Jewish Studies

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• Book review: Rachel Calof’s Story

  
  Indiana University Press blog — Authority: 124
  "I came upon Laura Ingalls Wilders prairie stories as an adult, while reading them to my son. I was as captivated by Rachel Calofs autobiography Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains . . . which I read in one sitting, mesmerized by a Jewish pioneer spirit as strong and as compelling as that of her Christian ...
  19 hours ago

• Donniel Hartman speaks to teachers from Be’eri program – 2.7.09

  
  Shalom Hartman Institute ????? ?? ???? ???? ????? — Authority: 125
  Donniel Hartman speaks to teachers from the Be’eri program of Judaic enrichment for secular Israeli high schools at an open house at Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, 2 July 2009Posted in Donniel Hartman, Education, Hartman Institute, israel, jewish, lectures, Videos, ירושלים, לימוד Tagged: ...
  5 days ago

• Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 117
  Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought Moshe Idel 336 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4130-3 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in the Jewish Culture and Contexts series In Old World, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and ...
  6 days ago

• Book review: Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire

  
  Indiana University Press blog — Authority: 124
  "This book provides a sense of the dynamism of Jewish cultural life, broadly defined, in what was the world’s largest Jewish community whose descendants established American Jewry." — Jewish Book World
  6 days ago

• Book review: The Nazi Ancestral Proof

  
  Indiana University Press blog — Authority: 124
  "Ehrenreich tells a fascinating story, and his book is a model of patient research and meticulous archival investigation. ...a major contribution to the intellectual and social history of Nazism." —Daniel Gasman, American Historical Review
  2 weeks ago

• The accidental chosen people

  
  The Do It Yourself Scholar — Authority: 116
  In the ancient Near East there wasn’t much of a difference between a tribal community and a religious community. Every ethnic community had its own ethnic god.Thus, argues Reuven Firestone in his lecture Who Are the Real Chosen People? The Meaning of Chosenness in Judaism Christianity and Islam (website, iTunes, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Interview with Elliot R. Wolfson on his new book “Open Secret”

  
  Columbia University Press — Authority: 123
  Mixed Multitudes, a blog on MyJewishLearning, has posted an interview with Elliot Wolfson, most recently the author of Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson.In the interview Wolfson answers questions about Jewish mysticism and philosophy and the relationship ...
  4 weeks ago

• Exploring Religion, Shaped by the Enlightenment

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 121
  By PETER S. STEINFELS Why can’t religion and the Enlightenment be friends? What’s that, you say? They were friends? Why didn’t anyone tell us? Well, David Sorkin has. A professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin , he argues in a new study that religion and the Enlightenment were ...
  4 weeks ago

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