Boston academic studies press (33 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Advance Uncorrected Proof copy. Wraps, 432pp. Fine condition.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 145 pp., b/w photos.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, glossy paper covers, x, 145 pp., bibliography, indexes.

PAPERBACK, very good, lower corner of last half of pages and cover bent from hitting another book in the box, otherwise very good and book appears unused. SCHWEID, ELIEZER. The idea of modern Jewish culture. Translated by Amnon Hadary ; edited by Leonard Levin. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010, xiii, 296pp., . The reference library of Jewish intellectual history- CONTENTS: Culture as a concept and culture as an ideal -- Tensions and contradiction -- Internalizing the cultural ideal -- The underlying philosophy of Jewish enlightenment -- The meaning of being a Jewish-Hebrew maskil -- Crossroads: the transition from haskalah to the science of Judaism -- The dialectic between national Hebrew culture and Jewish idealistic humanism -- The philosophic historic formation of Jewish humanism: a modern guide to the perplexed -- The science of Judaism : research in Judaism as a culture -- The science of Judaism, Reform Judaism, and historical positivism -- A critique of the science of Judaism and the cultural ideal of the enlightenment -- Accelerated change and revolution -- The vision of Jewish cultural renaissance in political Zionism -- The pioneering (?alutzic) culture of the Jewish labor movement in Palestine -- Polar views on sources of Jewish culture -- Alienation from religion and tradition -- The Jewish folk culture of Eretz Israel -- Judaism as the totality of a national historic culture -- Sanctity and the Jewish national movement -- The dimension of sanctity in pioneering Labor Zionism -- Orthodox Zionist culture: sanctifying modernity -- Judaism as a culture in the diaspora -- The secular Jewish culture of Yiddish -- The transition from the Hebrew culture of pre-state Eretz Israel to Israeli culture. ISBN 9781936235094. …

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 213pp., index Translated from the Hebrew by Leonard Levin. "The fundamental book of Eliezer Schweid is a modern interpretation of the Bible as narrative and law that can reopen the dialogue of contemporary Jews with the Bible, from which a dynamic Jewish culture can continue to draw its inspiration. The approach draws at the same time from the philosophical modernism of Hermann Cohen, the dialogical philosophy of Buber, the religious phenomenology of Heschel, and the insights of contemporary Biblical scholars, including literary analysts of the Bible.Schweid helps us to appreciate the broader message of the narrative of creation and settlement of the land in its ecumenical and planetary dimensions. The world is God's creation whose resources are to be deployed as necessary for the sustenance and needs-fulfillment of all peoples and all creatures equallya message very much relevant to the ecological crisis facing us all at the present time." flap copy.…

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xii, 216 pp., index Translated from the Hebrew by Leonard Levin. "Like Spinoza in his Theological-Political Treatise, Schweid helps us grasp the potential for seeing radically new messages in this oldest of books, the Bible. The American Founding Fathers realized that the Bible offers strong support for the doctrine of popular sovereignty. Socially, it offers a message of egalitarianism, especially in the provisions of the Jubilee. It is hardly an accident that two modern political movements found mottos ready at hand from the 25th chapter of Leviticus: "Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof" (from the Liberty Bell), and: "The land shall not be sold in perpetuity" (motto of the Jewish National Fund).More broadly, Schweid helps us to appreciate the broader message of the narrative of creation and settlement of the land in its ecumenical and planetary dimensions. The world is God's creation whose resources are to be deployed as necessary for the sustenance and needs-fulfillment of all peoples and all creatures equallya message very much relevant to the ecological crisis facing us all at the present time." flap copy.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 336pp paperback, ownership signature.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good-. Illustrated white boards (no d/jkt as issued). Front boards slightly tarnished. ; 8vo (6 1/2" x 9 1/2"); 285 pages.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, xii, 327 pp., index.

Zustand: Fine. 1st edition. Printed boards, F. 270pp, index, a fine copy. Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. 600 grams.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xxii, 225 pp., notes, index Translated from the Hebrew by Leonard Levin. "This classic work by early-20th-century Jewish humanist and scholar Isaac Heinemann surveys the crucial phases of Jewish thought concerning correct conduct as codified in the comandments. Heinemann provides his own systematic insights about the intellectual, emotional, pedagogical, and pragmatic reasoning advanced by the major Jewish thinkers.This volume covers Jewish thinkers from the Bible, rabbis and Hellenistic philosophers through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including Saadiah, Halevi, Maimonides,Albo, and many others. Heinemann addresses such questions as:What were the Biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern rationales offered for the commandments in the course of Jewish thought?" flap copy.…

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, xxii, 225 pp., notes, index Translated from the Hebrew by Leonard Levin. "This classic work by early-20th-century Jewish humanist and scholar Isaac Heinemann surveys the crucial phases of Jewish thought concerning correct conduct as codified in the comandments. Heinemann provides his own systematic insights about the intellectual, emotional, pedagogical, and pragmatic reasoning advanced by the major Jewish thinkers.This volume covers Jewish thinkers from the Bible, rabbis and Hellenistic philosophers through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including Saadiah, Halevi, Maimonides,Albo, and many others. Heinemann addresses such questions as:What were the Biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern rationales offered for the commandments in the course of Jewish thought?" flap copy.…

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, glossy paper covered boards, xx, 169 pp., author biographies, index Preface by John S. Ruskay. Editor's note by the editors. Articles are "Introduction: Four Questions Concerning Peoplehood - And Just as Many Answers," Arnold Eisen, "The Problem of Jewish Peoplehood," Michael Rosenak, "The Anomalies of Jewish Political Identity," Micahel Walzer, "On Modern Jewish Identities," Moshe Halbertal, "The Jewish People and the Israeli Nation," Shmuel Trigano, "Jewish Sectarianism and Jewish Peoplehood," Ami Bouganim, "A Socieologist's Guide for Building Jewish Peoplehood," Ezra Kopelowitz, "A New Understanding of Peoplehood: The Jewish Conversation," Laura Geller, "Against the Cultural Grain: Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century," Riv Ellen-Prell, "Jewish Literacy Manifesto (in First Person Feminine)," Michael Govrin, "Your People Shall Be My People: Notes on Nurturing Jewish Peoplehood," Yonatan Ariel, "Afterword," Alan Hoffman.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 236. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 1936235536 Fine in fine dust wrapper.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, printed paper covered boards, 184 pp., index Translated from the Yiddish and introduced by Maurice Wolfthal. Originally published at "Mayne Fir Yor in Sovyet-Rusland," under the name Yitshak Edison, Paris, Imprimerie Gelbard, 1953.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, 484 pp., notes, bibliography, indexes.

Orig.-Pp. Zustand: Sehr gut. 405 Seiten Very good and fresh copy. - Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The First Two Decades: The 1960s and 1970s -- 2. The 1980s: A Time of Departure and Consolidation -- 3. The 1990s: A Decade of Comparison and Ordinary Men's Violence -- 4. The 2000s: The Entanglement Era -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index -- / "For the student of history, the first half of the twentieth cen- tury is inexhaustible. Moreover, anyone interested in modern international history must reflect on the European and global events and processes that took place during the turbulent decades between 1914 and 1945 and, in particular, on their interconnections. What exactly are the lessons of this his- tory? Judging from the consequences of the two world wars, it is reasonable to conclude that major modern wars seldom bring lasting peace, that the enmities, brutalization, and mobi- lization of one conflagration can easily trigger another. And even when a war comes to an end, the structures, mentalities, and worldviews it produced are not easily dismantled. As the European interwar period demonstrates, major wars bring painful, revanchist memories with them; and these, in turn, can foster the kinds of internal and international conditions that lead to further conflict. -- That democratic states do not start wars is a lesson that can be substantiated by both world wars. But how do major wars affect democracy? Can we, with our understanding of the aftermath of the First World War, conclude that democracy draws strength from the sacrifices made during a major mod- ern war? Are rifles naturally replaced with ballot boxes? Does the decolonization that occurred after the Second World" -- ISBN 9781644698792 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 540.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 285pp. Bottom corners bumped lightly.

xvii+506 p 24 cm Encuadernación en tela editorial con sobrecubierta en papel. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 214 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine emerald with white lettering. Minor shelf wear. Interior pages clean. Shelved under Judaism. 1387515. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Original pictorial boards, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.

Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Zustand: Very good. First edition. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 220 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, printed paper covered boards, iv, 224 pp., bibliography, index.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 396 pp.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition (Unstated). North American Jewish Studies; 270 pages; Very Good condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Illustrated. Condition: As New; Dust Jacket Condition: Hardcover, no dustjacket a issued. 203 pp. The book is in As New, unread condition. Photos upon request.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine to fine condition. First edition. small Quarto. xxv [i], 621 [1]pp. Photo-illustrated cover in color with white lettering on cover and spine. "The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundred years, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it constituted 40-60% of the total population. The German army entered Kleczew on September 15, 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II. The communities of Kleczew and the vicinity were among the first Jewish collectives in Europe to be totally destroyed. The events presented in this book reveal that the organization of deportations and the methods of mass murder conducted in this district, by Kommando Lange, served as a model that would be applied later in the death camps during the mass extermination of Polish and European Jewry. If so, it was in the woods near Kleczew that the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" began." (Publisher). Minor wear along edges of binding.…

Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Zustand: Very good. First edition. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges an corners of boards. 278 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index. section B.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xx [2], 219, [3] pages. Glossary. Index. Front cover has some wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page The inscription reads: "For Nessa who has come to listen & will share with others, E. P. Maryland MARCH 2012". A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life. What he finds is that the concentration camp inmate Müselmann, who has lost his hunger for life and is thus shunned by his fellow inmates on the soup line, bears an eerie resemblance to an office employee who has fallen from grace and whose coworkers avoid spending time with him at the water cooler. Though the circumstances are unfathomably far apart, the human response to their situations is triggered by self-preservation rather than by calculated evil. By juxtaposing these two separate worlds, Pfefferkorn demonstrates that the human condition has not changed significantly since Cain slew Abel and the Athenians sentenced Socrates. Winner of the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in Holocaust Literature. Eli Pfefferkorn (Ph.D. Brown University) has served as Director of Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, worked as a reviewer for the Literary Supplement of Haaretz, and edited the periodical "Hebrew Literature in Translation." He has worked as a professor at Haifa and Tel-Aviv Universities and has been a guest lecturer at Brown University. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship. Since the passage of time plays tricks with memory, memoirs written in proximity to the Holocaust ordinarily are given greater credence than later works. One would imagine that a survivor's account written more than 65 years after the Holocaust could not find a place in the canon of Holocaust literature, yet Eli Pfefferkorn's "The Muselmann at the Water Cooler" is indeed a significant addition. The word "Muselmann" was how prisoners described the walking dead, who had given into despair and for whom selection to the gas chamber seemed inevitable. Yoking that image to the workaday water cooler gives some idea of the disjunction of experience that Pfefferkorn portrays. His Holocaust experience included ghettoization, hiding and, ultimately, deportation to Majdanek, whose former inmates have written few memoirs. Rather than go to Palestine after the war, he went to England. Still a very young man, with a long future seemingly ahead of him, Eli's restlessness attracted him to the sea. He sought training as a merchant marine. His training attracted the attention of the Zionists, who were preparing for the inevitable War of Independence and sought his seamanship to defend the coastline. Drawn to Palestine by a sense of duty to the past rather than any Zionist aspirations, Eli found himself fighting far from the sea, in the sands of the Negev. Pfefferkorn slowly made his way into Israeli society from the extreme left, gradually undergoing a self-described process of embourgeoisement. Pfefferkorn's insight into Israeli society of the 1950s and '60s reminds us of a bygone era, of its aspirations and pretentions, intellectual and otherwise. Writing in literary journals and in the Friday newspaper literary supplements, he defended a fellow survivor ridiculed by the Canaanites. Elie Wiesel was reviled by earlier Israeli generations for remaining in France and America rather than making aliyah. Pfefferkorn, who worked closely with Wiesel during the early 1980s, when the latter was chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, recounts some of the controversies relating to Wiesel's chairmanship and his resignation en route to accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. The core of this book is not what happened to Pfefferkorn either before or after the war, but rather during the Shoah and his provocative reflections on its implications. His vantage point was unique. His g.…