Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174425923
The Legends of the Jews
Louis Ginzberg
The Legends Of The Jews
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The Legends of the Jews; Volume 4
Paul Radin,Henrietta Szold
Author : Paul Radin,Henrietta Szold
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102274660X
The Legends of the Jews; Volume 4 by Paul Radin,Henrietta Szold Pdf
A comprehensive collection of Jewish legends and myths from Biblical times through the Middle Ages. These tales provide insight into Jewish culture and beliefs, and have influenced Jewish literature and art for centuries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Legends of the Jews
Louis Ginzberg
Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Jewish legends
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004672585
The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Pdf
The Legends of the Jews; Volume 2
Paul Radin,Henrietta Szold
Author : Paul Radin,Henrietta Szold
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1015634206
The Legends of the Jews; Volume 2 by Paul Radin,Henrietta Szold Pdf
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Legends of the Bible
Louis Ginzberg
Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1861054734
Legends of the Bible by Louis Ginzberg Pdf
Bible Legends explores the rich crop of legends that occur in the Old Testament, many of which are the key to the richest literary and artistic traditions of the western world. Real people emerge from these familiar (and not so familiar) stories: Adam's ascent into Heaven in a chariot; Abraham's trial by fire; Jonah's adventure in the whale; Solomon as a beggar; the wooing of Rebekah; the life of Moses; David and Goliath; Cain and Abel. In this fascinating book, Louis Ginzberg presents the Bible's spiritual values in new colours and dimensions. This is storytelling with a grain of salt and a lot of wit. These tales sprang from the ancient oral tradition and changed the daily thoughts and deeds of a hundred generations; here, their power and truth is examined
Jewish Poland--legends of Origin
Ḥayah Bar-Yitsḥaḳ
Author : Ḥayah Bar-Yitsḥaḳ
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0814327893
Jewish Poland--legends of Origin by Ḥayah Bar-Yitsḥaḳ Pdf
The first appearance of Jews in Poland and their adventures during their early years of settlement in the country are concealed in undocumented shadows of history. What survived are legends of origin that early chronicles, historians, writers, and folklore scholars transcribed, thus contributing to their preservation. According to the legendary chronicles Jews resided in Poland for a millennium and developed a vibrant community. Haya Bar-Itzhak examines the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community creates its own chronicle, how it structures and consolidates its identity through stories about its founding, and how this identity varies from age to age. Bar-Itzhak also examines what happened to these legends after the extermination of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust, when the human space they describe no longer exists except in memory. For the Polish Jews after the Holocaust, the legends of origin undergo a fascinating transformation into legends of destruction. Jewish Poland -- Legends of Origin brings to light the more obscure legends of origin as well as those already well known. This book will be of interest to scholars in folklore studies as well as to scholars of Judaic history and culture.
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Galit Hasan-Rokem
Author : Galit Hasan-Rokem
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814340486
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews by Galit Hasan-Rokem Pdf
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of faith faced modern sensibilities. Published beginning in 1909, Rabbi and Professor Louis Ginzberg’s seven-volume The Legends of the Jews appeared at this crucial time and offered a landmark synthesis of aggadah from classical Rabbinic literature and ancient folk legends from a number of cultures. It remains a hugely influential work of scholarship from a man who shaped American Conservative Judaism. In Louis Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews: Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered, editors Galit Hasan-Rokem and Ithamar Gruenwald present a range of reflections on the Legends, inspired by two plenary sessions devoted to its centennial at the Fifteenth Congress of the World Association of Jewish Studies in August 2009. In order to provide readers with the broadest possible view of Ginzberg’s colossal project and its repercussions in contemporary scholarship, the editors gathered leading scholars to address it from a variety of historical, philological, philosophical, and methodological perspectives. Contributors give special regard to the academic expertise and professional identity of the author of the Legends as a folklore scholar and include discussions on the folkloristic underpinnings of The Legends of the Jews. They also investigate, each according to her or his disciplinary framework, the uniqueness, strengths, and weakness of the project. An introduction by Rebecca Schorsch and a preface by Galit Hasan-Rokem further highlight the folk narrative aspects of the work in addition to the articles themselves. The present volume makes clear the historical and scholarly context of Ginzberg’s milestone work as well as the methodological and theoretical issues that emerge from studying it and other forms of aggadic literature. Scholars of Jewish folklore as well as of Talmudic-Midrashic literature will find this volume to be invaluable reading.
Dictionary of Jewish Lore & Legend
Alan Unterman
Author : Alan Unterman
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780500771037
Dictionary of Jewish Lore & Legend by Alan Unterman Pdf
A clear and well-illustrated guide to the main characters and legends of Judaism This book captures the richness and vitality of traditional Jewish culture: a web of legend, folklore and superstition that is crucial to understanding Judaism. Topics include Jewish law, literature and poetry; the festivals of the Jewish year; the languages and sub-groups within the Jewish community; and the many countries that Jews have lived in. The book also reveals another side of Judaism, a world populated by angels and demons, sages and Kabbalists, and creatures unknown to zoologists.
Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
Xin Xu,Beverly Friend
Author : Xin Xu,Beverly Friend
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0881255289
Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng by Xin Xu,Beverly Friend Pdf
Even today there are people in Kaifeng who remain aware of their ancestry and register as Jews on official census forms.
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Dara Horn
Author : Dara Horn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393531572
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn Pdf
Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.
The Legends of the Jews
Louis Ginzberg
Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Jewish legends
ISBN : PSU:000054559448
The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Pdf
The Jewish Book of Days
Jill Hammer
Author : Jill Hammer
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827610132
The Jewish Book of Days by Jill Hammer Pdf
Throughout the ages, Jews have connected legends to particular days of the Hebrew calendar. Abraham's birth, the death of Rachel, and the creation of light are all tales that are linked to a specific day and season. The Jewish Book of Days invites readers to experience the connection between sacred story and nature's rhythms, through readings designed for each and every day of the year. These daily readings offer an opportunity to live in tune with the wisdom of the past while learning new truths about the times we live in today. Using the tree as its central metaphor, The Jewish Book of Days is divided into eight chapters of approximately forty-five days each. These sections represent the tree's stages of growth--seed, root, shoot, sap, bud, leaf, flower, and fruit--and also echo the natural cadences of each season. Each entry has three components: a biblical quote for the day; a midrash on the biblical quote or a Jewish tradition related to that day; and commentary relating the text to the cycles of the year. The author includes an introduction that analyzes the different months and seasons of the Hebrew calendar and explains the textual sources used throughout. Appendixes provide additional material for leap years, equinoxes, and solstices. A section on seasonal meditations offers a new way to approach the divine every day.
The Invention of the Land of Israel
Shlomo Sand
Author : Shlomo Sand
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844679461
The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand Pdf
What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.
Jewish Legends of the Second Commonwealth
Judah Nadich
Author : Judah Nadich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024235007
Jewish Legends of the Second Commonwealth by Judah Nadich Pdf
The Legends of the Jews: From Joseph to the exodus
Louis Ginzberg
Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Jewish legends
ISBN : IND:30000130946647