Routledge Jewish Studies Series
About the Book Series
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 Judaism: Space and Place
1st Edition
By David Kraemer
December 12, 2019
In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, Jews were faced with a world in existential chaos—both they and their God were rendered homeless. In a religious tradition that had equated Divine approval with peaceful dwelling ...
Rabbis of our Time: Authorities of Judaism in the Religious and Political Ferment of Modern Times
1st Edition
By Marek Čejka, Roman Kořan
December 12, 2019
The term ‘rabbi’ predominantly denotes Jewish men qualified to interpret the Torah and apply halacha, or those entrusted with the religious leadership of a Jewish community. However, the role of the rabbi has been understood differently across the Jewish world. While in Israel they control legally ...
Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Alexander, Beth Berkowitz
December 12, 2019
Religious Studies and Rabbinics have overlapping yet distinct interests, subject matter, and methods. Religious Studies is committed to the study of religion writ large. It develops theories and methods intended to apply across religious traditions. Rabbinics, by contrast, is dedicated to a defined...
The Bible and the 'Holy Poor': From the Tanakh to Les Mis�bles
1st Edition
By David Aberbach
December 12, 2019
The Hebrew Bible is the main legislative and literary influence on European Poor Law and on literature on poverty and the poor. No extant literature from the ancient world placed more importance upon social welfare and the duty of the better-off toward the poor. It is the founding text for ...
The Name of God in Jewish Thought: A Philosophical Analysis of Mystical Traditions from Apocalyptic to Kabbalah
1st Edition
By Michael T Miller
December 12, 2019
One of the most powerful traditions of the Jewish fascination with language is that of the Name. Indeed, the Jewish mystical tradition would seem a two millennia long meditation on the nature of name in relation to object, and how name mediates between subject and object. Even within the tide of ...
Violence and Messianism: Jewish Philosophy and the Great Conflicts of the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Petar Bojanić
December 12, 2019
Violence and Messianism looks at how some of the figures of the so-called Renaissance of "Jewish" philosophy between the two world wars - Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber - grappled with problems of violence, revolution and war. At once inheriting and breaking with the great ...
War and Peace in Jewish Tradition: From the Biblical World to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Yigal Levin, Amnon Shapira
December 12, 2019
The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times. However, the ways in which both concepts are understood have changed many times over the ages, and both have different implications for an independent nation in its own land than ...
On Liberty: Jewish Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
By Daniel Frank
March 05, 2019
The communitarian critic of liberalism argues that the socio-political context is fundamental to any understanding of the individual as such. This debate is advanced by particularising it to the experience of Jews in the modern world. Essays focus on the variety of views of the relationships ...
The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy: The God-intoxicated heretic
1st Edition
By Yuval Jobani
January 10, 2019
Spinoza is commonly perceived as the great metaphysician of coherence. The Euclidean manner in which he presented his philosophy in the Ethics has led readers to assume they are facing a strict and consistent philosophical system that necessarily follows from itself. As opposed to the prevailing ...
The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn: Aesthetics, Religion & Morality in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Leah Hochman
October 18, 2018
The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn examines the idea of ugliness through four angles: philosophical aesthetics, early anthropology, physiognomy and portraiture in the eighteenth-century. Highlighting a theory that describes the benefit of encountering ugly objects in art and nature, ...
The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth
1st Edition
Edited
By Esther Webman
August 10, 2018
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it ...
The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939: A Study of Literature and Social Psychology
1st Edition
By David Aberbach
August 09, 2018
The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holocaust. Emancipation and hope of emancipation amongst the European Jewish population created a plethora of Jewish identities and forms of patriotism. ...