Judaism for Everyone : Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faith. by Boteach, Shmuel

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A Jewish Life on Three Continents : the Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden. by Weissbach, Lee

Table of Contents: “…The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden: An Introduction; A Note on Translation and Editing; A Note on References; Acknowledgments; Menachem Mendel Frieden's Apologia; My Father's Family; My Mother's Family; My Father's House; Me and My Youth; My Entry into Heder; On My Way through Yeshivot; Passover and the Holiday Cycle; More Yeshiva Studies; My Studies with Rabbis; Matchmakers and Marriage; America; I Found the Best Woman; My Journey to the Land of Israel and My Early Activities There; The Work of Americans in the Land of Israel and My Role in It; More on Life in the Land of Israel.…”
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Religious confessions and the sciences in the sixteenth century

Table of Contents: “…Kottek -- Science and religious hermeneutics : the "philosophy" of Rabbi Loew of Prague / Giuseppe Veltri -- The relevance of geography for the Jewish religion / Johann Maier.…”
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Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto : writing our history

Table of Contents: “…Kaplan -- Charcoal and watercolor sketches (1939-42) / Gela Seksztajn -- The little smuggler / Henryka Łazowert -- Hershek / Stepania Gradzińska -- Song of hunger and songs of the cold / Yitzhak Katzenelson -- From Holy fire / Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira -- From the Notebooks and diary of the great deportation / Abraham Lewin -- Last testament / Israel Lichtenstein -- What can I possibly say and ask for at this moment? …”
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On Leibniz by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Leibniz on Possible Worlds -- Contingentia Mundi : Leibniz on the World's Contingency -- Leibniz on Intermonadic Relations -- Leibniz and the Plurality of Space-Time Frameworks -- Leibniz and the Concept of a System -- Leibniz and Issues of Eternal Recurrence -- Leibnizian Neo-Platonism and Rational Mechanics -- Leibniz and the World's Improvability -- The Epistemology of Inductive Reasoning in Leibniz -- Leibniz, Keynes, and the Rabbis -- Leibniz and Socialized Medicine -- The Contributions of the Paris Period (1672-1676) to Leibniz's Metaphysics -- Leibniz Finds a Niche (1676-1677) -- Leibniz Visits Vienna (1712-1714) -- Leibniz Crosses the Atlantic -- Leibniz and American Philosophy -- Leibniz and Cryptography -- Leibniz's Machina Deciphratoria : A Seventeenth-Century Proto-Enigma Machine -- Process Philosophy and Monadological Metaphysics -- Was Leibniz Ennobled? …”
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Between Jewish tradition and modernity : rethinking an old opposition : essays in honor of David Ellenson

Table of Contents: “…Caring for an intermarried Jew by converting his partner: Rabbi Uzziel's earliest responsum on Giyur (Salonica, c. 1922) / Zvi Zohar -- Gaining moral guidance from the Jewish tradition: four examples to test David Ellenson's approach and mine / Elliot N. …”
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L.A. Mohel by Bezmozgis, David, 1973-

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The ethics of fracking

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Jewish ideas and the American founders. Episode 8, The home we build together

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Jewish ideas and the American founders. Episode 6, Continue to water them with the dews of heaven

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Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature : From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew. by Biberman, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 'His stones, his daughter, and his ducats': The Jew-Devil, the Jew-Sissy and the Theo-Sexual Matrix -- 2 'Madam Rabbi': Representations of Jewish Women in English Renaissance Drama -- 3 'By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men': Donne, Milton and the Rise of the Jew-Sissy -- 4 'She proving false, the next I took to wife': Divorce Law and Violence in Jonson, Cary and Milton -- 5 'He is imitating nobody, and he is inimitable': T.S. …”
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The radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan by Scult, Mel

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Paradise now : essays on early Jewish and Christian mysticism

Table of Contents: “…Sanders -- The emrgence of the mystical traditions of the merkabah / Rachel Elior -- The ancient Jewish apocalypses and the hekhalot literature / James Davila -- Rabbi Ishmael's priestly genealogy in hekhalot literature / Ra'anan S. …”
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Jewish faith and modern science : on the death and rebirth of Jewish philosophy by Samuelson, Norbert M., 1936-

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Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales. by Schwartz, Howard

Table of Contents: “…The Princess on the Glass MountainThe Wonderful Healing Leaves; The Princess with Golden Hair; The Enchanted Journey; The Magic Mirror of Rabbi Adam; The King's Dream; The Boy Israel and the Witch; The Lost Princess; The Prince Who Was Made of Precious Gems; The Water Palace; The Pirate Princess; The Golden Bird; The Imprisoned Princess; The Exiled Princess; The Underground Palace; The City of Luz; Sources; Glossary.…”
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Spirituality and ageing

Table of Contents: “…Crampsey SJ""; ""Harvesting a Lifetime Jenny Goodman""; ""Sageing in the Light of Death Rabbi Zalman Schachter- Shalomi""; ""Death and the Spirituality of Ageing Penelope Wilcock""…”
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Consolation : the spiritual journey beyond grief by Lamm, Maurice

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The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context. by Lightstone, Jack N.

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Life in Translation. by Reisenberger, Azila Talit

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Authority

Table of Contents: “…Prophets -- Chapter 6. Rabbis and Sages -- Chapter 7. Controversy and Dissent -- Chapter 8. …”
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Next year I will know more : literacy and identity among young Orthodox women in Israel by El-Or, Tamar

Table of Contents: “…The Last Modernists: A Class in the Philosophy of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook ""; ""IV: Anthropology and Literacyâ€?…”
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Moses Mendelssohn : writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible by Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786

Table of Contents: “…Lavater's dedication -- Open letter to Lavater -- From "counter-reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis" -- Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October 1773 -- Letter to "a man of rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar) -- From the preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum -- "The search for light and right" -- Mörschel's postscript -- From Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism -- From letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg -- From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza -- From Morning Hours -- From To Lessing's Friends -- From introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes -- Introduction to translation of Psalms -- From letter to August Hennings, 29 June 1779 -- From Light for the Path -- Selections from the Bi'ur -- On the religious legitimacy of studying logic -- An ontological proof for God's existence -- A cosmological proof for God's existence -- A proof for the immortality of the soul -- A rational foundation for ethics -- On the possibility of miracles -- On the reliability of miracles.…”
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Moses Mendelssohn : writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible by Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786

Table of Contents: “…Lavater's dedication -- Open letter to Lavater -- From "counter-reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis" -- Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October 1773 -- Letter to "a man of rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar) -- From the preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum -- "The search for light and right" -- Mörschel's postscript -- From Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism -- From letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg -- From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza -- From Morning Hours -- From To Lessing's Friends -- From introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes -- Introduction to translation of Psalms -- From letter to August Hennings, 29 June 1779 -- From Light for the Path -- Selections from the Bi'ur -- On the religious legitimacy of studying logic -- An ontological proof for God's existence -- A cosmological proof for God's existence -- A proof for the immortality of the soul -- A rational foundation for ethics -- On the possibility of miracles -- On the reliability of miracles.…”
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To see and not perceive : Isaiah 6.9-10 in early Jewish and Christian interpretation by Evans, Craig A. (Craig Alan), 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE CONTEXT OF ISAIAH; Chapter 2 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN QUMRAN; Chapter 3 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE SEPTUAGINT; Chapter 4 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE TARGUM; Chapter 5 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE PESHITTA; Chapter 6 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN PAUL; Chapter 7 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN MARK; Chapter 8 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN MATTHEW; Chapter 9 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN LUKE -- ACTS; Chapter 10 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN JOHN; Chapter 11 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE RABBIS; Chapter 12 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE FATHERS; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Writings; Index of Modern Authors.…”
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Qumranica Minora II : Thematic Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls. by Martinez, Florentino Garcia

Table of Contents: “…The Genesis of Alexandria, the Rabbis, and Qumran; 14. Divine Sonship at Qumran: between the Old and the New Testament; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Ancient Sources.…”
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Esoteric and exoteric aspects in Judeo-Arabic culture

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Philosophic Mysticism: The Ultimate Goal of Medieval Judaism -- A Mystical Commentary on the Song of Songs in the Hand of David Maimonides II -- Logistical and Other Otherworldly Problems in Saadya -- Judah Halevi on Eschatology and Messianism -- Ittisal and the Amr Ilahi: Divine Immanence and the World to Come in the Kuzari -- Between Halakhic Codification and Ethical Commentary: Rabbi Israel Israeli of Toledo on Intention in Prayer -- Betrothal of an Adult Woman by an Agent in Geonic Responsa: Legal Construction in Accord with Islamic Law -- The Judeo-Arabic Vocabulary of Saadya's Bible Translations as a Vehicle for Eschatological Messages: The Case of Saadya's Usage of the 8th Form of Arabic QDR -- Lexicography and Dialectology in Spanish Maqre Dardeqe -- An Early Karaite Grammatical Treatise -- Jews in Changing Empires of Medieval Islam: Not Only Eschatology and Messianism -- Relations Between Nesi'im and Exilarchs: Competition or Cooperation? …”
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Between feminism and Orthodox Judaism : resistance, identity, and religious change in Israel by Israel-Cohen, Yael

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I Religion, Modernity, and Women; Chapter One Religious Change and Women's Agency in Conservative Religions; Chapter Two Modern Orthodox Judaism and Women's Standing; Chapter Three Methodology; Part II Exclusion and Resistance; Chapter Four The Battle over Women's Standing in Synagogue Ritual; Chapter Five Orthodox Women Rabbis? "It's Only a Matter of Time"; Part III Behind the Label: "I am an Orthodox Feminist"; Chapter Six The Cultural Contextualization of Orthodox Feminist Identity…”
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Life after death : a history of the afterlife in the religions of the West by Segal, Alan F., 1945-2011

Table of Contents: “…Paul's vision of the afterlife -- The Gospels in contrast to Paul's writings -- The pseudepigraphic literature -- The Church Fathers and their opponents -- The early rabbis -- Islam and the afterlife : Muslim, Christian, and Jewish fundamentalism -- Afterword : Immortal longings.…”
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Desert bayou

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Healing the healers. Newtown faith leaders unite in tragedy

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Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Season 1, Episode 5, Angela Buchdahl/Rick Warren/Yasir Qadhi

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Jews in Nevada : a history by Marschall, John P.

Table of Contents: “…8 -- Dashed Hopes, New Discoveries, and the Goldfield Bubble, 1890-19209 -- Building a Tourist Economy and a Permanent Synagogue, 1897-1946; 10 -- The Early Years of Las Vegas, 1905-1955; 11 -- Building a Temple, Keeping a Rabbi, and Schisms North and South, 1950-1980; 12 -- Antisemitism in the Twentieth Century; 13 -- Civil Rights and Uncommon Causes; 14 -- The Varieties of Religious Observance, 1974-2005; 15 -- Yiddishkeit, or Ways of Being Jewish, 1931-2005; 16 -- Walking the Walk, 1970-2005; Conclusion: The Past Need not be Prologue; Notes; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index.…”
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Contemporary American Judaism : transformation and renewal by Kaplan, Dana Evan

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The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph. by Wistrich, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…Adolf Jellinek and the Liberal Response; 9. Joseph Bloch: Rabbi, Parliamentarian, and Publicist; 10. The Austrian Israelite Union; III. …”
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Open Past : Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud. by Dolgopolʹskiĭ, S. B. (Sergeĭ Borisovich)

Table of Contents: “…-- The Virtual -- What Is the Sophist? Who Is the Rabbi? The Virtual of Thinking -- The Talmud as Film -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX “Composerâ€? …”
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The Chelmno Death Camp : History, Biographies, Remembrance. by Hojan, Artur

Table of Contents: “…Appendix I: Letter from Rabbi Szulman-GrabowAppendix II: List of Transports to Chełmno; Appendix III: Inspection Protocol-Ostrowski Factory Koło; Appendix IV: The Extermination Center; Appendix V: My Tribute to Artur Hojan; Illustrations; Documents, Drawings, Maps; Table of Equivalent Ranks; Glossary of Nazi Terms; Selected Bibliography; Sources and Acknowledgements; Index of Names…”
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Hasidism on the margin : reconciliation, antinomianism, and messianism in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism by Magid, Shaul, 1958-

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Digging through the Bible : modern archaeology and the ancient Bible by Freund, Richard A.

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Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America : the Jewish role in American life.

Table of Contents: “…/ Shulamit Nazarian ; The Classic Sephardic Spirit / Rabbi Daniel Bouskila.…”
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Seeking Zion : Modernity and Messianic Activity in the Writings of Tsevi Hirsch Kalischer. by Myers, Jody

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Note on Transliteration and Sources; 1: The Messianic Idea in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1782-1819; The Foundations of Messianic Thought; The First Conflicts; Transitions; Messianism and Conflict over Liturgical Reform; 2: Raising a Rabbi in the Posen District, 1795-1823; Polish Jewish Society at Kalischer's Birth; Education; Marriage and Earning a Livelihood; 3: The Letter to Rothschild, 1836; The Messianic Theory; Kalischer's Proposal; The Prussian Territories during the 1820s and 1830s.…”
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