Emet le-Ya‘akov
Emet le-Ya‘akov

Author: Zev Eleff

Publisher: Academic Studies PRess

Published: 2023-11-21

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13:

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Emet le-Ya‘akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, who has served the American and international Jewish community with distinction in his roles as a synagogue rabbi, university professor, and public intellectual. These articles, like the honoree, recognize the importance of both history and memory, emphasize the necessity of accuracy in historiography, and do not shy away from inconvenient truths. They are divided into three categories that help frame the discussion around “facing the truths of history”: Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past. The volume also includes a brief sketch of Schacter’s life and work and a bibliography of his publications.

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3
The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3

Author: C. S. Lewis

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 1844

ISBN-13: 0060819227

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The letters found in Volume II reveal inside accounts of how The Screwtape Letters came to be written, the early meetings of the Inklings (with J.R.R. Tolkien giving readings about "hobbits" and "Middle Earth"), how C.S. Lewis became popular through BBC radio talks, but mostly how this quiet professor in England touched the lives of many through an amazing discipline of personal correspondence.

Free and Ennobled
Free and Ennobled

Author: Carol Bauer

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1483279197

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Free and Ennobled: Source Readings in the Development of Victorian Feminism covers the knowledge gap in the field of Victorian feminist studies. This book is the outgrowth of a college course on the Victorian Woman. This book is composed of ten chapters, and begins with an introduction to womanhood. The succeeding chapters deal with the emergence of feminism and the introduction of the Victorian Feminism movement as part of social adjustment. Other chapters are devoted to controversial issues in women's right, including education, emancipation, work, and political rights. The final chapters discuss the achievements of the Victorian Feminism movement. This book will prove useful to sociologists.

Reasons why
Reasons why

Author: Bradford Skow

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0198785844

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Reasons Why first argues that what philosophers are really after, or at least should be after, when they seek a theory of explanation, is a theory of answers to why-questions. It then advances a thesis about what form a theory of answers to why-questions should take: a theory of answers to why-questions should say what it takes for one fact to be a reason why another fact obtains. The book's main thesis, then, is a theory of reasons why. Every reason why some event happened is either a cause, or a ground, of that event. Challenging this thesis are many examples philosophers have thought they have found of "non-causal explanations." Reasons Why uses two ideas to show that these examples are not counterexamples to the theory it defends. First is the idea that not every part of a good response to a why-question is part of an answer to that why-question. Second is the idea that not every reason why something is a reason why an event happened is itself a reason why that event happened. In the book's final chapter its theory of reasons why is extended to cover teleological answers to why-questions, and answers to why-questions that give an agent's reason for acting.

Ennoble and Enable
Ennoble and Enable

Author: Zev Eleff

Publisher: Maggid

Published: 2018-01-28

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 9781592645091

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From 2003-2017, President Joel launched and executed a vision for YU that centered on its students, providing them with multiple meaningful opportunities to develop their talents both within and outside of the classroom. President Joel also founded new programs and centers to extend the reach of Yeshiva University and its Torah U'Madda philosophy to communities throughout North America and beyond. These chapters, written by women and men in a variety of scholarly fields and leadership positions both in YU as well as in other institutions, celebrate President Joel's accomplishments by exploring ideas relating to the central themes of his presidency: education, community, and leadership. In addition, several authors consider the components and qualities that ennobled and enabled President Joel to excel in his career at Yeshiva. Together, they honor President Joel for fourteen years of exemplary service to YU and the Jewish people.

Collected Letters
Collected Letters

Author: Clive Staples Lewis

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1846

ISBN-13:

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This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis's letters, many published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this final volume covers the years 1950 - the year 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' was published - through to Lewis's untimely death in 1963.