser ...
    The Wisdom of the Talmudby Ben Zion BokserA great introduction to the Talmud for contemporary readers.The literature of the Talmud represents approximately a thousand years of Jewish thought. Its foundations were laid by the work of Ezra during the middle of the fourth century B.C.E., in the community of the returned exiles from Babylonia, who inaugurated the second Jewish commonwealth in ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • Jesus in the Talmud

    by Peter Schäfer ...
    Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering. In this lucid, richly detailed, and accessible book, Peter Schäfer examines how the rabbis of the Talmud read, understood, and used the New Testament Jesus narrative to assert, ultimately, Judaism's superiority over Christianity.The ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Sages

    Vol 1: The Second Temple Period

    by Lau, Binyamin ...
    Series series The Sages
    The Sages is the first book to appear in English by the charismatic Jerusalem rabbi, Binyamin Lau. It offers fresh perspectives on the individual characters of the Jewish sages (Hazal), the historical contexts in which they lived, and the creativity they brought to the pursuit of Jewish wisdom. This first volume in a three-volume set examines the teachings of the Men of the Great Assembly, Yosi ... Read more

    $12.67 CAD

  • Summary and Analysis of Night

    Based on the Book by Elie Wiesel

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Night tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Elie Wiesel's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Night includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsAnalysis of the main charactersTh. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calypso Jews

    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

    $67.99 CAD

  • Migrant Cartographies

    New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe

    by Angelika Bammer, Rosemarie Buikema, Theo D'Haen, Robert Fraser, Paul Gilroy, Stephen Gundle, Alec Hargreaves, Graham Huggan, Ena Jansen, Tabish Khair, Lourdes Lopez-Ropero, John McLeod, Pamela Pattynama, Mineke Schipper, Meyda Yegenoglu ...
    In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented. With careful analysis and exceptional ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Talmud of Jerusalem

    by Dagobert D. Runes ...
    One of the world’s supreme works of religious literature, the Talmud has been unjustly neglected by a civilization that is rightly proud of its Judaeo-Christian heritage. This sacred book of Israel came to birth during the centuries following the fall of Jerusalem to the Roman Empire, when the people of Palestine were scattered to the four corners of the earth. To preserve their faith amid the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bieganski: The Brute Polak Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture

    by Danusha Goska ...
    In this controversial study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the "Bieganski" stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals. They are strong, stupid, violent, fertile, anarchic, dirty, and especially hateful in a way that more evolved humans are not. Their special hatefulness is epitomized by their Polish anti-Semitism. Bieganski discovers this stereotype ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Dreaming of Michelangelo

    Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme

    by Asher Biemann ...
    Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of Michelangelo as an "unrequited lover" whose work expressed loneliness and a longing for humanity's response. The modern Jewish imagination thus became ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Lingering Bilingualism

    Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact

    by Naomi Brenner ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew—the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition—and Yiddish—the East European Jewish vernacular—were "a match made in heaven that cannot be separated." That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the "exes" really go their separate ways?Lingering ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

    by Laurel Plapp ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western image of the Islamic world that has justified domination, critics have considered the Jewish ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD