Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology

Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : 9789004306592
ISBN-13 : 9004306595
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology by : Ann Killebrew

In honor of eminent archaeologist and historian of ancient Jewish art, Rachel Hachlili, friends and colleagues offer contributions in this festschrift which span the world of ancient Judaism both in Palestine and the Diaspora. Hachlili's distinctive research interests: synagogues, burial sites, and Jewish iconography receive particular attention in the volume. Archaeologists and historians present new material evidence from Galilee, Jerusalem, and Transjordan, contributing to the honoree’s fields of scholarly study. Fresh analyses of ancient Jewish art, essays on architecture, historical geography, and research history complete the volume and make it an enticing kaleidoscope of the vibrant field of scholarship that owes so much to Rachel.

Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity
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Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9781009280518
ISBN-13 : 1009280511
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity by : Simcha Gross

From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire temples, imperial administrators, Sasanian laws, Persian customs, and more quotidian details of Jewish life. Yet, in the scholarly literature on the Babylonian Talmud and the Jews of Babylonia , the Sasanian Empire has served as a backdrop to a decidedly parochial Jewish story, having little if any direct impact on Babylonian Jewish life and especially the rabbis. Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity advances a radically different understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and Sasanian rule. Building upon recent scholarship, Simcha Gross portrays a more immanent model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves. Babylonian Jews realized their traditions, teachings, and social position within the political, social, religious, and cultural conditions generated by Sasanian rule.

Producing Redemption in Amsterdam

Producing Redemption in Amsterdam
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9789004247857
ISBN-13 : 9004247858
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Producing Redemption in Amsterdam by : Shlomo Berger

Producing Redemption in Amsterdam offers an analysis of Yiddish early modern paratexts and subseuqently a history of Yiddish printed books.

Lviv – Wrocław, Cities in Parallel?

Lviv – Wrocław, Cities in Parallel?
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Publisher : Central European University Press
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 9789633863244
ISBN-13 : 9633863244
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Lviv – Wrocław, Cities in Parallel? by : Jan Fellerer

After World War II, Europe witnessed the massive redrawing of national borders and the efforts to make the population fit those new borders. As a consequence of these forced changes, both Lviv and Wrocław went through cataclysmic changes in population and culture. Assertively Polish prewar Lwów became Soviet Lvov, and then, after 1991, it became assertively Ukrainian Lviv. Breslau, the third largest city in Germany before 1945, was in turn "recovered" by communist Poland as Wrocław. Practically the entire population of Breslau was replaced, and Lwów's demography too was dramatically restructured: many Polish inhabitants migrated to Wrocław and most Jews perished or went into exile. The forced migration of these groups incorporated new myths and the construction of official memory projects. The chapters in this edited book compare the two cities by focusing on lived experiences and "bottom-up" historical processes. Their sources and methods are those of micro-history and include oral testimonies, memoirs, direct observation and questionnaires, examples of popular culture, and media pieces. The essays explore many manifestations of the two sides of the same coin—loss on the one hand, gain on the other—in two cities that, as a result of the political reality of the time, are complementary.

Cornucopia

Cornucopia
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Publisher : Giorgio Bretschneider editore
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9788876893155
ISBN-13 : 8876893156
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Cornucopia by : M. Eisenberg

The studies presented in the book express the spirit of A. Segal research work and reflect his interest and curiosity in a wide spectrum of Classical archaeology, such as town planning and architecture in the Graeco-Roman world, Roman theatres, Roman temples, Herodian art and architecture, Nabataean art and architecture, architectural decoration, and more.

2004

2004
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 9783110947106
ISBN-13 : 3110947102
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis 2004 by : Sara Grosvald

This work includes international secondary literature on anti-Semitism published throughout the world, from the earliest times to the present. It lists books, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections from a diverse range of disciplines. Written accounts are included among the recorded titles, as are manifestations of anti-Semitism in the visual arts (e.g. painting, caricatures or film), action taken against Jews and Judaism by discriminating judiciaries, pogroms, massacres and the systematic extermination during the Nazi period. The bibliography also covers works dealing with philo-Semitism or Jewish reactions to anti-Semitism and Jewish self-hate. An informative abstract in English is provided for each entry, and Hebrew titles are provided with English translations.

A Targumist Interprets the Torah: Contradictions and Coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan

A Targumist Interprets the Torah: Contradictions and Coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9789004503830
ISBN-13 : 9004503838
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis A Targumist Interprets the Torah: Contradictions and Coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan by : Iosif J Zhakevich

This book conducts a study of contradictions and coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and suggests that the alleged contradictions are ultimately given to resolution, once the greater context of biblical and Jewish tradition is taken into consideration.

How the West Became Antisemitic

How the West Became Antisemitic
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9780691258201
ISBN-13 : 0691258201
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis How the West Became Antisemitic by : Ivan G. Marcus

An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways In medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews and Christians considered themselves to be God’s chosen people. These dueling claims fueled the rise of both cultures as they became rivals for supremacy. In How the West Became Antisemitic, Ivan Marcus shows how Christian and Jewish competition in medieval Europe laid the foundation for modern antisemitism. Marcus explains that Jews accepted Christians as misguided practitioners of their ancestral customs, but regarded Christianity as idolatry. Christians, on the other hand, looked at Jews themselves—not Judaism—as despised. They directed their hatred at a real and imagined Jew: theoretically subordinate, but sometimes assertive, an implacable “enemy within.” In their view, Jews were permanently and physically Jewish—impossible to convert to Christianity. Thus Christians came to hate Jews first for religious reasons, and eventually for racial ones. Even when Jews no longer lived among them, medieval Christians could not forget their former neighbors. Modern antisemitism, based on the imagined Jew as powerful and world dominating, is a transformation of this medieval hatred. A sweeping and well-documented history of the rivalry between Jewish and Christian civilizations during the making of Europe, How the West Became Antisemitic is an ambitious new interpretation of the medieval world and its impact on modernity.

Warsaw Ghetto Police

Warsaw Ghetto Police
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781501754098
ISBN-13 : 1501754092
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Warsaw Ghetto Police by : Katarzyna Person

In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service. Person tracks the everyday life of policemen as their involvement with the horrors of ghetto life gradually increased. Facing and engaging with brutality, corruption, and the degradation and humiliation of their own people, these policemen found it virtually impossible to exercise individual agency. While some saw the Jewish police as fellow victims, others viewed them as a more dangerous threat than the German occupation authorities; both were held responsible for the destruction of a historically important and thriving community. Person emphasizes the complexity of the situation, the policemen's place in the network of social life in the ghetto, and the difficulty behind the choices that they made. By placing the actions of the Jewish Order Service in historical context, she explores both the decisions that its members were forced to make and the consequences of those actions. Featuring testimonies of members of the Jewish Order Service, and of others who could see them as they themselves could not, Warsaw Ghetto Police brings these impossible situations to life. It also demonstrates how a community chooses to remember those whose allegiances did not seem clear. Published in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Judea under Roman Domination

Judea under Roman Domination
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Publisher : SBL Press
Total Pages : 553
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ISBN-10 : 9780884142218
ISBN-13 : 0884142213
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Judea under Roman Domination by : Nadav Sharon

Investigate a relatively neglected but momentous period in Judean history Nadav Sharon closely examines a critical period in Judean history, which saw the end of the Hasmonean dynasty and the beginning of Roman domination of Judea leading up to the kingship of Herod (67-37 BCE). In this period renowned Roman figures such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Gaius Cassius (a conspirator against Caesar), and Mark Anthony, led the Roman Republic on the eve of its transformation into an Empire, each having his own dealings with—and holding sway over—Judea at different times. This volume explores the impact of the Roman conquest on the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, enhances the understanding of later Judean-Roman relations and the roots of the Great Revolt, and examines how this early period of Roman domination had on impact on later developments in Judean society and religion. Features: Part one dedicating to reconstructing Judean history from the death of Alexander to the reign of King Herod Part two examining the effects of Roman domination on Judean society Maps, illustrations, and appendices