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Jews And Urban Life

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 Recognises that throughout their history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities. Essays in this collection present examples from within the Jewish community itself, moving from the biblical period to the modern Israel.
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Jews And Urban Life

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 Recognises that throughout their history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities. Essays in this collection present examples from within the Jewish community itself, moving from the biblical period to the modern Israel.
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Jews And Gender

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 Features sixteen authors exploring the history and culture of the intersection of Judaism and gender from the biblical world to today. Topics include subversive readings of biblical texts; reappraisal of rabbinic theory and practice; women in mysticism, Chasidism, and Yiddish literature; and women in contemporary culture and politics.
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Next Year In Jerusalem - Exile And Return In Jewish History

by Leonard J. Greenspoon

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 Recognises that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times to today.
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Mishpachah - The Jewish Family In Tradition And In Transition

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 Through the studies brought together in this volume, more than a dozen scholars look at the Jewish family in wide variety of social, historical, religious, and geographical contexts. In the process, they explore both diverse and common features in the past and present, and they chart possible courses for Jewish families in the future.
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Jews And Gender

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 Features sixteen authors exploring the history and culture of the intersection of Judaism and gender from the biblical world to today. Topics include subversive readings of biblical texts; reappraisal of rabbinic theory and practice; women in mysticism, Chasidism, and Yiddish literature; and women in contemporary culture and politics.
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Is Judaism Democratic? - Reflections From Theory And Practice Throughout The Ages

by Leonard J. Greenspoon

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 As government by the people, democracy has always had its proponents as well as opponents. What forms of government have Jewish leaders, both with and without actual political power, favoured? This volume is required reading for anyone interested in how religion and politics have interacted, and continue to interact, in Judaism and among Jews.
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Of Levinas And Shakespeare - To See Another Thus

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 Scholars have used Levinas as a lens through which to view many authors and texts, fields of endeavor, and works of art. Yet no book-length work has brought this lens to bear in a sustained discussion of the works of Shakespeare. Comprising leading scholars in philosophy and literature, Of Levinas and Shakespeare is the firstbook-length work to treat both great thinkers.
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Olam Ha-Zeh V'Olam Ha-Ba - This World And The World To Come In Jewish Belief And Practice

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 Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and structured their lives in this world accordingly.
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Who Is A Jew? - Reflections On History, Religion, And Culture

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 The nature of Jewish identity and the controversies surrounding who can and cannot be described as a Jew are the focus of this collected work. Contributions range widely across time and geographical context, revealing interesting historical patterns.
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Jews In The Gym - Judaism, Sports And Athletics

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 For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in sports for more than two thousand years. The articles in this volume cover a wide chronological range; the range of athletes covered is equally broad; and essays raise a number of intriguing questions.
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Jews And Humor

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 What is â€œhumourâ€? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humour â€œJewishâ€? These are among the many queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this volume. Their observations, always apt and often witty, are expressed with a lightness of style and a depth of analysis that are appropriate to the many topics they cover.
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Rites Of Passage - How Today'S Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, And Commiserate

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 Scholars tend to call them 'rites of passage'. Most people prefer to speak of them as life cycle events or milestones. This volume offers fresh insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic as Karaism.
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Authority And Dissent In Jewish Life

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 Throughout the long history of Judaism, many individuals and groups have sought to wield authority on the basis of unique religious, social, familial, military, or political claims. Moving historically from the biblical period to modern-day Israel, this book discusses a range of those claims to authority from within the Jewish community itself.
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Mission Grafica - Reflecting A Community In Print

by Art Hazelwood

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Arborist Equipment (1pk Of 6) - A Guide To The Tools And Equipment Of Tree Maintenance And Removal

by Robert Shetterly

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Fat Chance

by Jude Lahaye

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Arboriculture & The Law

by Victor D. Merullo

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Mr. Tiggywiggle: A Tale Of Tails - A Tale Of Tails

by Van Wickle Walrath; Illustration: Mary Beth Morrison e Morrison Mary Beth Morrison

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Above The Gravel Bar - The Native Canoe Routes Of Maine

by Cook David S. Cook

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 <p>Above the Gravel Bar opens up a new way of seeing the Northeast as a vast network of waterways. With this book you can put your kayak/canoe in a nearby river or pond in Maine and travel prehistoric routes to campgrounds thousands of years old.</p>
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Doing Business In America - A Jewish History

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 "An annual review of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life."
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Representations Of Jews Through The Ages.

by David Hilfiker e Leonard Jay Greenspoon

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 The papers in this collection examine the ways in which Jews have been presented in photography, music, film, television, drama, literature and cultural mythology. The papers were delivered at Creighton University in 1995 as part of the eighth Annual Kluznick Symposium in Jewish Civilization.
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Fashioning Jews - Clothing, Culture And Commerce

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 Presents papers delivered at the 24th Annual Klutznick Harris Symposium, held in October 2011. The contributors look at all aspects of the intimate relationship between Jews and clothing, through case studies from ancient, medieval, recent, and contemporary history. Papers explore topics ranging from Jewish leadership in the textile industry, through the art of fashion in nineteenth-century Vienna, to the use of clothing as a badge of ethnic identity, in both secular and religious contexts.
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Wealth And Poverty In Jewish Tradition

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 Economic inequity is an issue of worldwide concern in the twenty-first century. Judaism has developed many perspectives, theoretical and practical, to explain and ameliorate the circumstances that produce serious economic disparity. This volume offers an accessible collection of articles that deal comprehensively with this phenomenon from a variety of approaches and perspectives.
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