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.
A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption
1st Edition
By Norbert Samuelson
September 30, 2010
This user-friendly guide will help students of the 'Star' to be able to discuss at a basic level what, at least conceptually, Rosenzweig intended to say and how all that he says is interrelated....
Judaism, Philosophy, Culture: Selected Studies by E. I. J. Rosenthal
1st Edition
By Erwin Rosenthal
September 30, 2010
One of the outstanding interpreters of Jewish culture in the twentieth century has been Erwin Rosenthal. This book contains some of his most influential work, ranging from the nature of Jewish political thought, both classical and medieval, to Christian reactions to Judaism and to varying ...
Philosophy of the Talmud
1st Edition
By Hyam Maccoby
September 30, 2010
This is a new presentation of the philosophy of the Talmud. The Talmud is not a work of formal philosophy, but much of what it says is relevant to philosophical enquiry, including issues explored in contemporary debates. In particular, the Talmud has original ideas about the relation between ...
Contemporary Jewish Philosophy: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Irene Kajon
August 11, 2010
This text introduces the most important Jewish philosophers of contemporary times from the point of view of their original approach to both Judaism and philosophy and include: Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenweig, Martin Buber, Leo Strauss, Emmanuel Levinas. It shows how for them the dialogue between ...
The Jews of Ethiopia: The Birth of an Elite
1st Edition
Edited
By Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi
August 09, 2010
This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on Europe and the role played by German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, it investigates such ...
The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture: A History of the Other
1st Edition
By Abraham Melamed
July 20, 2010
The evolving image of the Black in the history of Jewish culture is being traced here in the conceptual framework of recent post-modern theories of the 'other'. The study focuses on the mechanisms by which an ethno-religious minority group considered by the dominant majority to be the inferior '...
Jewish Mysticism and Magic: An Anthropological Perspective
1st Edition
By Maureen Bloom
July 06, 2010
Providing a unique anthropological perspective on Jewish mysticism and magic, this book is a study of Jewish rites and rituals and how the analysis of early literature provides the roots for understanding religious practices. It includes analysis on the importance of sacrifice, amulets, and names, ...
Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed: Silence and Salvation
1st Edition
By Donald McCallum
July 06, 2010
Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death. The author examines the apparent tensions and contradictions...
Art in Zion: The Genesis of Modern National Art in Jewish Palestine
1st Edition
By Dalia Manor
June 25, 2010
Art in Zion deals with the link between art and national ideology and specifically between the artistic activity that emerged in Jewish Palestine in the first decades of the twentieth century and the Zionist movement. In order to examine the development of national art in Jewish Palestine, the...
Jewish Cultural Nationalism: Origins and Influences
1st Edition
By David Aberbach
June 25, 2010
Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts which signified, or themselves brought about, change: the Bible (Hebrew prayer book), and the modern Hebrew literature, ...
The Jewish-Chinese Nexus: A Meeting of Civilizations
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Avrum Ehrlich
June 25, 2010
The Jewish Chinese Nexus explores through a collection of articles the nexus between two of the oldest, intact, starkly contrasting and most interesting civilizations on earth; Jews and Chinese. This volume studies how they are interacting in modernity; how they view each other and what areas of ...
Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration
1st Edition
By Todd Samuel Presner
June 18, 2010
Providing valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically weak, intellectual Jew. It charts the cultural and intellectual history showing how the '...