Routledge Jewish Studies Series
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Studies, which are interpreted to cover the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, culture, politics, philosophy, theology, religion, as they relate to Jewish affairs. The remit includes texts which have as their primary focus issues, ideas, personalities and events of relevance to Jews, Jewish life and the concepts which have characterised Jewish culture both in the past and today. The series is interested in receiving appropriate scripts or proposals.
Rabbinic Theology and Jewish Intellectual History: The Great Rabbi Loew of Prague
1st Edition
Edited
By Meir Seidler
June 16, 2017
Rabbi Loew (the Maharal) of Prague remains one of the most influential and prolific Jewish thinkers of his time. Widely considered one of the fathers of Hassidic thought and a harbinger of Modern Jewish philosophy, his life and work have retained their influence and remain prevalent today. Adopting...
Jesus among the Jews: Representation and Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Neta Stahl
May 31, 2017
For almost two thousand years, various images of Jesus accompanied Jewish thought and imagination: a flesh-and-blood Jew, a demon, a spoiled student, an idol, a brother, a (failed) Messiah, a nationalist rebel, a Greek god in Jewish garb, and more. This volume charts for the first time the ...
Israeli Holocaust Research: Birth and Evolution
1st Edition
By Boaz Cohen
April 13, 2017
An exploration of the development of Holocaust research in Israel, this book ranges from the consolidation of Holocaust research as an academic subject in the late 1940s to the establishment of Yad Vashem and beyond. Research on the story of historiography is often a work on books, on the "final ...
Kasztner's Crime
1st Edition
By Paul Bogdanor
August 30, 2016
This book re-examines one of the most intense controversies of the Holocaust: the role of Rezs Kasztner in facilitating the murder of most of Nazi-occupied Hungary's Jews in 1944. Because he was acting head of the Jewish rescue operation in Hungary, some have hailed him as a saviour. Others have ...
Emmanuel Levinas and the Limits to Ethics: A Critique and a Re-Appropriation
1st Edition
By Aryeh Botwinick
August 03, 2016
Emanuel Levinas and the Limits to Ethics highlights how radically different Jewish ethics is from Christian ethics, and the profound affinities that subsist between Jewish ethics and philosophical and political liberalism. The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas has captured the imagination of a global ...
Bearing Witness: A Personal Perspective on Sixty Years of Polish History
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Jarosz
July 30, 2015
Bearing Witness offers personal insight into the collective experience of Poles over the last sixty years. One of Poland's leading social scientists combines objective, academic rigor with autobiographical, eyewitness accounts of historic events. Maria Jarosz reflects on the post-World War II world...
Jewish Women's Torah Study: Orthodox Religious Education and Modernity
1st Edition
By Ilan Fuchs
July 22, 2015
One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership. Jewish Women’s Torah Study addresses the question of women's integration in the halachic-religious system at this pivotal intersection...
Jewish Education and History: Continuity, crisis and change
1st Edition
By Moshe Aberbach
March 31, 2015
Moshe Aberbach (1924-2007) was a leading educator and scholar in Jewish studies, specialising in the field of Jewish education in the talmudic period. This book draws on a representative selection of his writings over a fifty year period, and includes essays on Saadia Gaon and Maimonides, coverage ...
God, Jews and the Media: Religion and Israel’s Media
1st Edition
By Yoel Cohen
November 10, 2014
In order to understand contemporary Jewish identity in the twenty-first century, one needs to look beyond the Synagogue, the holy days and Jewish customs and law to explore such modern phenomena as mass media and their impact upon Jewish existence. This book delves into the complex relationship ...
German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch
1st Edition
By David A. Brenner
March 27, 2014
David A. Brenner examines how Jews in Central Europe developed one of the first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. Not exclusively "German" or "Jewish," the experiences of German-speaking Jewry in the decades prior to the Third Reich and the Holocaust were also negotiated in encounters ...
The Jews as a Chosen People: Tradition and transformation
1st Edition
By S. Leyla Gurkan
March 27, 2014
The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, ...
Collaboration with the Nazis: Public Discourse after the Holocaust
1st Edition
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By Roni Stauber
March 19, 2014
This book examines the changes in representing collaboration, during the Holocaust, especially in the destruction of European Jewry, in the public discourse and the historiography of various countries in Europe that were occupied by the Germans, or were considered, at least during part of the war, ...