The Two Talmuds Compared: Tractate Erubin
Author: Jacob Neusner
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 408
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Author: Jacob Neusner
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Levi Rodkinson
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacob Neusner
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: University of South Florida
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 488
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0691207690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning New York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway. Yeshiva Days is Jonathan Boyarin's uniquely personal account of the year he spent as both student and observer at Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem, and a poignant chronicle of a side of Jewish life that outsiders rarely see. Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and rhythms. He describes the compelling and often colorful personalities he encounters each day, and introduces readers to the Rosh Yeshiva, or Rebbi, the moral and intellectual head of the yeshiva. Boyarin reflects on the tantalizing meanings of "study for its own sake" in the intellectually vibrant world of traditional rabbinic learning, and records his fellow students' responses to his negotiation of the daily complexities of yeshiva life while he also conducts anthropological fieldwork. A richly mature work by a writer of uncommon insight, wit, and honesty, Yeshiva Days is the story of a place on the Lower East Side with its own distinctive heritage and character, a meditation on the enduring power of Jewish tradition and learning, and a record of a different way of engaging with time and otherness.
Author: Philip Birnbaum
Publisher: New York, Hebrew Publishing Company
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 746
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adam Kirsch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 039360831X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible introduction to the classics of Jewish literature, from the Bible to modern times, by "one of America’s finest literary critics" (Wall Street Journal). Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our history and culture are reflected in the Jewish literary canon: the nature of God, the right way to understand the Bible, the relationship of the Jews to their Promised Land, and the challenges of living as a minority in Diaspora. Adam Kirsch explores eighteen classic texts, including the biblical books of Deuteronomy and Esther, the philosophy of Maimonides, the autobiography of the medieval businesswoman Glückel of Hameln, and the Zionist manifestoes of Theodor Herzl. From the Jews of Roman Egypt to the mystical devotees of Hasidism in Eastern Europe, The People and the Books brings the treasures of Jewish literature to life and offers new ways to think about their enduring power and influence.
Author: J. David Bleich
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780870684500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: University of South Florida
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile historians have tended to accord the Celts a place of minor significance in comparison to the Romans, The Celts firmly aligns the Celtic peoples as the primary European precedent to the Greco-Roman hegemony, restoring this culture to its true importance in the development of European civilization. An expert in Celtic studies, Markale regards myth as a branch of history, and explores mythological material to reveal the culture that gave rise to it. The alternative historical vision that emerges is both convincing and exciting. - One of the most comprehensive treatments of Celtic civilization ever written. - A cornerstone of Western civilization and the major source of its social, political, and literary values, Celtic civilization occupied the whole of Western Europe for more than a millennium. - Unlike the Middle Eastern forerunners of the Greco-Roman world, Celtic civilization is still alive today.