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Moses Dar'ī of Alexandria was the product of both Arab courtly culture and Jewish civilization, and certainly the most gifted poet of medieval Karaism. This collection of his work reflects the tension and blend between his two contrasting backgrounds.
€93.00$120.00
The inventory presents a survey of extant Yiddish sources in Dutch archives outside of Amsterdam. Most material was hitherto unknown. The inventory aims to stimulate new research on West-Yiddish and the history of Ashkenazi Jewry in The Netherlands.
€100.00$130.00
An exploration of the phenomenon of angelic vice regency in Late Antiquity. It comparatively examines figures from Judaism, Mandaeism, and Gnosticism, shedding new light, in particular, on the Jewish angel Metatron and the Mandaean light-being Abathur.
€140.00$181.00
In this book Robert Bonfil provides a detailed historical introduction and new English translation of the family chronicle of Ahima'az, one of the most important sources of medieval Jewish life in Western Europe composed in Capua, Italy in 1054.
€140.00$181.00
This detailed introduction to the text Tiferet Bachurim (The Glory of Youth), written in the mid-seventeenth century in Ferrara, Italy, discusses the profound changes in Jewish Italian communities regarding sexuality, control of the juvenile body, and the role of Kabbalah in The Jewish Counter ...
€274.00$355.00
The first study on the subject, this is a bibliographical work on individual tractates published in the first half of the eighteenth-century, and the circumstances of their publication. Included are numerous reproductions of title and representative pages.
€143.00$185.00
16 studies abouth various aspects of one of the most ancient, peculiar Jewish communities who that has lived for more than 2000 years in the Yemen. This community constitutes a highly important component of medern Jewish life in terms of culture and art.
€308.00$399.00
The edition and linguistic, palaeographic and legal analysis of 65 marriage documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza shed a unique light on the socio-economic and intellectual history of the mediaeval Karaite Jews who wrote them.
€167.00$216.00
Exploring the link between German biblical interpretation and anti-Semitism, this book is a fresh, comprehensive study of leading German exegetes, concluding that although Nazism brought anti-Semitic exegesis to a head, age-old thought structures provided powerful legitimation for oppression.