Judaism

When Gilya Gerda Schmidt met him in 1986, Cantor Heiser had spent forty-six of his eighty-one years as a US citizen and was well-acquainted with mo...

Although the 'Israeli case' of bioethics has been well documented, this book offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics that is a milestone ...

Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of the twenti...

Talmudic legislation prescribed penalty for a Jew to testify in a non-Jewish court, against a fellow Jew, to benefit a gentile - for breach of a du...

Once referred to by the New York Times as the Israeli Faulkner, A. B. Yehoshuas fiction invites an assessment of Israels Jewish inheritance and the...

This book is a scholarly examination of the political thought of Rabbi Meir (Maharam) of Rothenburg, the most important thirteenth century German R...

This collection of leading scholars presents reflections on both wisdom as a general concept throughout history and cultures, as well as the contes...

A political crisis erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics, and a Jewish insider goes rogue, determined to save her people at all cost...

This book analyses religion and change in relation to music within the context of contemporary progressive Judaism. It argues that music plays a ce...

This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in contemporary Palestinian and...

In recent decades there has been a rising interest among scholars of Hinduism and Judaism in engaging in the comparative studies of these ancient t...

The urban origins of American Judaism began with daily experiences of Jews, their responses to opportunities for social and physical mobility as we...

Der Sammelband lenkt den Blick erstmals konsequent auf Frontos späte Briefbücher. Ziel ist ein Neuansatz gegenüber der Forschung, die Frontos Brief...

In 1862, in the only instance of a Jewish expulsion in America, General Ulysses S. Grant banished Jewish citizens from the region under his militar...