Mekhilta De Rabbi Shimon Bar Yo Edward E Elson Classic

Author : W. David Nelson
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827607996

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Mekhilta De-Rabbi Shimon Bar Yo (Edward E. Elson Classic) by W. David Nelson Pdf

The Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is a collection of classical midrashic interpretation of the biblical Book of Exodus. Lost for centuries, the text was reconstructed and recovered in the 19th and 20th centuries by both German and Israeli scholars from a variety of source materials, including medieval manuscripts of the text and midrashic anthologies. As one of the first collections of rabbinic biblical interpretation, the Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is an indispensable source for understanding the history, beliefs, and practices of the earliest rabbis. This edition, translated and explicated for the first time in English by W. David Nelson, is The Jewish Publication Society's latest contribution to making ancient Jewish literature accessible to modern readers. A critical introduction provides the reader with a firm grounding in the historical setting of the text, as well as its source material, reconstruction, subject matter, and significance for understanding the history of Judaism. Set in a modern, readable typeface, the Hebrew text faces the English translation with the author's annotation beneath. Indexes include scriptural verse citations and rabbinic sages named in the text.

Author : Steven Fine,Yeshiva University. Museum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015041314017

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Sacred Realm by Steven Fine,Yeshiva University. Museum Pdf

Beautiful illustrations and maps transport the reader into the remains of synagogues as far afield as North Africa, Italy, Asia Minor, Israel, and Syria. Sacred Realm complements an exhibition organized by the Yeshiva University Museum in New York. The exhibition brings together archaeological artifacts and manuscripts from museums in North America, Europe, and Israel, most of which have never before been displayed in the Unites States.

Author : Lee I. Levine,Yiśrā·ēl L. Lēwîn,Professor Lee I Levine
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300074758

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The Ancient Synagogue by Lee I. Levine,Yiśrā·ēl L. Lēwîn,Professor Lee I Levine Pdf

Annotation The synagogue was one of the most central and revolutionary institutions of ancient Judaism leaving an indelible mark on Christianity and Islam as well. This commanding book provides an in-depth and comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period to the end of late antiquity. Drawing exhaustively on archeological evidence and on such literary sources as rabbinic material, the New Testament, Jewish writings of the Second Temple period, and Christian and pagan works, Lee Levine traces the development of the synagogue from what was essentially a communal institution to one which came to embody a distinctively religious profile. Exploring its history in the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods in both Palestine and the Diaspora, he describes the synagogue's basic features: its physical remains; its role in the community; its leadership; the roles of rabbis, Patriarchs, women, and priests in its operation; its liturgy; and its art. What emerges is a fascinating mosaic of a dynamic institution that succeeded in integrating patterns of social and religious behavior from the contemporary non-Jewish society while maintaining a distinctively Jewish character.

Author : William Marsden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Malay language
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000110951

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A Grammar of the Malayan Language by William Marsden Pdf

Author : Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins
Publisher : Author House
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781449092009

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Sidrah Sparks by Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins Pdf

From time immemorial Jews have been studying the assigned Sidrah (Torah lesson) every week of the year. Jews study the Sidrah beginning Shabbat afternoon, when the Sidrah for the following week is read in the synagogue. A favorite time to study has always been at the Friday night Shabbat dinner table. As soon as all the prayers and rituals are chanted and performed, the delicious Shabbat meal has been consumed, and Birkat HaMazon (Grace After Meals) has been chanted and perhaps several zemirot (Shabbat hymns) have been sung with gusto a traditional family will turn to the parshah, as it is familiarly known. If they are more advanced they may open a Humash. Or they may have before them a copy of Sidrah Sparks. Serious discussion is a lost art at the family dinner table, and Torah study is surely not common among most families today. Using Sidrah Sparks is a wonderful way to revive the inspiring and enlightening Jewish custom of turning our attention to serious discussion, and to create opportunities for Jewish educational enrichment. Using traditional Torah texts to share our ideas, our philosophies, our values and our feelings is a wonderful way to enrich our minds and spirits, and also our closest relationships.

Author : Harriet Murav
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804779043

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Music from a Speeding Train by Harriet Murav Pdf

Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe—one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence, and catastrophe join traditional Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity. These writers represented, attacked, reformed, and mourned Jewish life in the pre-revolutionary shtetl as they created new forms of Jewish culture. The book emphasizes the Soviet Jewish response to World War II and the Nazi destruction of the Jews, disputing the claim that Jews in Soviet Russia did not and could not react to the killings of Jews. It reveals a largely unknown body of Jewish literature beginning as early as 1942 that responds to the mass killings. By exploring works through the early twenty-first century, the book reveals a complex, emotionally rich, and intensely vibrant Soviet Jewish culture that persisted beyond Stalinist oppression.

Author : Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh
Publisher : GalEinai Publication Society
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789657146729

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Lectures on Torah and Modern Physics (the Lectures in Kabbalah Series) by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh Pdf

Modern physics has forever changed the way we view and understand physical reality. With a wide spectrum of theories, from general relativity to quantum mechanics, our conceptions of the very big and the very small are no longer intuitively obvious. Many philosophers, even scientists have expressed the opinion that the counterintuitive conclusions posited in modern physics are best understood using spiritual terminology. In the 11 lectures in this volume, Harav Ginsburgh, one of our generation's foremost scholars, innovators, and teachers of Kabbalah, reveals how modern physics reflects foundational concepts in the Torah's inner dimension. A wide range of topics from relativity (special and general), quantum mechanics, and string theory are addressed. Elegantly and gracefully, Harav Ginsburgh's exposition of the topics switches back and forth between the scientific and Torah perspectives. With his deep insight, Harav Ginsburgh gives even well-known physical concepts a refreshing and new treatment. Apart from carefully drawing parallels and correspondences between the Torah's inner dimension and modern physics, in these lectures, Harav Ginsburgh proposes new directions for scientific research into important areas such as a unified field theory, CPT symmetry, the relationship between acceleration and gravitation, and the possibility of uncovering additional dimensions in physical reality, demonstrating how the Torah's depth can be used to fertilize science and further our understanding of nature.

Author : Laura Valentine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : OXFORD:600021873

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Maidenhood, Or, The Verge of the Stream by Laura Valentine Pdf

Author : William Kornbluth,Edith Kornbluth
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0934223300

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Sentenced to Remember by William Kornbluth,Edith Kornbluth Pdf

The description of the Nazi "selection" days contains some of the most terrifying events in the memoir.

Author : Federico Dal Bo
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 3161526619

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Massekhet Keritot by Federico Dal Bo Pdf

The tractate Keritot of the Babylonian Talmud belongs to the Order of Qodashim in the Mishnah. It discusses the Temple and its rituals, especially sacrifices, but deals mostly with laws of incest, sexual transgressions, childbirth, and miscarriages. In this commentary, Federico Dal Bo provides a historical, philological and philosophical investigation on these gender issues. He discusses almost the entire tractate, referring to many other sources, Jewish (the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Sifra, and other rabbinic texts) as well as non-Jewish (Akkadian, Hittite, and Ugaritic). The author also provides accurate philological observations both on the Mishnah and the Gemara. Finally, he addresses gender issues by combining a reductionistic approach to Talmudic study (the so called "Brisker method") with philosophical deconstruction. Dal Bo shows that in nearly the entire tractate Keritot the rabbis discuss human sexuality in a tendentious and restrictive way, claiming that heterosexuality is the only proper sexual contact and progressively stigmatizing any other kind of sexual behavior.

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick,Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691190235

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In the Shadow of Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick,Yuri Slezkine Pdf

Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way those events were perceived and reflected in the humble and distant corner of Russia that was the Cossack town of Korenovskaia." What these women witnessed and experienced, and what they were moved to describe, is part of the extraordinary portrait of life in revolutionary Russia presented in this book. A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century, In the Shadow of Revolution brings together the testimony of Soviet citizens and émigrés, intellectuals of aristocratic birth and Soviet milkmaids, housewives and engineers, Bolshevik activists and dedicated opponents of the Soviet regime. In literary memoirs, oral interviews, personal dossiers, public speeches, and letters to the editor, these women document their diverse experience of the upheavals that reshaped Russia in the first half of this century. As is characteristic of twentieth-century Russian women's autobiographies, these life stories take their structure not so much from private events like childbirth or marriage as from great public events. Accordingly the collection is structured around the events these women see as touchstones: the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-20; the switch to the New Economic Policy in the 1920s and collectivization; and the Stalinist society of the 1930s, including the Great Terror. Edited by two preeminent historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, the volume includes introductions that investigate the social historical context of these women's lives as well as the structure of their autobiographical narratives.

Author : Emilie Amt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134720606

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Women's Lives in Medieval Europe by Emilie Amt Pdf

Praise for the first edition: 'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a curriculum that takes class, gender, and ethnicity as central to an understanding of world cultural history.' - The Medieval Review Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material. This new edition includes expanded sections on marriage and sexuality, and on peasant women and townswomen, as well as a new section on women and the law. There are brief introductions both to the period and to the individual documents, study questions to accompany each reading, a glossary of terms and a fully updated bibliography. Working within a multi-cultural framework, the book focuses not just on the Christian majority, but also present material about women in minority groups in Europe, such as Jews, Muslims, and those considered to be heretics. Incorporating both the laws, regulations and religious texts that shaped the way women lived their lives, and personal narratives by and about medieval women, the book is unique in examining women’s lives through the lens of daily activities, and in doing so as far as possible through the voices of women themselves.

Author : Ala Zuskin Perelman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780815653240

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The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin by Ala Zuskin Perelman Pdf

Described by theater critics as one of the twentieth century’s greatest talents, Benjamin Zuskin (1899–1952) was a star of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. In writing The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin, his daughter, Ala Zuskin Perelman, has rescued from oblivion his story and that of the theater in which he served as performer and, for a period, artistic director. Against the backdrop of the Soviet regime’s effort to stifle any expression of Jewish identity, the Moscow State Jewish Theater—throughout its thirty years of existence (1919–49)—maintained a high level of artistic excellence while also becoming a center of Jewish life and culture. A member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Zuskin was arrested under fabricated charges and eventually executed on August 12, 1952, along with twelve other eminent Soviet Jews and committee members. Zuskin Perelman’s fascinating chronicle, more than just a personal memoir, conveys the vibrancy and energy of Jewish theater, celebrates the cultural achievements of Soviet Jews, and calls attention to the tragic fate that awaited them. The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin sheds light on Soviet Jewish history through the lens of one of the period’s most influential cultural icons.

Author : Dr. Phillip Goble
Publisher : AFI International Publishers
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780939341047

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The Orthodox Jewish Bible by Dr. Phillip Goble Pdf

THE ORTHODOX JEWISH TANAKH TORAH NEVI’IM KETUVIM BOTH TESTAMENTS The Orthodox Jewish Bible is an English language version that applies Yiddish and Hasidic cultural expressions to the Messianic Bible.

Author : John Douglass West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Gynecology
ISBN : STANFORD:24503355336

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Maidenhood and Motherhood, Or Ten Phases of Woman's Life by John Douglass West Pdf