The Book of Job

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 1
• 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 disa... Lees meer

Karl Kraus 1933

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 25
• The book provides new perspectives on the historical context surrounding Kraus' writing during the Third Reich as well as an analysis of the Third Wal... Lees meer

Is There a Judeo-Christian Tradition?

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 4
• Discourse on the 'Judeo-Christian tradition' has been around in the United States since the middle of the 20th century. This volume returns to the ori... Lees meer

Is There a Judeo-Christian Tradition?

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 4
• The term 'Judeo-Christian' in reference to a tradition, heritage, ethic, civilization, faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with wid... Lees meer

Passages of Belonging

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 7
• In the wake of the spatial and affective turns in Literary Studies in general, and the study of Jewish literatures in particular, this volume shifts f... Lees meer

The Sacred Power of Language in Modern Jewish Thought

Shira Wolosky

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 22
• Judaic cultures have a commitment to language that is exceptional. Language in many form - texts, books and scrolls; learning, interpretation, materia... Lees meer

The Privileged Divine Feminine in Kabbalah

Moshe Idel

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 10
• This volume addresses the complex topic of the preeminent status of the divine feminine power, to be referred also as Female, within the theosophical ... Lees meer

The Privileged Divine Feminine in Kabbalah

Moshe Idel

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 10
• This volume addresses the complex topic of the preeminent status of the divine feminine power, to be referred also as Female, within the theosophical ... Lees meer

Lament in Jewish Thought

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 2
• Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament... Lees meer

The German-Hebrew Dialogue

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 6
• In the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, it seemed there was no place for German in Israel and no trace of Hebrew in Germany -- the two language... Lees meer

The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 20
• Ruth Klüger (1931 - 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Sho... Lees meer

The German-Hebrew Dialogue

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 6
• In the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, it seemed there was no place for German in Israel and no trace of Hebrew in Germany -- the two language... Lees meer

The Formation of the Talmud

Ari Bergmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 17
• This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential representatives of the pre-wa... Lees meer

The Visitation of Hannah Arendt

Michal Ben-Naftali

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 13
• The Visitation of Hannah Arendt is an attempt to literally enact Arendt's notion of "natality". Arendt, known to a large extent through her engagement... Lees meer

Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 5
• This volume deals with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic product... Lees meer

The German-Jewish Experience Revisited

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 3
• In the past decades the "German-Jewish phenomenon" (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies,... Lees meer

Canonization and Alterity

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 14
• This volume offers an examination of varied forms of expressions of heresy in Jewish history, thought and literature. Contributions explore the format... Lees meer

Lament in Jewish Thought

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 2
• Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament... Lees meer

Levinas and Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 15
• The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas's wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding t... Lees meer

Tsimtsum and Modernity

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 16
• This volume is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the Lurianic concept of tsimtsum. It contains eighteen studies in philosophy, theology, ... Lees meer

Psalms In/On Jerusalem

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 9
• This volume explores the ways in which Jerusalem is represented in Psalms - from its position in the context of liturgical and pilgrim songs to its ro... Lees meer

The Book of Job

Batnitzky Leora

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 1
• The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics, E... Lees meer

Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis

Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 18
• Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis examines the centrality of "birth" in Jewish literature, gender theory, and psychoanalysis, thus challenging the ... Lees meer

Spiritual Homelands

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts | nr. 12
• Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopi... Lees meer