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Jewish Thought
This fresh and contemporary introduction to the Jewish faith, its philosophies and worldviews, explores debates which have preoccupied Jewish thinkers over the centuries and examines their continuing influence in contemporary Judaism.
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Jewish Frontiers
In this collection of essays, Sander Gilman muses on Jewish memory and representation throughout the 20th century. Bringing together the worlds of literature, medicine and popular culture, Gilman looks at post-diasporic ways of understanding the limits of Jewish identity.
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Jewish Intellectuals and the University
Marla Morris explores Jewish intellectuals in society and in the university using psychoanalytic theory. Morris examines Otherness as experienced by Jewish intellectuals who grapple with anti-Semitism within the halls of academia.
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Jewish Mysticism and Magic
Providing a unique anthropological perspective on Jewish mysticism and magic, this book is a study of Jewish rites and rituals and how the analysis of early literature provides the roots for understanding religious practices.
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Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds
This book presents a linear history of Jewish martyrdom, from the Hellenistic period to the high Middle Ages. Following the chronology of sources, the study challenges the general consensus that martyrdom was an original Hellenistic Jewish idea.
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Jewish Cultural Nationalism
Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts which signified, or themselves brought about, change: the Bible (Hebrew prayer book), and the modern Hebrew lite
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