Catálogo de libros: Judaísmo

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  • Haggadah Yehi Ohr
    Avi Weiss
    The Passover Haggadah is a microcosm of Jewish history and Jewish theology. In remembering the Exodus from Egypt, we retell the story of a God who loves and cares, and of our people’s commitment to partner with God to better ourselves and the world.In this new original commentary, Rav Avi unlocks the structure of the Haggadah, from its recounting of the past redemption from Egy...
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    35,63 €

  • Music’s Making
    Michael Cherlin
    A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.As a work of musical theory, or meta-theory, Music’s Making draws extensively on work done in philosophy and literary criticism in addition to the scholarship of musicologists and music theorists. Music’s Making is divided into two large parts. The first half d...
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    44,44 €

  • The Body Leads the Way
    Mary Lane Potter
    In this collection of essays, Mary Lane Potter combines the best of academic acumen, spiritual insight, and personal experience to reveal the transformative liminal experiences that await us everywhere. She reflects on the deep patterns of liminality and the ways in which ritual and imagination give shape and direction to its passages. She shifts reflection on the great in-betw...
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    22,54 €

  • Come Now, Let Us Reason Together
    Mark D. Friedman
    This volume seeks to correct a widespread fundamental misconception about Judaism. Because the ultra-Orthodox follow ancient Jewish traditions and strictly adhere to halakhah (Jewish law), it is commonly believed that the repressive, rigidly hierarchical norms and social institutions that characterize their communities represent authentic Judaism. This view is profoundly mistak...
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    30,83 €

  • Come Now, Let Us Reason Together
    Mark D. Friedman
    This volume seeks to correct a widespread fundamental misconception about Judaism. Because the ultra-Orthodox follow ancient Jewish traditions and strictly adhere to halakhah (Jewish law), it is commonly believed that the repressive, rigidly hierarchical norms and social institutions that characterize their communities represent authentic Judaism. This view is profoundly mistak...
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    18,35 €

  • Rabbinism and Politics in Religious Zionism
    Aharon Kampinsky
    The book examines the relationship between the rabbinate and politics in religious Zionism during the early years of the State of Israel and discusses a number of dilemmas encountered by the rabbis at that time. ...
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    157,09 €

  • Emerging Seventh Party System
    Arthur L. Finkle
    The two-party system is based on laws, party rules, and customs. Several other parties also operate in the U.S. and occasionally have a member elected to local office. The need to win popular support in a republic led to the American invention of voter-based political parties in the 1790s. Americans were especially innovative in devising new campaign techniques that linked publ...
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    52,31 €

  • Frozen Chosen
    Arthur L. Finkle
    Canadian Jews numbered 240,000 in the 2001 census. In 2011, the Greater Toronto Area is home to 188,710 Jews. Montreal and Toronto are home to 80-85-% of Canadian Jews. The first Jews immigrated to Canada in the 1750s. They, too, had to compromise their Jewish identity to gain entrance into the Americas. Canada was under the rule of the French colonizers. The Colonizers banned ...
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    47,79 €

  • US Jews
    Sergio DellaPergola
    This book offers an original and unprecedented in-depth analysis of the demography and identity American Jewry. It discusses crucially important issues for the understanding of the contemporary status, with an adequate historical background - which often lacks in much research work. The volume consists of both brand new chapters and partly relies on several scholarly works in t...
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    235,51 €

  • A Kabbalistic Universe
    Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi
    A Kabbalistic Universe is about how and why Existence came into being. It sets out the general scheme of the four Worlds of Emanation, Creation, Formation and Action and heir various archangelic, angelic, demonic and organic inhabitants. Drawing upon ancient, medieval and modern material this book brings the Kabbalistic tradition up to date so that the current generation can pe...
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    28,82 €

  • A Kabbalistic Universe
    Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi
    A Kabbalistic Universe is about how and why Existence came into being. It sets out the general scheme of the four Worlds of Emanation, Creation, Formation and Action and heir various archangelic, angelic, demonic and organic inhabitants. Drawing upon ancient, medieval and modern material this book brings the Kabbalistic tradition up to date so that the current generation can pe...
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    34,38 €

  • Numbers
    William Wynn Westcott
    'SEVEN years have passed since this essay was written, and theMSS. pages have been lent to many friends and students ofmystic lore and occult meanings. It is only at the earnest requestof these kindly critics that I have consented to publish thisvolume. The contents are necessarily of a fragmentary character,and have been collected from an immense number of sources;the original...
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    33,33 €

  • The Dybbuk
    Morris M. Faierstein
    A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.The Dybbuk is the first comprehensive study of the historical and kabbalistic sources of the dybbuk phenomenon, from the first recorded case of dybbuk possession in Safed in 1571 onward. Dybbuk possession differs from possession by demons or Satan. Its origin is in t...
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    44,74 €

  • The Life of the Soul
    Offers a comprehensive and nuanced treatment on the topic of reincarnation in Judaism, covering a wide range of kabbalistic and philosophical sources.The Life of the Soul surveys the wide-ranging theories Jewish mystics have offered to the vexing question - what precisely transpires after we die? A common element in their theories is that human life is a part of a larger ecosys...
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    126,39 €

  • Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity
    Georges Tamer
    Unveils the profound influence of medieval Islamic philosophy on the thought of Leo Strauss.This study examines the impact of the medieval Muslim philosophers al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and Ibn Rushd (Averroes) on Leo Strauss. Through meticulous source analysis, Georges Tamer critically evaluates Strauss’s interpretation of their works. Furthermore, he explores how Islamic ...
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    126,67 €

  • Zionism and Jewish Culture
    Yitzhak Conforti / Jessica Setbon
    Zionism and Jewish Culture offers a fresh cultural perspective on Zionism, highlighting the dominant role of pre-modern Jewish culture on the modern Jewish national movement. The book investigates the history, politics and Zionist vision of the pre-state period. These issues are still relevant, thus enabling a deeper understanding of Zionism and Israel today. ...
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    185,44 €

  • Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy
    Charles H. T. Lesch
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    84,42 €

  • Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy
    Charles H. T. Lesch
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    27,38 €

  • Anti-Semitism at the Limit
    Benjamin B. Strosberg
    In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about Jewishness, which has historically served as a limit case for central social categories such as outsider, religion, race, gender, and nation. Dr. Strosberg draws on Zygmunt Bauman’s concept ...
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    219,04 €

  • Jewish History, Jewish Religion, the Weight of 3000 Years
    Israël Shahak
    The first difficulty is that, over the last one hundred and fifty years, the term ’Jew’ has come to be used in two very different ways. To understand this, let’s imagine ourselves back in 1780. At that time, the meaning of this term for everyone coincided with what the Jews themselves considered to be the constitutive basis of their own identity.This identity was essentially re...
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    23,13 €

  • The Jewish State
    Theodor Herzl
    A foundational text for the Zionist movement, The Jewish State presents Theodor Herzl’s vision for a Jewish homeland as a solution to anti-Semitism and diaspora challenges. Herzl outlines a practical and political path toward the establishment of a safe and sovereign state for Jews, exploring social, economic, and logistical questions. This work remains essential for understand...
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    24,68 €

  • The Jewish State
    Theodor Herzl
    A foundational text for the Zionist movement, The Jewish State presents Theodor Herzl’s vision for a Jewish homeland as a solution to anti-Semitism and diaspora challenges. Herzl outlines a practical and political path toward the establishment of a safe and sovereign state for Jews, exploring social, economic, and logistical questions. This work remains essential for understand...
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    14,51 €

  • Stories from the Rabbis
    Abram S. Isaacs / Abram SIsaacs
    Exploring timeless teachings through engaging narratives, Stories from the Rabbis shares parables and lessons from Jewish tradition, shedding light on themes of faith, wisdom, and ethics. Each story offers insight into rabbinical thought and Jewish values, inviting readers to reflect on moral questions and the human experience. Isaacs’ collection is a window into cultural and s...
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    16,41 €

  • Characterization in Midrash and Medieval Jewish Bible Commentaries
    Sivan Nir
    Sivan Nir meticulously examines the reimaginings of the biblical figures Balaam, Jeremiah, and Esther in a wide range of Jewish texts from second-century rabbinic sources to medieval Jewish biblical commentaries. Nir’s unique approach analyzes the continuity, or lack thereof, that emerges when characterization is viewed in relation to and in contrast with its cross cultural con...
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    76,12 €

  • Jewish Options
    Arnold Dashefsky / Ira M. Sheskin / J.Alan Winter
    This book offers an examination of an expanding set of options for being Jewish in contemporary American society. It examines the evolution of Jewish identity across five epochs of Jewish civilization as well as the transformation of the American Jewish experience across four centuries. In addition, an institutional history and a geographic, demographic, and religious profile o...
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    222,36 €

  • Nabonidus and the Queen of Sheba
    Janet Tyson
    Befitting her name, this book offers seven unique perspectives on the visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon in 1 Kings 10. Although each theory stands alone and can be taken as a starting point for further investigation, the overall implication is that the Queen’s visit was not intended as a chronicle of some illustrious Arabian ruler seeking the king’s wisdom but rather, it w...
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    20,10 €

  • Arabian Sinai
    Janet Tyson
    The last King of Babylon, Nabonidus (556-539 BCE), did not fade into obscurity after the Persian conquest in 539 BCE. He led a small contingent of exiles, along with his own family and supporters, to Jerusalem. He did not remain there but continued on 'home' to Tayma, in Northwestern Arabia. His journey into Egypt was to secure a relic that would eventually ’change the world’. ...
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    30,61 €

  • Judaic Baptism
    James W. Dale
    In the 19th century, Dr. James W. Dale, a Presbyterian minister, embarked on a scholarly project that proved to be the most exhaustive study ever undertaken on the word 'baptism.' Aiming at a contextual understanding of the word, Dr. Dale meticulously examined its use in a wide range of historical documents, and his analysis is a masterpiece of lexicographical scholarship. ...
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    58,57 €

  • Subversive Principles
    David H. Aaron
    Avot, a tractate in the Mishnah (c. 220 CE), is the single most studied and commented upon Jewish text outside the Hebrew Bible. Commonly published as a stand-alone volume with the title Pirke Avot (''Chapters of the Fathers'' or ''Ethics of the Fathers''), Avot is also included in Jewish prayer books to encourage group and home study in every form of Judaism. A number of schol...
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    59,19 €

  • Judaic Baptism
    James W. Dale
    In the 19th century, Dr. James W. Dale, a Presbyterian minister, embarked on a scholarly project that proved to be the most exhaustive study ever undertaken on the word 'baptism.' Aiming at a contextual understanding of the word, Dr. Dale meticulously examined its use in a wide range of historical documents, and his analysis is a masterpiece of lexicographical scholarship.Dr. D...
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    36,88 €


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