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.
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 '...
Philosophy in a Time of Crisis: Don Isaac Abravanel: Defender of the Faith
1st Edition
By Seymour Feldman
June 18, 2010
The expulsion from Spain did not only result in the destruction and dispersion of Spanish Jewry but led to a crisis in Jewish faith. Don Isaac Abravanel provided a systematic treatment of the main philosophical and theological beliefs of Judaism in an attempt to resolve the inner doubts of his ...
Hebrew Language and Jewish Thought
1st Edition
By David Patterson
September 07, 2009
Drawing on more than three hundred Hebrew roots, the author shows that Jewish thought employs Hebrew concepts and categories that are altogether distinct from those that characterize the Western speculative tradition. Among the key categories that shape Jewish thought are holiness, ...
Jews and India: Perceptions and Image
1st Edition
By Yulia Egorova
July 17, 2009
Exploring the image of Jews in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book looks at both the Indian attitudes towards the Jewish communities of the subcontinent and at the way Jews and Judaism in general have been represented in Indian discourse. Despite the fact that the ...
Antisemitism and Modernity: Innovation and Continuity
1st Edition
By Hyam Maccoby
June 09, 2009
The subject of anti-Semitism, not long ago thought to be a dead issue, has been revised due to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Maccoby traces the now topical discussion of the origins of Anti-Semitism, and especially its development in the modern world. The key questions ...
Deconstructing the Bible: Abraham ibn Ezra's Introduction to the Torah
1st Edition
By Irene Lancaster
May 30, 2007
Deconstructing the Bible represents the first attempt by a single author to place the great Spanish Jewish Hebrew bible exegete, philosopher, poet, astronomer, astrologer and scientist Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) in his complete contextual environment. It charts his unusual travels and ...
Jews, Muslims and Mass Media: Mediating the 'Other'
1st Edition
Edited
By Yulia Egorova, Yulia Egorova, Tudor Parfitt
May 16, 2007
This text looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and Muslims generally receive a 'bad press'. This book will try to reveal why. The media have clearly played a pro-active role in the Middle East conflict, the ...
Moses Maimonides
1st Edition
By Oliver Leaman
October 10, 1997
Moses Maimonides (1135--1204) is recognized both as a leading Jewish thinker and as one of the most radical philosophers of the Islamic world. The study reveals the significance of Maimonides to contemporary philosophical and theological problems....