The Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar
The Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar

Author: Arthur Spier

Publisher: Feldheim Publishers

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780873063982

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Lists the corresponding Hebrew and civil dates for the years 1900-2100, with the Torah portion and haftarah for every Sabbath, and more. A special introduction explains the calculation of the calendar.

Calendar and Community
Calendar and Community

Author: Sacha Stern

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001-10-04

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0198270348

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Calendar and Community traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of often neglected sources - literary, documentary, epigraphic, Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian - it is the first comprehensive work to have been written on the subject.It will be useful not only to historians and epigraphists for the interpretation of early Jewish datings, but also as a historical study of early Judaism in its own right. Its main theme is that the Jewish calendar evolved in the course of this period from considerable diversity (with a variety of solar and lunar calendars) to unity (with the normative rabbinic calendar). The unification of the calendar was one element in the unification of Jewish identity in later antiquity and the earlymedieval world.

Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar
Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar

Author: C. Philipp E. Nothaft

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 900427412X

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During the later Middle Ages (twelfth to fifteenth centuries), the study of chronology, astronomy, and scriptural exegesis among Christian scholars gave rise to Latin treatises that dealt specifically with the Jewish calendar and its adaptation to Christian purposes. In Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar C. Philipp E. Nothaft offers the first assessment of this phenomenon in the form of critical editions, English translations, and in-depth studies of five key texts, which together shed fascinating new light on the avenues of intellectual exchange between medieval Jews and Christians.

The Jewish community of Rome [electronic resource]
The Jewish community of Rome [electronic resource]

Author: Silvia Cappelletti

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9004151575

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This publication on the Jewish community of Rome in ancient times provides interesting information about the development of the Jewish presence in the Capital of the Roman Empire and the cultural links this community created with the Diaspora and Eretz-Israel.

The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute Planning Assessment, 2004-2005
The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute Planning Assessment, 2004-2005

Author: Sergio Della Pergola

Publisher: Gefen Publishing House Ltd

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13: 9789652293466

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This volume comprises three main parts: The first includes five broad overviews of the current status of Jewish affairs. The second part includes six chapters, each of which reviews the main recent trends and policy issues relevant to Jewish life in six world regions which articulate contemporary Jewish life: North America; Latin America; Europe and the European Union; the Former Soviet Union; Asia, Africa, and the Pacific; and Israel. The third part introduces an overview of the goals and tasks accomplished by the main Jewish institutions and organizations worldwide in the definition and defense of Jewish interests.