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Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz
In the urban communities of medieval Germany and northern France, the beliefs, observances, and practices of Jews allowed them to create and define their communities on their own terms as well as in relation to the surrounding Christian society. Although medieval Jewish texts were written by a learned elite, the laity also observed many religious rituals as part of their everyday life. InPracticing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz, Elisheva Baumgarten asks how Jews, especially those who were not learned, expressed their belonging to a minority community and how their convictions and deeds were made apparent to both their Jewish peers and the Christian majority.
Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenazprovides a social history of religious practice in context, particularly with regard to the ways Jews and Christians, separately and jointly, treated their male and female members. Medieval Jews often shared practices and beliefs with their Christian neighbors, and numerous notions and norms were appropriated by one community from the other. By depicting a dynamic interfaith landscape and a diverse representation of believers, Baumgarten offers a fresh assessment of Jewish practice and the shared elements that composed the piety of Jews in relation to their Christian neighbors.
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Mémoires juives de l'Oriental marocain
Ce livre est une évocation illustrée, réaliste et enthousiaste du patrimoine culturel judéo-marocain de lʹOriental, \"précisément cette particularité hébraïque qui constitue aujourdʹhui, ainsi que lʹa consacré la nouvelle Constitution du Royaume, lʹun des affluents séculaires de lʹidentité nationale.\" Premier du genre réalisé au Maroc, ce beau-livre marque ainsi une nouvelle rencontre, le dessein dʹune relecture des traces toujours vivantes dʹun passé commun, dont nous voulons honorer les moments heureux. Cʹest donc un témoignage qui interroge de façon inédite le vécu de lʹune des communautés les plus anciennes du Royaume, et sa relation à lʹautre. -- Publisher description.
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Jewish Culture and Creativity
Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the creative application of Prof. Fishbane’s thought and theology in contemporary Jewish life. The innovative scholarship represented in this volume offers critical new perspectives from antiquity to contemporary Judaism and will serve as a stimulus for new directions in and beyond the field of Jewish studies.
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4 3 2 1 : a novel
\"Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Laws of the Spirit
The compelling vision of religious life and practice found in Hasidic sources has made it the most enduring and successful Jewish movement of spiritual renewal of all time. In this book, Ariel Evan Mayse grapples with one of Hasidism's most vexing questions: how did a religious movement known for its radical views about immanence, revelation, and the imperative to serve God with joy simultaneously produce strict adherence to the structures and obligations of Jewish law? Exploring the movement from its emergence in the mid-1700s until 1815, Mayse argues that the exceptionality of Hasidism lies not in whether its leaders broke or upheld rabbinic norms, but in the movement's vivid attempt to rethink the purpose of Jewish ritual and practice. Rather than focusing on the commandments as law, he turns to the methods and vocabulary of ritual studies as a more productive way to reckon with the contradictions and tensions of this religious movement as well as its remarkable intellectual vitality. Mayse examines the full range of Hasidic texts from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, from homilies and theological treatises to hagiography, letters, and legal writings, reading them together with contemporary theories of ritual. Arguing against the notion that spiritual integrity requires unshackling oneself from tradition, Laws of the Spirit is a sweeping attempt to rethink the meaning and significance of religious practice in early Hasidism.
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Ethics at the Center
Ethics at the Center culls the best of Rabbi Elliot N.
Dorff's pioneering thinking in Jewish ethics over nearly five
decades. Dorff shows that our response to moral issues depends
ultimately on our conceptions of the nature of human beings and
God; how Jewish law, theology, prayer, history, and community
should also define and motivate Jewish responses to moral issues;
and how the honorable and divergent stances of Western philosophy
and other religions about moral living shed light on Judaism's
distinctive standpoints. From there Dorff applies Judaism's ethics
to real life: abortion post- Roe v. Wade , sexual
orientation and human dignity, avoiding harm in communication,
playing violent or defamatory video games, modern war ethics,
handling donations of ill-gotten gain after the fact. In conclusion
he explores how Jewish family and community, holidays and rituals,
theology, study, and law have moral import as well. Dorff's
personal introduction to each chapter reflects on why and when he
wrote its contents, its continuing relevance, and if-and if so,
how-he would now change what he wrote earlier. Readers will
experience not only his evolving ethical thought but many facets of
the person and the Jew that Dorff is today.
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Spinoza : a life
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of Spinoza's life takes the reader into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with Spinoza's exile from Judaism, into the midst of the tumultuous political, social, intellectual, and religious world of the young Dutch Republic. This new edition of Steven Nadler's biography, winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award for biography and translated into a dozen languages, is enhanced by exciting new archival discoveries about his family background, his youth, and the various philosophical, political, and religious contexts of his life and works. There is more detail about his family's business and communal activities, about his relationships with friends and correspondents, and about the development of his writings, which were so scandalous to his contemporaries. -- Provided by publisher.
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Halakhic Man
National Jewish Book Award Winner Halakhic
Man is the classic work of modern Jewish and religious thought
by the twentieth century's preeminent Orthodox Jewish theologian
and talmudic scholar, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. It is a
profound excursion into religious psychology and phenomenology, a
pioneering attempt at a philosophy of halakhah, and a stringent
critique of mysticism and romantic religion. This 40th anniversary
edition features this new scholarly apparatus: • A translator's
preface tracing the book's reception and evolving influence • A
translator's introduction shedding light on the heart of
Soloveitchik's argument • A list of errata to the original text •
Translator's annotations explaining Soloveitchik's references and
underlying teachings • A glossary of key terms • A bibliography of
works cited in this edition • Two indexes: an index of biblical and
rabbinic sources and an index of names and subjects incorporating
the edition's full content.
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