Jewish

By Joyce Antler

Full of life essays investigating American Jewish women's photographs in pop culture.

By Josephus, Ralph Marcus

By Jurgita iau i nait -Verbickien and Larisa Lempertien, Jurgita Siauciunaite-Verbickiene, Larisa Lempertiene

During this quantity we announce fabrics of the foreign convention JEWISH area IN principal AND japanese EUROPE: DAY- TO- DAY heritage which happened in Vilnius, on 10-11 th may well, 2006. within the articles of preferred students and standpoint younger researchers the Jewish house is printed as assorted sorts of lifestyles and kin constructing within the wealthy context of urbanism, social lifestyles, relaxation, monetary expression, and coexistence with the non-Jewish international. Having passed through quite a few variations, the Jewish area has preserved its authenticity and individuality. within the complaints, the Jewish area is analyzed in a large chronological interval from the viewpoint of literature, heritage, structure, and social relationships. it really is worthy beginning this quantity for everybody who's attracted to technique of leisure, (sports, rest, events in cabaret), residing and taking part in social lifestyles, studying and writing of Jews in cities and shtetls of East Europe in throughout the 19 th and at the start of twentieth century.

By Cecil Roth

The ebook in its first Israeli variation is a set of Jewish artwork from antiquity till modernity, with illustrated essays.

By Richard Bauckham

This article provides a suite of stories which specialise in own eschatology within the Jewish and early Christian apocalypses. The apocalyptic culture, from its Jewish origins till the early center a long time, is studied as a continuing literary culture, during which either continuity of motifs and critical adjustments in realizing of lifestyles after demise should be charted. in addition to better-known apocalypses, a lot realization is given to these overlooked apocalypses which painting human future after loss of life intimately, akin to the "Apocalypse of Peter", the "Apocalypse of the Seven Heavens", the later apocalypses of Ezra, and the 4 apocalypses of the Virgin Mary. Relationships with Greco-Roman eschatology are explored, and a number of other chapters exhibit how particular New testomony texts are illuminated by means of shut wisdom of this custom of principles and pictures of the hereafter.

By Amelia M. Glaser

By Yohanan Cohen

By Association for Jewish studies

By Henry J. Tobias

During this first heritage of the Jews in New Mexico--from the colonial interval to the current day--the writer constantly ties the Jewish adventure to the evolution of the societies during which they lived and labored. The publication starts with one of many least identified yet such a lot attention-grabbing features of recent Mexico Jewry--the crypto-Jews who got here north to flee the Mexican Inquisition. within the 19th and 20th centuries, the tale is extra typical: German retailers settling in Las Vegas and Santa Fe after which coming to Albuquerque after the railroad arrived. to those debts the writer provides massive nuance and aspect, really at the position of Jews in smaller groups reminiscent of Roswell and Las Cruces in addition to their social lifestyles and spiritual perform in a frontier quarter. The dialogue of the 20 th century concentration relatively at the dynamics of Jewish improvement, and the ways that that approach differed in New Mexico.

By Martin Przybilski

This learn undertakes a primary (new) review of the intercultural courting of Jews and Christians among 1150 and 1500. Fragments of the move of Jewish motifs and fabrics into the Christian literature of the German center a while are proven, therefore rounding out our photo of medieval German literature during this vital element. The research makes an extra contribution to realizing the connection of Jews and Christians in the entire German-speaking components through the German heart a long time.