Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews. Historian Yoram ......
Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle, 1948-1966
During the postwar period of 1948-56, over 400,000 Jews from the Middle East and Asia immigrated to the newly established state of Israel. By the end of the 1950s, Mizrahim, also known as "Oriental Jewry," represented the ethnic majority of the Israeli Jewish population. Despite their large numbers, Mizrahim were considered outsiders because of ......
Hasidic Writing and the Making of Jewish Modernity
Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an overlooked body of texts - collections of Hasidic hagiographic stories about pious leaders, which were mass-produced during the nineteenth century - and makes a compelling argument for reading these works as a crucial part of modern ......
Learning About Jewishness Through the Cultural Arts
Explores how Jews and non-Jews come to learn about Jews and Judaism through leisure-time entertainment Judaism Mediated explores how Jews and non-Jews learn about Judaism through participation in cultural, digital, and leisurely spaces. Most work on religious education has focused on institutional learning, like religious classrooms and houses of ......
Learning About Jewishness Through the Cultural Arts
Explores how Jews and non-Jews come to learn about Jews and Judaism through leisure-time entertainment Judaism Mediated explores how Jews and non-Jews learn about Judaism through participation in cultural, digital, and leisurely spaces. Most work on religious education has focused on institutional learning, like religious classrooms and houses of ......
A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought.
Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential living texts in Jewish philosophy, a masterwork navigating the straits between religion and science, logic ......
Provides a rare study of Jews in small town America For many years, histories of Jews in the United States focused on Jewish migrants who settled in large cities. Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers offers a rare study of Jews in small town America, illuminating the experiences of Jewish families in towns where they constituted one of, at most, ......
Provides a rare study of Jews in small town America For many years, histories of Jews in the United States focused on Jewish migrants who settled in large cities. Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers offers a rare study of Jews in small town America, illuminating the experiences of Jewish families in towns where they constituted one of, at most, ......
