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Deviancy in early rabbinic literature : a collection of socio-anthropological essays by Fishbane, Simcha

Table of Contents: “…The case of the modified mamzer in early rabbinic texts -- "As the vows of the evil folk" : the structure and implicit message of Mishnah's tractate Nazir -- "In the case of women-any hand which makes many examinations is to be praised" : niddah as viewed by the rabbis of the Mishnah -- "Most women engage in sorcery" : an analysis of female sorceresses in the Babylonian Talmud -- "Go and enjoy your acquisition" : the prostitute in the Babylonian Talmud -- "Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" : the physically handicapped in the Mishnah -- Toward an understanding of the methodology of Mishnah : the case of kutim -- Descriptive or prescriptive : the case of the gentile in Mishnah -- Deviancy in battle : rituals and the Israelite soldier in the Torah and the Mishnah : an anthropological understanding -- "Every dream becomes valid only by its interpretation" : dreams, dream interpretations and dream interpreters in the Babylonian Talmud.…”
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50 writers : an anthology of 20th century Russian short stories / Fifty writers

Table of Contents: “…Once Upon a Time / Leonid Andreyev -- The Invoker of the Beast / Fyodor Sologub -- Gambrinus / Aleksandr Kuprin -- The Little Devil / Aleksei Remizov -- Thus Life Passes / Elena Guro -- Four People / Arkady Averchenko -- Scenes from the Life of the Worker Pantelei Grymzin / Arkady Averchenko -- Black Iris / Nadezhda Teffi -- The Red Crown / Mikhail Bulgakov -- Black Magic / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- The Female Fish / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- Gedali / Isaac Babel -- The Rabbi / Isaac Babel -- The Rabbi's Son / Isaac Babel -- Family Man / Mikhail Sholokhov -- Outgoing Paper No 27 / Lev Lunts -- The Gardener of the Emir of Bukhara / Vsevolod Ivanov -- The Viper / Aleksei Tolstoy -- The Flood / Evgeny Zamyatin -- Doubting Makar / Andrei Platonov -- Blue Notebook Number 10 / Daniil Kharms -- Old Women Tumbling Out / Daniil Kharms -- Kushakov the Carpenter / Daniil Kharms -- A Dream / Daniil Kharms -- The Start of a Very Nice Summer Day / Daniil Kharms -- The Lynching / Daniil Kharms -- Lake, Cloud, Tower / Vladimir Nabokov -- The Smoky Glass Goblet / Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky -- Tanya / Ivan Bunin -- The Tenants / Andrei Sinyavsky -- Eulogy / Varlam Shalamov -- The House with a Turret / Fridrikh Gorenshtein -- "Victory" / Vasily Aksyonov -- Hands / Yuli Daniel -- A German in Felt Boots / Konstantin Vorobyov -- My Uncle of the Highest Principles / Fazil Iskander -- Chudik / Vasily Shukshin -- I Believe! …”
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Voltaire's revolution : writings from his campaign to free laws from religion by Voltaire, 1694-1778

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Grateful Thanks to a Charitable Man (1750); Extract from a Decree by ... the Inquisition (1750); In Defense of Milord Bolingbroke (1752); Dialogue between a Brahmin and a Jesuit (1756); Dialogues between Lucretius and Posidonius (1756); Reflections for Fools (1760); Letter from Charles Gouju to His Brothers (1761); The Sermon of Rabbi Akib (1761); Extract from the London Gazette (1762); Prayer to God (from Treatise on Tolerance) (1763); Catechism of the Honest Man (1763)…”
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The golem and the wondrous deeds of the Maharal of Prague by Rozenberg, Yehudah Yudl, 1859-1935

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New perspectives on Jewish-Christian relations : in honor of David Berger

Table of Contents: “…Genesis 49:10 in thirteenth-century Christian missionizing / Robert Chazan -- The different Hebrew versions of the "Talmud Trial" of 1240 in Paris / Judah Galinsky -- An infant's missionary sermon addressed to the Jews of Rome in 1553 / Robert Bonfil -- Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the alleged Jewish-Christian sect in eighteenth-century Amsterdam / Sid Z. …”
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Beyond Sambation : Selected Essays and Editorials 1928-1955. by Steinberg, M., Caplan, Usher

Table of Contents: “…Struma -- A Great Talmudist -- Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung Interviewed -- The Fifth Column on Parade! …”
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Between Jewish tradition and modernity : rethinking an old opposition : essays in honor of David Ellenson

Table of Contents: “…Caring for an intermarried Jew by converting his partner: Rabbi Uzziel's earliest responsum on Giyur (Salonica, c. 1922) / Zvi Zohar -- Gaining moral guidance from the Jewish tradition: four examples to test David Ellenson's approach and mine / Elliot N. …”
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On Leibniz by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Leibniz on Possible Worlds -- Contingentia Mundi : Leibniz on the World's Contingency -- Leibniz on Intermonadic Relations -- Leibniz and the Plurality of Space-Time Frameworks -- Leibniz and the Concept of a System -- Leibniz and Issues of Eternal Recurrence -- Leibnizian Neo-Platonism and Rational Mechanics -- Leibniz and the World's Improvability -- The Epistemology of Inductive Reasoning in Leibniz -- Leibniz, Keynes, and the Rabbis -- Leibniz and Socialized Medicine -- The Contributions of the Paris Period (1672-1676) to Leibniz's Metaphysics -- Leibniz Finds a Niche (1676-1677) -- Leibniz Visits Vienna (1712-1714) -- Leibniz Crosses the Atlantic -- Leibniz and American Philosophy -- Leibniz and Cryptography -- Leibniz's Machina Deciphratoria : A Seventeenth-Century Proto-Enigma Machine -- Process Philosophy and Monadological Metaphysics -- Was Leibniz Ennobled? …”
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Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto : writing our history

Table of Contents: “…Kaplan -- Charcoal and watercolor sketches (1939-42) / Gela Seksztajn -- The little smuggler / Henryka Łazowert -- Hershek / Stepania Gradzińska -- Song of hunger and songs of the cold / Yitzhak Katzenelson -- From Holy fire / Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira -- From the Notebooks and diary of the great deportation / Abraham Lewin -- Last testament / Israel Lichtenstein -- What can I possibly say and ask for at this moment? …”
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A Jewish Life on Three Continents : the Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden. by Weissbach, Lee

Table of Contents: “…The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden: An Introduction; A Note on Translation and Editing; A Note on References; Acknowledgments; Menachem Mendel Frieden's Apologia; My Father's Family; My Mother's Family; My Father's House; Me and My Youth; My Entry into Heder; On My Way through Yeshivot; Passover and the Holiday Cycle; More Yeshiva Studies; My Studies with Rabbis; Matchmakers and Marriage; America; I Found the Best Woman; My Journey to the Land of Israel and My Early Activities There; The Work of Americans in the Land of Israel and My Role in It; More on Life in the Land of Israel.…”
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Religious confessions and the sciences in the sixteenth century

Table of Contents: “…Kottek -- Science and religious hermeneutics : the "philosophy" of Rabbi Loew of Prague / Giuseppe Veltri -- The relevance of geography for the Jewish religion / Johann Maier.…”
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Birth, marriage and death.

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Oriented

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Jewish ideas and the American founders. / Adams, Jefferson, and the Jews

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60 minutes. / Sixty minutes.

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Saving One's Own : Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust. by Paldiel, Mordecai

Table of Contents: “…Concentration Camps: Flight and Rescue from Hell on Earth and Challenging Himmler; 13. England: A Rabbi and the Religious Obligation to Save; 14. United States: Organizational Assistance amid Conflicting Agendas; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Judaism for Everyone : Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faith. by Boteach, Shmuel

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Jewish ideas and the American founders. / Washington, Seixas, and giving thanks

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Jewish ideas and the American founders. Political Hebraism and the American Revolution / From the Talmud to Thomas Paine :

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Hidden face

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60 minutes. / Sixty minutes.

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Consolation : the spiritual journey beyond grief by Lamm, Maurice

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Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales. by Schwartz, Howard

Table of Contents: “…The Princess on the Glass MountainThe Wonderful Healing Leaves; The Princess with Golden Hair; The Enchanted Journey; The Magic Mirror of Rabbi Adam; The King's Dream; The Boy Israel and the Witch; The Lost Princess; The Prince Who Was Made of Precious Gems; The Water Palace; The Pirate Princess; The Golden Bird; The Imprisoned Princess; The Exiled Princess; The Underground Palace; The City of Luz; Sources; Glossary.…”
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Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature : From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew. by Biberman, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 'His stones, his daughter, and his ducats': The Jew-Devil, the Jew-Sissy and the Theo-Sexual Matrix -- 2 'Madam Rabbi': Representations of Jewish Women in English Renaissance Drama -- 3 'By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men': Donne, Milton and the Rise of the Jew-Sissy -- 4 'She proving false, the next I took to wife': Divorce Law and Violence in Jonson, Cary and Milton -- 5 'He is imitating nobody, and he is inimitable': T.S. …”
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Spirituality and ageing / Spirituality and aging

Table of Contents: “…Crampsey SJ""; ""Harvesting a Lifetime Jenny Goodman""; ""Sageing in the Light of Death Rabbi Zalman Schachter- Shalomi""; ""Death and the Spirituality of Ageing Penelope Wilcock""…”
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To see and not perceive : Isaiah 6.9-10 in early Jewish and Christian interpretation by Evans, Craig A. (Craig Alan), 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE CONTEXT OF ISAIAH; Chapter 2 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN QUMRAN; Chapter 3 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE SEPTUAGINT; Chapter 4 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE TARGUM; Chapter 5 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE PESHITTA; Chapter 6 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN PAUL; Chapter 7 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN MARK; Chapter 8 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN MATTHEW; Chapter 9 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN LUKE -- ACTS; Chapter 10 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN JOHN; Chapter 11 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE RABBIS; Chapter 12 ISAIAH 6.9-10 IN THE FATHERS; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Writings; Index of Modern Authors.…”
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Authority

Table of Contents: “…Prophets -- Chapter 6. Rabbis and Sages -- Chapter 7. Controversy and Dissent -- Chapter 8. …”
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Moses Mendelssohn : writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible / Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible by Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786

Table of Contents: “…Lavater's dedication -- Open letter to Lavater -- From "counter-reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis" -- Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October 1773 -- Letter to "a man of rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar) -- From the preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum -- "The search for light and right" -- Mörschel's postscript -- From Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism -- From letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg -- From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza -- From Morning Hours -- From To Lessing's Friends -- From introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes -- Introduction to translation of Psalms -- From letter to August Hennings, 29 June 1779 -- From Light for the Path -- Selections from the Bi'ur -- On the religious legitimacy of studying logic -- An ontological proof for God's existence -- A cosmological proof for God's existence -- A proof for the immortality of the soul -- A rational foundation for ethics -- On the possibility of miracles -- On the reliability of miracles.…”
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Next year I will know more : literacy and identity among young Orthodox women in Israel by El-Or, Tamar

Table of Contents: “…The Last Modernists: A Class in the Philosophy of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook ""; ""IV: Anthropology and Literacyâ€?…”
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Qumranica Minora II : Thematic Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls. by Martinez, Florentino Garcia

Table of Contents: “…The Genesis of Alexandria, the Rabbis, and Qumran; 14. Divine Sonship at Qumran: between the Old and the New Testament; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Ancient Sources.…”
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Authority

Table of Contents: “…Prophets -- Chapter 6. Rabbis and Sages -- Chapter 7. Controversy and Dissent -- Chapter 8. …”
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Esoteric and exoteric aspects in Judeo-Arabic culture

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Philosophic Mysticism: The Ultimate Goal of Medieval Judaism -- A Mystical Commentary on the Song of Songs in the Hand of David Maimonides II -- Logistical and Other Otherworldly Problems in Saadya -- Judah Halevi on Eschatology and Messianism -- Ittisal and the Amr Ilahi: Divine Immanence and the World to Come in the Kuzari -- Between Halakhic Codification and Ethical Commentary: Rabbi Israel Israeli of Toledo on Intention in Prayer -- Betrothal of an Adult Woman by an Agent in Geonic Responsa: Legal Construction in Accord with Islamic Law -- The Judeo-Arabic Vocabulary of Saadya's Bible Translations as a Vehicle for Eschatological Messages: The Case of Saadya's Usage of the 8th Form of Arabic QDR -- Lexicography and Dialectology in Spanish Maqre Dardeqe -- An Early Karaite Grammatical Treatise -- Jews in Changing Empires of Medieval Islam: Not Only Eschatology and Messianism -- Relations Between Nesi'im and Exilarchs: Competition or Cooperation? …”
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Between feminism and Orthodox Judaism : resistance, identity, and religious change in Israel by Israel-Cohen, Yael

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I Religion, Modernity, and Women; Chapter One Religious Change and Women's Agency in Conservative Religions; Chapter Two Modern Orthodox Judaism and Women's Standing; Chapter Three Methodology; Part II Exclusion and Resistance; Chapter Four The Battle over Women's Standing in Synagogue Ritual; Chapter Five Orthodox Women Rabbis? "It's Only a Matter of Time"; Part III Behind the Label: "I am an Orthodox Feminist"; Chapter Six The Cultural Contextualization of Orthodox Feminist Identity…”
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Pathways through the Bible : classic selections from the Tanakh

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Jewish ideas and the American founders. / Home we build together

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L.A. Mohel by Bezmozgis, David, 1973-

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The ethics of fracking

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Jewish ideas and the American founders. / Continue to water them with the dews of heaven

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The radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan by Scult, Mel

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Jewish faith and modern science : on the death and rebirth of Jewish philosophy by Samuelson, Norbert M., 1936-

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