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0926-2261

Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

Edited by David S. Katz, Tel-Aviv University

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1568-5004

Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Edited by Giuseppe Veltri (Leopold-Zunz-Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg)

Studies in Jewish History and Culture aims to present a wide spectrum of studies that cover Jewish history, society, and culture from antiquity to the present. The series seeks to highlight diversity within Judaism as well as the interaction between Jewish and non-Jewish civilizations. ...

€140.00$181.00

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JSJS

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119

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9789004158566

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Heavenly Tablets

Edited by Lynn LiDonnici & Andrea Lieber

This volume brings together a wide range of international scholars of Ancient Judaism, whose essays explore various issues surrounding Jewish communities and Jewish identity in late antiquity. The essays are organized into three sections: Interpreting Ritual Texts, Mapping Diaspora Identities, ...

€212.00$275.00

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9789004192454

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Between Scylla and Charybdis

Shlomo Simonsohn

The history of the Jews in Sicily covers a period of over a thousand years, from Antiquity to the Expulsion, based on some 40,000 archival records, most of them hitherto unpublished. It illustrates the political, legal, economic, social and religious vicissitudes of the Jewish minority and its ...

€140.00$181.00

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9789004139053

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Picturing Yiddish

Diane Wolfthal

This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books from sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs, and four printed volumes - two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables.

€163.00$211.00

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9789004133044

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Marriage Rituals Italian Style

Roni Weinstein. Translated by Batya Stein.

The book describes the three major phases of the marriage ritual (matchmaking, betrothal, the wedding), and presents thematic issues, such as the youth sub-culture, gift exchanges, the honor ethos. It is based on a wealth of primary documents, mainly manuscripts, in various literary genres.

€144.00$187.00

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ISBN13:

9789004129726

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L'Antisémitisme Éclairé

Textes recueillis et édités par Ilana Y. Zinguer and Sam W. Bloom

With France as its focal point, the volume also contains essays that treat various perceptions of Jews during the same period in England, Germany, and Italy. Interdisciplinary in nature, this collection treats the Jewish question from historical, literary, and sociological angles.

€88.00$121.00

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SJHC

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ISBN13:

9789004217706

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Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition

Edited and with an Introduction by Yehuda Halper. Preface written by Eva Brann

Aryeh Motzin’s extraordinary essays on the encounter between Jewish tradition and philosophy are collected in this volume. Motzkin examines how medieval Jewish thinkers understood Plato and Aristotle, and how these medieval thinkers were, in turn, understood by modern Jewish thinkers.

€184.00$251.00

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SJHC

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Available: Print on Demand

ISBN13:

9789004183247

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Studies on Steinschneider

Edited by Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal

The present volume is devoted to the study of the life and work of Moritz (Moshe) Steinschneider (1816-1907). It shows that far from being a “mere bibliographer,” Steinschneider pursued a precise scientific agenda. This is a noteworthy contribution to our understanding of the project of the ...