Heidegger, History and the Holocaust is an important contribution to the longstanding debate concerning Martin Heidegger's association with National Socialism. Although a difficult topic, this ambitious new work moves the entire debate on the Heidegger controversy forward. Follo…
""In this book Udi Aloni, causing a power fault in the ruling liberal attitude by way of short-circuiting different levels of ideology, art, and thought; rewrites the Oedipus myth and rejects liberal Zionism. Who but Aloni can combine the tremendous poetic power of creating new …
"In this book Udi Aloni, causing a power fault in the ruling liberal attitude by way of short-circuiting different levels of ideology, art, and thought; rewrites the Oedipus myth and rejects liberal Zionism. Who but Aloni can combine the tremendous poetic power of creating new m…
This collection of sophisticated, innovative essays looks at how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinkers within the Islamic world drew ideas and inspiration from outside the bounds of their own religious communities.
Coenen Snyder considers what the architecture and construction of nineteenth-century European synagogues reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. The process of claiming a Jewish space was a marker of acculturation but not full acceptance, she argues. The new ed…
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job's response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? This volume engages this question and offers new perspect…
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job's response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? This volume engages this question and offers new perspect…
Menahem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative who built a hasid…
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race nar…
PreÌ#x80;asentiert werden die Berliner "jeÌ#x80;udischen Salons" um 1800 anhand neuer Quellen als ebenso lebendiges wie fragiles kommunikatives Netz. Der Querschnitt durch die Salongesellschaft des Beispieljahres 1794/95 macht eine Geselligkeitskultur sichtbar, in der sehr versc…
Präsentiert werden die Berliner „jüdischen Salons" um 1800 anhand neuer Quellen als ebenso lebendiges wie fragiles kommunikatives Netz. Der Querschnitt durch die Salongesellschaft des Beispieljahres 1794/95 macht eine Geselligkeitskultur sichtbar, in der sehr verschiedene Orte z…
Präsentiert werden die Berliner „jüdischen Salons" um 1800 anhand neuer Quellen als ebenso lebendiges wie fragiles kommunikatives Netz. Der Querschnitt durch die Salongesellschaft des Beispieljahres 1794/95 macht eine Geselligkeitskultur sichtbar, in der sehr verschiedene Orte z…
Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust. Two Holocaust survivors whose work became uniquely successful in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, Grete Weil and …
Die ErzeÌ#x80;ahlung vom Auszug aus eÌ#x80;Agypten geheÌ#x80;ort zu den zentralen und feÌ#x80;ur die kollektive IdentiteÌ#x80;at Israels grundlegenden eÌ#x80;Uberlieferungen, die die gesamte alttestamentliche Literatur durchziehen. In hellenistisch-reÌ#x80;omischer Zeit erlebt d…
Die Erzählung vom Auszug aus Ägypten gehört zu den zentralen und für die kollektive Identität Israels grundlegenden Überlieferungen, die die gesamte alttestamentliche Literatur durchziehen. In hellenistisch-römischer Zeit erlebt die Exodusüberlieferung eine ›Renaissance‹ und prä…
The story of the Exodus from Egypt is one of the central traditions that are fundamental to the collective identity of Israel and permeate all of Old Testament literature. In the Hellenistic-Roman period, the Exodus tradition experienced a ›renaissance‹ and shaped contemporary l…
