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  • Queering Jewish Cultural Heritage in Europe

    Iridescently Yours

    Edited by Sacha Kagan, Miranda Crowdus ...
    This book moves towards the development of more inclusive practices in the handling, management, and debate of Jewish cultural heritage in Europe. The volume presents dynamic explorations of current Jewish subjects across a range of positionalities. It uses diverse methodologies such as ethnographic and sociological fieldwork, research creation, and artistic response.Deploying “queer” in relation ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Culture and Sustainable Development in the City

    Urban Spaces of Possibilities

    Edited by Sacha Kagan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban "spaces of possibilities" and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban policies.The call for sustainability brings with it challenges for which, in view of the urgency of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • The Coming of Lilith

    Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003

    by Judith Plaskow ...
    This first collection of Judith Plaskow's essays and short writings traces her scholarly and personal journey from her early days as a graduate student through her pioneering contributions to both feminist theology and Jewish feminism to her recent work in sexual ethics.Accessibly organized into four sections, the collection begins with several of Plaskow's foundational essays on feminist theology ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The No-State Solution

    A Jewish Manifesto

    by Daniel Boyarin ...
    **A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”—Kirkus Reviews**Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture

    by Gene Edward, Jr. Veith ...
    The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun. Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: Truth, meaning, and individual identity do not exist. These are social constructs. Human life has no special significance, no more value than ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Female Face of God in Auschwitz

    A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust

    by Melissa Raphael ...
    Series series Religion and Gender
    The dominant theme of post-Holocaust Jewish theology has been that of the temporary hiddenness of God, interpreted either as a divine mystery or, more commonly, as God's deferral to human freedom. But traditional Judaic obligations of female presence, together with the traditional image of the Shekhinah as a figure of God's 'femaleness' accompanying Israel into exile, seem to contradict such ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism

    by Claire Elise Katz ...
    A study of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical project and the necessary role his essays on Jewish education play in the project's success.Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas's essays on Jewish education within the context of his larger philosophical project, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society. Katz examines Levinas's ... Read more

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  • Orthodox by Design

    Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution

    by Jeremy Stolow ...
    Orthodox by Design, a groundbreaking exploration of religion and media, examines ArtScroll, the world’s largest Orthodox Jewish publishing house, purveyor of handsomely designed editions of sacred texts and a major cultural force in contemporary Jewish public life. In the first in-depth study of the ArtScroll revolution, Jeremy Stolow traces the ubiquity of ArtScroll books in local retail markets, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Yiddish Lives On

    Strategies of Language Transmission

    by Rebecca Margolis ...
    The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities.Yiddish ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • From Memory to Transformation

    Jewish Women's Voices

    Edited by Sarah Silberstein Swartz, Margie Wolfe ...
    Not satisfied by the established roles assigned to them, Jewish women have begun to uncover their history, religion and culture using tradition and memory to inspire and transform their lives. In From Memory to Transformation, women activists, rabbis, sch ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Becoming Frum

    How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism

    by Sarah Bunin Benor ...
    Series series Jewish Cultures of the World
    Winner, 2013 Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish LiteratureWhen non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious), they encounter much more than dietary laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture, involving matchmakers, homemade gefilte fish, and Yiddish-influenced grammar. Becoming Frum explains how these newcomers learn Orthodox language and culture through ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Dialectical Theology and Jacques Ellul

    An Introductory Exposition

    Edited by Jacob E. Van Vleet ...
    In Dialectical Theology and Jacques Ellul, Jacob E. Van Vleet argues that the work of Jacques Ellul is frequentlyand deleteriouslymisread on account of inattention to the theological underpinning that governs Elluls thought. In a penetrating analysis, the first of its kind, Van Vleet provides a substantive account of the theological structure of Elluls work and demonstrates the determinative role ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus