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.
Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Diemling, Larry Ray
June 28, 2018
The drawing of boundaries has always been a key part of the Jewish tradition and has served to maintain a distinctive Jewish identity. At the same time, these boundaries have consistently been subject to negotiation, transgression and contestation. The increasing fragmentation of Judaism into ...
God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor
1st Edition
By Hershey H. Friedman
November 15, 2017
Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world, and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering. God Laughed reviews, organizes, and categorizes the humor of the ancient Jewish texts the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Midrash in a clear, readable, and ...
Modern Gnosis and Zionism: The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought
1st Edition
By Yotam Hotam
July 27, 2017
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust in the rational ideals of the enlightenment, and consequently by a belief in the existence of a radical ‘cultural crisis’. One response to this crisis was the emergence of ‘Life ...
Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos
1st Edition
By Agata Bielik-Robson
June 16, 2017
This book aims to interpret ‘Jewish Philosophy’ in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a ‘secret message’ which cannot find an open articulation. The Marrano phenomenon is employed here, in the domain of modern philosophical ...
Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence
1st Edition
Edited
By Agata Bielik-Robson, Adam Lipszyc
June 16, 2017
The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and influences – on the other hand, difficult to define, rarely referring to openly revealed ...
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...