Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages (Katz Jacob)(Paperback)

Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages (Katz Jacob)(Paperback)

A new edition of Katz's study of European Jewish society at end of the Middle Ages. It taps into a rich source, the responsa literature of the Rabbinic establishment of the time, a time when self-governing communities of Jews dealt with their own civil and religious

Pursuit Of The Millennium - Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (Cohn Norman)(Paperback / softback)

The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. Drawing on a huge variety of contemporary sources, this unique and compelling book tells the story of those Millenarian fanaticisms of the Middle Ages and points to their persistence in the modern

A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry (Katz Jacob)(Paperback)

Eminent social historian Jacob Katz examines the rise and transformation of Jewish communal leadership in Central Europe. It is a story of fragmentation and polarization that sheds light on the tensions within the 19th-century Jewish community in Central Europe as it struggled to respond to the

Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism (Ravitzky Aviezer)(Paperback)

The Orthodox Jewish tradition affirms that Jewish exile will end with the coming of the Messiah. How, then, does Orthodoxy respond to the political realization of a Jewish homeland that is the State of Israel? In this cogent and searching study, Aviezer Ravitzky probes Orthodoxy's divergent

Philosophy in the Middle Ages - The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions(Paperback / softback)

Suez Crisis 1956: End of Empire and the Reshaping of the Middle East (Charlwood David)(Paperback)

A compelling short history of political events that led to the crisis and the military campaign itself from the perspectives of London, Washington and

Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870 (Katz Jacob)(Paperback)

Out of the Ghetto is an account of the developing interrelationship between the Jews and their Gentile environment unique in its breadth and objectivity. He presents the story of Jewish emancipation as a whole, from both Jewish and non-Jewish points of view. If the results of the Jewish

The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society (Rose Gillian)(Paperback)

The Broken Middle offers a startlingly original rethinking of the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects the anti-philosophy and anti-theory of post-modernity. Extending across the disciplines from philosophy to theology, Judaica, law, social and political theory, literary

Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (Emsley Clive)(Paperback)

Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. Through a consideration of the

A Modern History of the Jews: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Joffe Lawrence)(Paperback)

This in-depth history of the Jewish faith explores howJews have lived under Christianity and Islamic rule, survived centuries of anti-Semitism, life in the Diaspora, the Holocaust and the revival of Judaism today. In the19th century, mass migration to America coincided withthe rise of Zionism

Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages (Caciola Nancy Mandeville)(Paperback)

Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife, using the dead as a point of entry for thinking about the self, regeneration, and loss. These macabre preoccupations

Torah-TK (Jewish Publication Society Inc)(Paperback)

Read our customer guideThe Torah is the essence of Jewish tradition; it inspires each successive generation. The current JPS translation, based on classical and modern sources, is acclaimed for its fidelity to the ancient

Straight to the Heart of 1 and 2 Kings (Moore Phil)(Paperback)

These books were written at a moment of great crisis and confusion for the Jewish nation. They were written to reveal to them the story behind the story. The great disaster that has befallen God's people has come from God's own hand. So will restoration - both for them and for the Church today - if

The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton (Lavezzo Kathy)(Pevná vazba)

England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious blood libel was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. England also enforced legislation demanding

British Civic Society at the End of Empire: Decolonisation, Globalisation, and International Responsibility (Bocking-Welch Anna)(Paperback)

The end of the empire and the legacies of Britain's imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book shows how the international activities of civic associations in the 1960s can help us to understand the impact of decolonisation on the British public's

Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, Third Edition (Rosenwein Barbara H.)(Paperback)

The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean

The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism (Unterman Alan)(Paperback)

A comprehensive survey of the Jewish mystical tradition An indispensable guide to thousands of years of spiritual inquiry, The Kabbalistic Tradition features writings from a variety of literary forms-from the earliest biblical sources through twentieth-century studies-as well as practical

The Female Mystic Great Women Thinkers of the Middle Ages (Dickens Andrea Janelle)(Paperback)

The Middle Ages saw a flourishing of mysticism that was astonishing for its richness and distinctiveness. The medieval period was unlike any other period of Christianity in producing people who frequently claimed visions of Christ and Mary, uttered prophecies, gave voice to ecstatic experiences,

Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran (Sternfeld Lior B.)(Paperback)

Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the population numbered around 100,000; today about 25,000 Jews live in Iran. Between Iran and Zion offers the first history of this vibrant community over the course of the

Civilization of the Middle Ages (Cantor Norman F.)(Paperback)

Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new

Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism (Brossat Alain)(Paperback)

Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe

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 Other Friars: The Carmelite, Augustinian, Sack and Pied Friars in the Middle Ages (Andrews Frances)(Paperback)

In 1274 the Council of Lyons decreed the end of various 'new orders' of Mendicants which had emerged during the great push for evangelism and poverty in the thirteenth-century Latin Church. The Carmelites and Austin friars were allowed a stay of execution (the Franciscans and Dominicans were

Medieval Bodies - Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Hartnell Jack)(Paperback / softback)

A major new talent unveils a glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick