The Ba'al Shem Tov is an elusive subject for historians because documentary evidence about his life is scanty and equivocal. Until now, much of what was known about him was based on stories compiled m
Recognizing the need for a new Jewish model of thinking about other religions, Goshen-Gottstein (Elijah Interfaith Institute; Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought at Bet Morasha, Jerusalem) and Ko
Continuing his comprehensive survey of the large pre-Holocaust Jewish communities of eastern Europe--v.1 covers 1350-1881, v.2 covers 1881-1914, Polonsky (Holocaust studies, United States Holocaust Me
In this translation from Hebrew, Rapoport-Albert (Jewish studies, U. College London) discusses the active role of women as supporters, prophets, and in redemptive sexual union in the heretical movemen
Moshe Rosman presents a cogent and critical argument for the considerations that must be brought to bear on the writing of Jewish history today. By highlighting in one book the issues raised by postm
This volume takes up Neara??s narrative account of the history of the kibbutz movement from the outbreak of the Second World War. He considers the effects of the war and the Holocaust on the kibbutzim
The founding rabbi of the new London Synagogue further defends his thesis concluding the 1984 edition that social, economic, political, and theological factors have always shaped halakhah (Jewish law)
Altmann (1906-1987, founder of the Institute for Jewish Studies) presents Mendelssohn in strictly biographical terms. He does not attempt to assess his significance or trace his image in subsequent ge
Surveys the early modern period of Jewish history, which is seen as a transitional period that is distinct from the Jewish Middle Ages and the post-Enlightenment era. Israel (Dutch History, U. College
The Book of Tahkemoni (The Book of Wisdom or the Heroic) is widely regarded as the crowning jewel of Hebrew maqama literature-rhymed prose interspersed with verse. In its fifty unlinked episodes we re
A selection of articles, originally published in volumes 1-7 of Polin, on many aspects of the history of the Jews of Poland from the earliest settlement to the Second World War, with an extensive new
The majority of Polish Jews always lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls. Much of what we know of life in the shtetls comes from literary accounts rather than from historical research
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