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New Books and Journals
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Dahlia Moore, Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Changing Women, Changing Society
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Changing Women, Changing Society By Dahlia Moore ISBN 978-1-934843-84-0 (Cloth $59.00 / £40.25) 250 pages Academic Studies Press, February, 2012 In Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, Dahlia Moore explores the social and cultural forces at play in Israeli society and their effects on the changing status … [Read More...]
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Raphael Shuchat, Jewish Faith in a Changing World: A Modern Introduction to the World and Ideas of Classical Jewish Philosophy
Jewish Faith in a Changing World: A Modern Introduction to the World and Ideas of Classical Jewish Philosophy By Raphael Shuchat ISBN 978-1-936235-68-1 (Cloth $69.00 / £47.00) 250 pages Academic Studies Press, January, 2012 Ever since the first encounter between Judaism and the western world in the second century BCE, Jewish thinkers … [Read More...]
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Diego Lucci and Paolo Bernardini, The Jews, Instructions for Use: Four Eighteenth-Century Projects for the Emancipation of European Jews
The Jews, Instructions for Use: Four Eighteenth-Century Projects for the Emancipation of European Jews By Diego Lucci and Paolo Bernardini ISBN 978-1-936235-74-2 (Cloth $69.00 / £47.00) 220 pages Academic Studies Press, December, 2011 This book examines the four most important projects for Jewish emancipation in eighteenth-century Europe. … [Read More...]
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Ruth Amir, Who is Afraid of Historical Redress? The Israeli Victim / Perpetrator Dichotomy
Who is Afraid of Historical Redress? The Israeli Victim / Perpetrator Dichotomy By Ruth Amir ISBN 978-1-934843-85-7 (Cloth $59.00 / £40.25) 325 pages Academic Studies Press, October 2011 With the Holocaust resonating as the "thick background," historical redress processes in Israel render a particularly challenging case. The simultaneous … [Read More...]
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Aryeh Cohen, Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism
Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism By Aryeh Cohen ISBN 978-1-936235-64-3 (Cloth $59.00 / £40.25) 160 pages Academic Studies Press, September 2011 Justice in the City argues, based on the Rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’ … [Read More...]
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Alfred Kokh and Pavel Polian, Denial of the Denial, or the Battle of Auschwitz: The Demography and Geopolitics of the Holocaust
Denial of the Denial, or the Battle of Auschwitz: The Demography and Geopolitics of the Holocaust By Alfred Kokh and Pavel Polian ISBN 978-1-936235-34-6 (Cloth $65.00 / £44.25) 350 pages Academic Studies Press, May 2011 Over the decade, the Holocaust has remained a critical issue historically and politically…The purely scholarly problem … [Read More...]
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Shemaryahu Talmon, Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible
Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible by Shemaryahu Talmon ISBN 978-1575061924 (Cloth $54.50; now $49.95) x + 549 pages Eisenbrauns, 1st September 2010 The 18 essays in this fourth volume of Shemaryahu Talmon’s collected studies in English were written against the background of the momentous manuscript finds in the Judean Desert dating … [Read More...]
BUCHANZEIGE: Folker Siegert, Kirche und Synagoge. Ein lutherisches Votum
Kirche und Synagoge. Ein lutherisches Votum hg. v. Folker Siegert ISBN 978-3-525-54012-1 (Fadenheftung, hart gebunden, €115.95) Preis ab Erscheinungsdatum (15.1.2012): 109.90 €. Preis bei vorheriger Subskription: 76,97 €. Subskription erbeten bis 14.1. an: Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum (ijd@uni-muenster.de). Lieferung … [Read More...]
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Doron Rabinovici, Eichmann’s Jews: The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938-1945
Eichmann’s Jews: The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938-1945 by Doron Rabinovici ISBN 978-0-7456-4682-4 (Hardback £20.00) 256 pages Polity Press, 19th August 2011 The question of Jewish collaboration with the Nazi regime is one of the most difficult and sensitive issues surrounding the Holocaust. How could people be … [Read More...]
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Amalia Ran and Jean Axelrad Cahan (editors), Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences, Representations, and Identity
Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences, Representations, and Identity Edited by Amalia Ran and Jean Axelrad Cahan ISBN 978-90-04-20395-2 (Hardback €105/$144) xviii, 242 pages Brill, October 2011 This volume offers a re-examination of some of the prevalent paradigms in Latin American Jewish Studies and an instigation to … [Read More...]
Electronic Journal CALL FOR PAPERS: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
CALL FOR PAPERS: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations www.bc.edu/scjr The editorial board of Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, a peer-reviewed electronic journal, invites submissions for its 2011 volume. SCJR publishes scholarship on the history, theology, and contemporary realities of Jewish-Christian relations and reviews new materials in … [Read More...]
