The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity (Freedman Jonathan)(Paperback)

The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity (Freedman Jonathan)(Paperback)

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and literature, philosophic pessimism, and an interest

The End of Jewish Modernity (Traverso Enzo)(Paperback)

Jewish modernity flourished between the age of Enlightenment and World War II--and in fact was a major driver of intellectual, scientific, social, literary, and artistic progress in that period. But the age of Jewish modernity is over. That's the argument that historian Enzo Traverso mounts in this

The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary (Garfinkel Eli L.)(Paperback)

The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary shows Jews of all ages and backgrounds that the Jewish people's most significant book is not dusty and irrelevant but an eternally sacred text wholly pertinent to our modern lives. Designed to keep the attention of all readers, each lively essay is both

The Jews in the Caribbean (Gerber Jane S.)(Paperback)

The Portuguese Jewish diaspora was born out of a double tragedy: the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and the forced conversion/expulsion of the Jews from Portugal in 1497. The potent combination of expulsion, Inquisition, and crypto-Judaism left people neither wholly Jewish nor wholly

Being Jewish Today: Confronting the Real Issues (Bayfield Tony)(Paperback)

This is a book which understands and faces the impact of modernity on the Jewish community today. Being Jewish Today gives an account of both the journey of a particular British Jew and the journey of millions of women and men through today's perplexing and difficult world. With honesty and

Honey from the Rock: Sixteen Jews Find the Sweetness of Christ (Schoeman Roy)(Paperback)

Roy Schoeman, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, and best-selling author of Salvation Is From The Jews, once again shows the clear links between Judaism and Catholicism in these inspiring stories of sixteen Jews who became fulfilled Jews, as Schoeman says, through their spiritual journeys to the

The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha (Klawans Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Building on the success of the Jewish Annotated New Testament (JANT) and the Jewish Study Bible (JSB), Oxford University Press now proceeds to complete the trilogy with the Jewish Annotated Apocrypha (JAA). The books of the Apocrypha were virtually all composed by Jewish writers in the Second

Britain's Jews in the First World War (Kitching Paula)(Paperback)

This book tells the story of the Jewish community, of its individuals and its groups that contributed to the First World War from London. It will describe the experiences of some of those that served and fought; of the impact the war had on the community and its members; and explore some of the

Tsimtsum and Modernity (No Contributor)(Pevná vazba)

By focusing on the Jewish textual traditions the book series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts examines both the continuity of a tradition through its transmission of canonical, classical and contemporary texts, as well as the ways that a tradition must continuously adapt itself to respond

A real case against the jews (Ravage Marcus Eli)(Paperback)

One of them points out the full depth of their guilt. Written by a Jewish author and originally published in The Century Magazine in January 1928. Volume 115 - Number 3 pages 346-350. This article asserts that if Whites understood the depths to which Jews control our countries and their

The Jewish Phenomenon: Seven Keys to the Enduring Wealth of a People (Silbiger Steven)(Pevná vazba)

Spielberg, Brin, Dell, Seinfeld-phenomenally successful . . . and Jewish. Why have Jews risen to the top of the business and professional world in numbers staggeringly out of proportion to their percentage of the American population? Steven Silbiger has the answer. Based on the author's synthesis

The Jewish Book of Why (Kolatch Alfred J.)(Paperback)

Why do Jews eat gefilte fish?Why is a glass broken at the end of a Jewish wedding ceremony?Why must the chapter of curses in the Torah be read quickly in a low voice?Why are shrimp and lobster not kosher?Why do Jews fast on Yom Kippur?Why are some Matzot square while others are round? If you've

The Tailors of Tomaszow: A Memoir of Polish Jews (Chernoff Rena Margulies)(Paperback)

Seven decades after the Nazis annihilated the Jewish community of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, comes a gripping eyewitness narrative told by one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, as well as through first-hand accounts of other Tomaszow survivors. This unique communal memoir presents a

When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation (Fredriksen Paula)(Paperback)

A compelling account of Christianity's Jewish beginnings, from one of the world's leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a

Second Dedalus Book of Decadence - The Black Feast(Paperback / softback)

The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of

Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs (Freedman Harry)(Pevná vazba)

A biography of Louis Jacobs, rabbi, theologian and author of the highly controversial book on Jewish thought and religion, We Have Reason to Believe Louis Jacobs was Britain's most gifted Jewish scholar. A Talmudic genius, outstanding teacher and accomplished author, cultured and easy-going, he was

Being Jewish Today: Confronting the Real Issues (Bayfield Tony)(Pevná vazba)

A Reform rabbi's nuanced perspective on the impact of modernity on the Jewish community today. In a world where anti-semitism is on the rise, the Jewish community is under threat throughout the world. With far-right governments being elected in Poland, Hungary and Austria, the rhetoric has dreadful

Dedalus Book of Decadence - Moral Ruins(Paperback / softback)

The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of

Bohemia’s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century - Jindřich Toman - e-kniha

eBook: This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the “quiet” decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of time in Bohemian Jewish history. Using a myriad of sources, including travelers’ accounts, poems, essays, short stories, guides, and newspaper

The Politics of Aesthetics (Rancire Jacques)(Paperback)

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming aesthetics from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranci re reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the

The Aesthetics of Environment (Berleant Arnold)(Paperback)

Environmental aesthetics explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that environment is fully integrated and continuous with us, this book explores the aesthetic dimensions of the human-environment continuum in both theoretical

Art of Decadence - European Fantasy Art of the Fin-De-Siecle (Unno Hiroshi)(Paperback / softback)

Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives (Skinner Patricia)(Paperback)

Britain's medieval Jewish community arrived with the Normans in 1066 and was expelled from the country in 1290. This is the first time in forty years that its life has been comprehensively examined for a student and general readership. Beginning with an introduction setting the medieval British

Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (Jasanoff Sheila)(Paperback)

Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public