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Author : Avraham Yaakov Finkel
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Responsa Anthology written by Avraham Yaakov Finkel and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 250 questions and answers culled from responsa literature.
Author : Avraham Yaakov Finkel
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Responsa Anthology written by Avraham Yaakov Finkel and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the ages, crucial questions concerning Jewish life have been presented to the preeminent scholars of each generation. These queries, she'eilot, were answered by the rabbis in detailed responsa, teshuvot . These questions reflect the entire spectrum of Jewish life, from communal concerns
Author : Pamela Barmash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780827615588
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Modern Responsa written by Pamela Barmash and published by . This book was released on 2024-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Responsa, an original anthology of Jewish ethical and ritual decision-making by rabbinic authorities--men and women, across movements (Conservative, Orthodox, Reform), geographic locales, and ethnicities (Ashkenazic, Sefardic, Mizraḥi)--illuminates how Judaism's legal tradition is applied to real-life issues.
Author : Alexander Guttmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Holocaust : an Anthology of Responsa written by Alexander Guttmann and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matt Goldish
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691122656
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (226 download)
Download or read book Jewish Questions written by Matt Goldish and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the rabbis' responses. The questions along with their rabbinical decisions examine all aspects of Jewish life, including business, family, religious issues, and relations between Jews and non-Jews. Taken together, the responsa constitute an extremely rich source of information about the everyday lives of Sephardic Jews. The book looks at questions asked between 1492--when the Jews were expelled from Spain--and 1750. Originating from all over the Sephardic world, the responsa discuss such diverse topics as the rules of conduct for Ottoman Jewish sea traders, the trials of an ex-husband accused of a robbery, and the rights of a sexually abused wife. Goldish provides a sizeable introduction to the history of the Sephardic diaspora and the nature of responsa literature, as well as a bibliography, historical background for each question, and short biographies of the rabbis involved. Including cases from well-known communities such as Venice, Istanbul, and Saloniki, and lesser-known Jewish enclaves such as Kastoria, Ragusa, and Nablus, Jewish Questions provides a sense of how Sephardic communities were organized, how Jews related to their neighbors, what problems threatened them and their families, and how they understood their relationship to God and the Jewish people.
Author : Solomon Bennett Freehof
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Responsa Literature and A Treasury of Responsa written by Solomon Bennett Freehof and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Bazak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Jewish law written by Jacob Bazak and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Jacobs
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 190982139X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Theology in the Responsa written by Louis Jacobs and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs examines more than a thousand years of rabbinic responsa and draws from them attitudes to basic theological principles which underlie his concern with such practical questions as life after death, reward and punishment, and the problem of suffering.
Author : Avraham Grossman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786949806
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Rashi written by Avraham Grossman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence on Jewish thinking of Rashi’s commentaries on the Bible and the Talmud remains unsurpassed. This biographical study presents a masterly survey of the social and cultural background of Rashi’s work, his personality, his reputation, and his influence, while also considering his sources, his interpretative method, his innovations, and his style and language. The central contribution, however, is the in-depth analysis of Rashi’s world-view, which leads to conclusions that are likely to stimulate much debate.
Author : Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher : One World (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781851681044
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Jewish Mysticism written by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and published by One World (UK). This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short introduction to the history and nature of Jewish mysticism, including an illuminating account of the major developments in Jewish mystical reflection and a chronological anthology of mystical passages.
Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0446930504
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (469 download)
Download or read book The Vanishing American Jew written by Alan M. Dershowitz and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this urgent book, Alan M. Dershowitz shows why American Jews are in danger of disappearing - and what must be done now to create a renewed sense of Jewish identity for the next century. In previous times, the threats to Jewish survival were external - the virulent consequences of anti-Semitism. Now, however, in late-twentieth-century America, the danger has shifted. Jews today are more secure, more accepted, more assimilated, and more successful than ever before. They've dived into the melting pot - and they've achieved the American Dream. And that, according to Dershowitz, is precisely the problem. More than 50 percent of Jews will marry non-Jews, and their children will most often be raised as non-Jews. Which means, in the view of Dershowitz, that American Jews will vanish as a distinct cultural group sometime in the next century - unless they act now. Speaking to concerned Jews everywhere, Dershowitz calls for a new Jewish identity that focuses on the positive - the 3,500-year-old legacy of Jewish culture, values, and traditions. Dershowitz shows how this new Jewish identity can compete in America's open environment of opportunity and choice - and offers concrete proposals on how to instill it in the younger generation.
Author : Jacob R. Marcus
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 0878201769
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (782 download)
Download or read book The Jew in the Medieval World written by Jacob R. Marcus and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To gain an accurate view of medieval Judaism, one must look through the eyes of Jews and their contemporaries. First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which let the actors and witnesses of events speak for themselves. The medieval epoch in Jewish history begins around the year 315, when the emperor Constantine began enacting disabling laws against the Jews, rendering them second-class citizens. In the centuries following, Jews enjoyed (or suffered under) legislation, either chosen or forced by the state, which differed from the laws for the Christian and Muslim masses. Most states saw the Jews as simply a tolerated group, even when given favorable privileges. The masses often disliked them. Medieval Jewish history presents a picture wherein large patches are characterized by political and social disabilities. Marcus closes the medieval Jewish age (for Western Jewry) in 1791 with the proclamation of political and civil emancipation in France. The 137 sources included in the anthology include historical narratives, codes, legal opinions, martyrologies, memoirs, polemics, epitaphs, advertisements, folk-tales, ethical and pedagogical writings, book prefaces and colophons, commentaries, and communal statutes. These documents are organized in three sections: The first treats the relation of the State to the Jew and reflects the civil and political status of the Jew in the medieval setting. The second deals with the profound influence exerted by the Catholic and Protestant churches on Jewish life and well-being. The final section presents a study of the Jew "at home," with four sub-divisions with treat the life of the medieval Jew in its various aspects. Marcus presents the texts themselves, introductions, and lucid notes. Marc Saperstein offers a new introduction and updated bibliography.
Author : Shmuly Yanklowitz
Publisher : CCAR Press
ISBN 13 : 0881233617
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)
Download or read book The Book of Jonah written by Shmuly Yanklowitz and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Jonah is a unique text in the Jewish canon. Among the shortest books in the Bible, it is also one of the most mysterious and morally ambiguous. Who is this prophet running from God, hiding at the bottom of the ocean? Why does he struggle with God's mission to save and forgive Israel's enemies? In this volume, Rabbi Dr. Yanklowitz shows that the Book of Jonah delivers a message of human responsibility in a shared world. Illuminating such contemporary ethical issues as animal welfare, incarceration, climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and Jewish-Muslim relations, this social justice commentary urges us to join in repairing a broken world--a call that we, unlike Jonah, must hasten to answer.
Author : Dean Phillip Bell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9780391041028
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Sacred Communities written by Dean Phillip Bell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature and extent of changes in communal structures and self-definition among Jews and Christians in Germany during the century before the Reformation. It argues that Christian community was restructured along civic and religious lines resulting in the development of a local sacred society that integrated material and spiritual well being into a moral and legal society, stressing the common good and internal peace, while Jewish community, given a variety of factors, came to be defined through regional communal structures and moral and legal discourse that allowed for broader geographical communal identity. Bell draws from a variety of German, Latin, and Hebrew sources and takes into consideration several methods and viewpoints of studying history.
Author : Paul Wexler
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427958
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews written by Paul Wexler and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the pattern of his earlier works on the origins of Ashkenazic Jewry, Professor Wexler presents a fascinating, but controversial linguistic study on the origins of Sephardic Jewry. Finding that many of the language patterns of Sephardic Jewry have their origins in non-Jewish languages, the author suggests that many Sephardic Jews are actually descendants of the converts who brought with them the language of their birth and integrated it into Sephardic speech patterns and dialects. furthermore, he uses linguistic clues to suggest both migration patterns and the possible isolation of Sephardic Jewry.
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Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004059634
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (596 download)
Download or read book JEWISH LAW ANNUAL 1979 written by and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1979 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Jacob
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9780929699042
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Rabbinic-lay Relations in Jewish Law written by Walter Jacob and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seeks to provide an ongoing forum through symposia, colloquia and publications. The foremost halakhic scholars in the Reform, Liberal, and Progressive rabbinate along with some Conservative and Orthodox colleagues as well as university professors serve on our Academic Council.
