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  • Dissident Rabbi

    The Life of Jacob Sasportas

    by Yaacob Dweck ...
    A revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to assert the value of rabbinic doubt in the face of messianic certaintyIn 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the world was at hand. As Jews everywhere rejected the traditional laws of Judaism in favor of new norms established by Sabbetai ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • The Scandal of Kabbalah

    Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice

    by Yaacob Dweck ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    How the Jewish culture war over Kabbalah beganThe Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the ... Read more

    Was $72.59 CAD Now $38.49 CAD

  • Formations of Belief

    Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular

    by Max Weiss, Yaacob Dweck, Stefania Pastore, Peter Brown, Caterina Pizzigoni, Victoria Smolkin, Brad S. Gregory, Peter E. Gordon0, Muhammad Qasim Zaman1, Anthony T. Grafton2, Katja Guenther4 ...
    Series series Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University
    For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life—and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings together many of today's leading historians to shed critical light on secularism's origins, its present crisis, and whether it ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Sabbatai Ṣevi

    The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676

    Translated by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky ...
    by Gershom Scholem ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A work widely esteemed as his magnum opus, Sabbatai Ṣevi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai Ṣevi was an obscure kabbalist rabbi of seventeenth-century Turkey who aroused a fervent following that spread over the ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

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  • Anti-Judaism

    by David Nirenberg ...
    A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition.There is a widespread tendency to regard anti-Judaism – whether expressed in a casual remark or implemented through pogrom or extermination campaign – as somehow exceptional: an unfortunate indicator of personal prejudice or the shocking outcome ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Between Tel Aviv and Moscow

    A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union

    by Leah Trachtman-Palchan ...
    Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. This was a life of migration, dissent, exile and survival. Born in the final years of Tsarist Russia, her family was forced to leave their small town following the repeated pogroms of the Civil War era. A two year voyage followed, bringing them all to British Mandate Palestine in 1921. Here what seems like a typical ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • The Chosen Few

    How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492

    by Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore. What caused this radical change? The Chosen Few presents a new answer to this question ... Read more

    Was $84.69 CAD Now $29.69 CAD

  • The Cabala

    by Bernhard Pick ...
    This is a short monograph on the Kabbalah, written from a purely academic and somewhat critical point of view. Pick traces the origins and background of the Kabbalah to Jewish scholars of mediaeval Spain. He does not attribute any deeper roots to it historically, nor does he examine the roots of Jewish mysticism except for a brief mention of the Merkabah. If you are looking for an introduction to ... Read more

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  • How Judaism Became a Religion

    An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

    by Leora Batnitzky ...
    Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period--and why Jewish thinkers have ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • The Jewish Jesus

    How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other

    by Peter Schäfer ...
    How the rise of Christianity profoundly influenced the development of Judaism in late antiquityIn late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape ... Read more

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  • Legends of the Jews

    All four volumes in a single file

    by Louis Ginzberg ...
    Bible times and characters from creation to Esther. The introduction begins: "The term Rabbinic was applied to the Jewish Literature of post-Biblical times by those who conceived the Judaism of the later epoch to be something different from the Judaism of the Bible, something actually opposed to it. Such observers held that the Jewish nation ceased to exist with the moment when its political ... Read more

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  • The Love of God

    Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism

    by Jon D. Levenson ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    "[An] original point of view. . . . A way of finding new meaning in . . . talking about God. It succeeds brilliantly on all counts." ― Jewish Book CouncilThe love of God is the most essential element in Judaism—but also the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an ... Read more

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