Professor Kellner is one of the more productive and creative scholars in medieval. Jewish thought. Over the years he has published many important essays on various aspects of medieval Jewish philosop
The 'encounters' to which Oppenheim (religion, Concordia U., Montreal) refers are ones between Jewish tradition and modernity, history, and other philosophies. In this collection of 15 articles --most
Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works
This is the first comprehensive study of the language program of the prominent Ukrainian writer and ideologue Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819-1897) whose translations of the Bible and Shakespeare proved most
German Jewry between Hope and Despair,1871-1933, provides important interpretations of this tumultuous and conflict-ridden period and invites readers to partake in the ongoing debate over modern Jewis
Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present, edited by Eunice G. Pollack, is the first book of a multidisciplinary series on Antisemitism in America to be published by Academic Studies Press. In th
Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin's Gulag, moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gul
Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of “Europe,” at
Jewish custom and ritual, or their Hebrew equivalent, minhag, has intrigued rabbis and scholars for generations. The majority of the rabbinical works devoted to minhag primarily encompass lists of sou
“Think of the disaster” is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews during the Shoah. Thinking of the disaster means understanding why the Shoah was able
In this translation from the 2008 Polish original, Kazmierska (sociology of culture, U. of Lodz, Poland) focuses broadly on displacement throughout modern history of peoples in Central and Eastern Eur
Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature combines discussions of ethical, esthetic, and philosophical interest raised by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, with close anal
Phillip J. Caplan, author of a popular book on Jewish law for Jewish lay readers, has produced a new translation of the Zohar HaRakia. The original text was written by Rabbi Shimon ben Zemach Duran in
Compiled by a group of distinguished international scholars, including John Pocock, Diana Pinto, Thomas Maissen, and Fania Oz-Salzberger, this volume offers a threefold intellectual juncture. Its cont
Despite the title's reference to the emancipation of European Jews in the Age of Enlightenment, this volume's theme is allo-Semitism, which treats Jews ambivalently as a radically different people. Be
Volozhin was the leading yeshiva in 19th century Lithuania, andRabbi Berlin (1816-1893) or Neziv as he is known today, headed itduring its heyday and decline. Following socio-biographicalbackground, P
The thought paths of major German-Jewish philosophers Martin Buber (1878-1965), who immigrated to Jerusalem, and Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), who immigrated to the U.S., had many intersections
This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the “big wave” of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part of their works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina,
"This book is essential reading on the spatial concepts that two erstwhile neighboring cultures, Lithuanian and German, once associated with one physical space--a Lithuanian region in Prussia. Coverin
In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connections to the visual arts and music. Blank demonstrate
