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Simcha Gross
Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

"Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the …

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Miriam Bodian
Conversion

This short volume considers conversion in a Jewish context as broadly as possible, as an act of socioreligious boundary crossing. It charts how, across the long arc of Jewish history from biblical times t…

lieferbar ab 11.11.2025.

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Adam Sutcliffe
What Are Jews For?

"For what purpose in the world were the Jews singled out as God's 'chosen people'? What Are Jews For? explores the history of western thinking on the historical purpose of the Jewish people, starting…

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Pamela Barmash
Modern Responsa

Modern Responsa, an original anthology of Jewish ethical and ritual decision-making by rabbinic authorities---men and women, across movements (Conservative, Orthodox, Reform), geographic locales, and ethn…

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Miriam Bodian
Conversion

This short volume considers conversion in a Jewish context as broadly as possible, as an act of socioreligious boundary crossing. It charts how, across the long arc of Jewish history from biblical times t…

lieferbar ab 11.11.2025.

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Contemporary Humanistic Judaism

Contemporary Humanistic Judaism opens up multidimensional ideas, values, and practices of Humanistic Judaism and tells the history and growth of the movement through its most important texts, collected he…

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Paul E Nahme
Ghost People

What does race feel like? What does race make people feel? Ghost People traces the haunting feelings that constitute race as a structural, social, and psychic experience in modern European history by focu…

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Adam S Ferziger
Agents of Change

"This book explores the emergence of novel moderate directions in Israeli religious life that have come to fruition in the twenty-first century, and the key role played by a cadre of American immigra…

lieferbar ab 29.7.2025.

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Henryk Szlajfer
Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries

Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian "great Jewish merchants." However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the w…

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Alan L Mittleman
Does Judaism Condone Violence?

A philosophical case against religious violence We live in an age beset by religiously inspired violence. Terms such as "holy war" are the stock-in-trade of the evening news. But what is the relationship…

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Yaacov Yadgar
To Be a Jewish State

"What does it mean for Israel to be a Jewish state? What is Zionism's relation to Judaism? And what happens to Judaism when it is "nationalized", i.e., read, interpreted, and practiced in a…

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The State of American Jewry

"The essays in this volume describe the current nature of American Jewry, including demography, ethnicity, gender, political and religious attitudes, and organizational structure, all of which have c…

lieferbar ab 22.7.2025.

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Brian Ogren
Reel Kabbalah

Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century. The book …

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Susannah Heschel, Sarah Imhoff
The Woman Question in Jewish Studies

"This book explores and analyzes the status and experience of women in the academic field of Jewish Studies, and argues for the benefits of more fully integrating women and their perspectives into th…

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Brian Ogren
Reel Kabbalah

Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century. The book …

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Beth A Berkowitz
What Animals Teach Us about Families

"Beth Berkowitz's latest book firmly establishes her as the most innovative and compelling scholar writing on the place of animals in Jewish texts. She pushes beyond mining scripture for wisdom and h…

lieferbar ab 6.1.2026.

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Kelsey Mckinney
You Didn't Hear This from Me

"Can you keep a secret? As the pandemic forced us to socialize at a distance, Kelsey McKinney was mourning the juicy updates, jaw-dropping stories, and idle chatter that she'd typically collect over …

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Sarah Hurwitz
As a Jew

"At thirty-six, Sarah Hurwitz was a typical lapsed Jew. On a whim, she attended an introduction to Judaism class and was astonished by what she discovered: thousands of years of wisdom from her ances…

lieferbar ab 9.9.2025.

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Jack Wertheimer
Jewish Giving

"Situating the interplay between funders and their grantees within the dynamic, and ever-changing contours of American Jewish life, Jewish Giving traces the evolving nature of Jewish philanthropy fro…

lieferbar ab 22.7.2025.

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Shulamit S Magnus
Jewish Marital Captivity

"This book presents the first global history of Jewish marital captivity (iggun), and of women chained in marriage against their will (agunot), from early medieval times to the present and across the…

lieferbar ab 19.8.2025.

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