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Olam ha-zeh v'olam ha-ba : this world and the world to come in Jewish belief and practice / ʻOlam ha-zeh ṿe-ʻolam ha-ba

Table of Contents: “…"The end of the world and the world to come" : what apocalyptic literature says about the time after the end-time / Dereck Daschke -- Warriors, wives, and wisdom : this world and the world to come in the (so-called) apocrypha / Nicolae Roddy -- The afterlife in the Septuagint / Leonard Greenspoon -- Rabbi Akiva, other martyrs, and Socrates : on life, death, and life after life / Naftali Rothenberg -- Heaven on earth : the world to come and its (dis)locations / Christine Hayes -- Olam Ha-ba in rabbinic literature : a functional reading / Dov Weiss -- Dining in(to) the world to come / Jordan D. …”
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Time, astronomy, and calendars in the Jewish tradition by Stern, Sacha

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on the astronomical chapters of Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer / Katharina Keim -- Some early Islamic and Christian sources regarding the Jewish calendar (9th-11th centuries) / François de Blois -- The Jewish calendar controversy of 921-22: reconstructing the manuscripts and their transmission history / Marina Rustow and Sacha Stern -- The Hebrew calendrical bookshelf of the early twelfth century: the cases of Abraham bar Ḥiyya and Jacob bar Samson / Ilana Wartenberg -- Scribal prerogative in modifying calendrical tables / Israel M. …”
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Black Israel

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Wrestling with the angel : literary writings and reflections on death, dying and bereavement by Koppelman, Kent L.

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Masterpieces of Hebrew literature : selections from 2000 years of Jewish creativity

Table of Contents: “…""THE TRAVEL DIARY OF DAVID REUBENI""""JOSEPH CARO: Introduction""; ""SHULHAN ARUKH""; ""LEON OF MODENA: Introduction""; ""ON GAMBLING""; ""RESPONSA: JEWS AND MUSIC""; ""LIFE IN LOMBARDY""; ""MOSES HAYIM LUZZATTO: Introduction""; ""THE PATH OF THE UPRIGHT""; ""NACHMAN OF BRATSLAV: Introduction""; ""THE RABBI AND HIS ONLY SON""; ""ERRATA""; ""SOURCES""…”
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Wrestling with God and men : homosexuality in the Jewish tradition by Greenberg, Steven, 1956 June 19-

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Queer Jews

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: heeding Isaiah's call / David Shneer and Caryn Aviv -- Creating our histories: a look back at Twice Blessed / Avi Rose and Christie Balka -- How a "liberationist" Fem understands being a queer Jew, or how taking advice from a prophet, even a Jewish one, is (Un)transformative / Joan Nestle -- The writing on the wall: on being a Jewish writer, a Lesbian Writer, and a Jewish Lexbian writer / Leslea Newman -- A gay Orthodox Rabbi / Steve Greenberg -- Jewish Dyke baby-making / Hadar Dubowsky -- A young man from Chelm: or a nontraditionally gendered Hebrew school teacher tells all / Jaron Kanegson -- Queer naked Seder and other newish Jewish traditions/ Jill Nagle -- Whose side are you on?…”
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Persecution, polemic, and dialogue : essays in Jewish-Christian relations by Berger, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Religion, nationalism, and historiography : Yehezkel Kaufmann's account of Jesus and early Christianity -- The "Jewish contribution" to Christianity -- Jewish-Christian relations : a Jewish perspective -- Reflections on conversion and proselytizing in Judaism and Christianity -- On Dominus Iesus and the Jews -- Revisiting "confrontation" after forty years : a response to Rabbi Eugene Korn -- Dabru Emet : some reservations about a Jewish statement on Christians and Christianity -- Jews, Christians and The passion.…”
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The clay lamps from ancient Sepphoris : light use and regional interactions by Lapp, Eric C.

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Employer's Rights : Your Legal Handbook from Hiring to Termination and Everything in Between. by Fleischer, Charles H.

Table of Contents: “…""Other Taxable Payments""""State Withholding Requirements""; ""Earned Income Credit""; ""Deposit and Reporting Requirements""; ""Credits for Employing the Disadvantaged""; ""Chapter 8: Leave Policies""; ""Vacation and Sick Leave""; ""FMLA Coverage and Eligibility""; ""FMLA Benefits""; ""Military Leave""; ""Other Types of Leave""; ""Paid Time Off""; ""Chapter 9: Deferred Compensation and ERISA""; ""Deferred Compensation""; ""ERISA""; ""Spousal Rights to Pension Benefits""; ""Top Hat and Excess Benefit Plans""; ""Rabbi Trusts""; ""Chapter 10: Group Health and Other Voluntary Plans""; ""COBRA""…”
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East meets West in the Middle Ages and early modern times : transcultural experiences in the premodern world

Table of Contents: “…-- Jewish travelers in the Middle Ages -- A parallel Christian travel account and literary narrative: Fortunatus -- Jewish communities in the diaspora -- Historical contacts between East and West -- Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbona -- Additional Jewish perspectives -- Christian Pilgrim narratives in the late Middle Ages -- The most astute observer and reporter: Felix Fabri -- A brief comparison with Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron -- Trouble and conflicts: Christian pilgrims and Muslim population -- Bernhard von Breydenbach's Peregrinatio -- Other contacts and contact zones -- Europeans and the Ottoman World -- Anton von Pforr's German adaptation of Indian literature: cross-cultural experiences in the late Middle Ages -- Origin and framework of this volume -- Summaries of the contributions and critical reflections -- Conclusion and outlook…”
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Multiculturalism Observed : Exploring Identity. by Lewis, Richard

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A Momentary Glory : Last Poems. by Shapiro, Harvey, 1924-2013

Table of Contents: “…. . ."; The Distance; Rabbi Nachman's Parable; For Adin; Dejection; The Mother of Invention; Planning; Honestly.…”
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Thinking impossibilities : the intellectual legacy of Amos Funkenstein

Table of Contents: “…Jewish Traditionalism and Early Modern Science: Rabbi Israel Zamosc's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Berlin, 1744) / Gad Freudenthal -- 4. …”
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Abraham's children : liberty and tolerance in an age of religious conflict

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Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : on Jews and Judaism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple

Table of Contents: “…Levine -- Legal midrash between Hillel and Rabbi Akiva : did 70 CE make a difference? / Paul Mandel -- Liturgy before and after the Temple's destruction : change or continuity / Esther G. …”
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The exegetical encounter between Jews and Christians in late antiquity

Table of Contents: “…Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 4:36 -- Chapter 8 -- Creating Women's Voices: Sarah and Tamar in Some Syriac Narrative Poems -- Chapter 9 -- Genesis 15 in Rabbinic and Patristic Interpretation -- Chapter 10 -- 'And Abraham Had Faith': But In What? Ephrem and the Rabbis on Abraham and God's Blessings -- Chapter 11 -- Abraham's Angels: Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 1819 -- Chapter 12 -- Keeping it in the Family? …”
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Knowledge and profanation : transgressing the boundaries of religion in premodern scholarship

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 The Sacred and the Profane in Art, Literature and Parody; Chapter 1 Lucian of Samosata on Magic and Superstition; Chapter 2 Rabbi Lazarus and the Rich Man: A Talmudic Parody of the Late Roman Hell (Yerushalmi Hagigah 2.2, 77d and Sanhedrin 6.9, 23c); Chapter 3 Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti's Call for Reform of Christian Art; Chapter 4 The Sacred Becomes Profane -- The Profane Becomes Sacred: Observations on the Desubstantialisation of Religious Discourse in the Early Modern Age…”
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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects. by Woolfson, Shivaun

Table of Contents: “…Berl Glazer -- 'Do you know, there were four rabbis in my mother's family?'Fania Brantsovsky -- 'When the man came each Friday to deliver our newspapers and he was asked who was at the door, he would answer: "The bearer of culture"' ; Chasia Spanerflig -- 'We were taught that we have to be as strong …”
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Son of Saul

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry : Volume XIX: Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege. by Mendelsohn, Ezra

Table of Contents: “…Hungarian Jewish Politics from the End of the Second World War until the Collapse of CommunismThe Vicious Circle: Jews in Communist Poland, 1944-1956; Romanian Jewry under Rabbi Moses Rosen during the Ceausescu Regime; Essays; The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia and the Evolution of the St. …”
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Studies in medieval Jewish poetry : a message upon the garden

Table of Contents: “…"I asked about a Ḥasid, not a ruler" : the Ḥasid as a ruler in the poetry of Rabbi Judah Halevi / Ephraim Hazan ; Le surnom amoureux dans la poésie liturgique de Pessaḥ de Judah Halevi / Eric Dahan.…”
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Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches in History. by Safire, William

Table of Contents: “…Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie AntoinetteHenry Lee Remembers George Washington; Daniel Webster Puts a Speech in the Mouth of John Adams; Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog; Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Burns; Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man; Humanist Robert Green Ingersoll Speaks at His Brother's Grave; James Blaine of Maine Eulogizes Assassinated President Garfield; Jane Addams Praises George Washington; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Offers a Tribute to Lincoln; Will Rogers Eulogizes Woodrow Wilson.…”
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Torah in the observatory : Gersonides, Maimonides, Song of Songs by Kellner, Menachem Marc, 1946-

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Abraham's children : liberty and tolerance in an age of religious conflict

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New Israel/New England : Jews and Puritans in early America by Hoberman, Michael

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In God's name : genocide and religion in the twentieth century

Table of Contents: “…Sheetz-Nguyen -- Denial and defiance in the work of Rabbi Regina Jones / Katharina von Kellenbach -- A personal account / Gabor Vermes.…”
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Stop trafficking in human beings : together it's possible : proceedings of the international conference 21st century slavery, the human rights dimension to trafficking in human bei...

Table of Contents: “…Vitillo -- Trafficking in human beings : a rabbi's perspective / David Bateman -- Power and passion : government and religious communities together in combating trafficking / Lauran Bethell -- Against the worldwide trafficking in human beings as modern-day form of slavery (looking from traditional Islamic perspective) / Nevad Kahteran -- The Romanian Orthodox Church and its contribution to fighting against trafficking in persons / Cosmin Grigorescu -- The role of governments / Liudmil Tenev -- Trafficking in human beings / Jaulio A.C. …”

The long search.

American Jewish fiction by Lambert, Joshua N.

Table of Contents: “…Doctorow -- Double or nothing: a real fictitious discourse (1971) / Raymond Federman -- Jacob's son (1971) / Ben Field -- The pagan rabbi and other stories (1971) / Cynthia Ozick -- Edwin Mullhouse: the life and death of an American writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright (1972) / Steven Millhauser -- My name is Asher Lev (1972) / Chaim Potok -- In the days of Simon Stern (1973) / Arthur A. …”
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American Jewish fiction by Lambert, Joshua N.

Table of Contents: “…Doctorow -- Double or nothing: a real fictitious discourse (1971) / Raymond Federman -- Jacob's son (1971) / Ben Field -- The pagan rabbi and other stories (1971) / Cynthia Ozick -- Edwin Mullhouse: the life and death of an American writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright (1972) / Steven Millhauser -- My name is Asher Lev (1972) / Chaim Potok -- In the days of Simon Stern (1973) / Arthur A. …”
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Jesus beyond Christianity : the classic texts

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Jews and the Civil War : a reader

Table of Contents: “…Sokolow -- The abolitionists and the Jews : some further thoughts / Louis Ruchames -- Isaac Mayer Wise and the Civil War / Sefton D. Temkin -- Baltimore rabbis during the Civil War / Isaac M. Fein -- Divided loyalties in 1861 : the decision of Major Alfred Mordecai / Stanley L. …”
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Shouting down the silence : a biography of Stanley Elkin by Dougherty, David C.

Table of Contents: “…Disney World and Alaskan Rabbis: A Masterpiece, a Flop, the Elkin Essay, and More Bad Medical News, 1983-88…”
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The words of the wise are like goads : engaging Qoheleth in the 21st century

Table of Contents: “…Christianson""; ""Qohelet and the Rabbis""; ""Ruth Sandberg""; ""Ecclesiastes and the Reformers""; ""Al Wolters""; ""Sweet and Lawful Delights: Puritan Interpretations of Ecclesiastes""; ""Cristian G. …”
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The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

Table of Contents: “…; 2 Friends and Strangers/Poets and Rabbis: Negotiating a "Capuphalian" Philosophy of Religion; Response by Merold Westphal; Response by John D. …”
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Jews and the Civil War : a reader

Table of Contents: “…Sokolow -- The abolitionists and the Jews : some further thoughts / Louis Ruchames -- Isaac Mayer Wise and the Civil War / Sefton D. Temkin -- Baltimore rabbis during the Civil War / Isaac M. Fein -- Divided loyalties in 1861 : the decision of Major Alfred Mordecai / Stanley L. …”
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Jewish studies at the crossroads of anthropology and history : authority, diaspora, tradition

Table of Contents: “…: authority, cultural identity, and the shaping of postwar American Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Rabbis and their (in)famous magic : classical foundations, medieval and early modern reverberations / J.H. …”
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Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world

Table of Contents: “…(Gal 5:12): Circumcision and Emasculation in the Letter to the Galatians; Chapter 14 Rabbis and Romanization: A Review Essay; Chapter 15 Subversion and Subculture: Jewish Time-Keeping in the Roman Empire; Chapter 16 Elijah's Cave in Haifa: Whose Holy Site is this Anyway?…”
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Shouting down the silence : a biography of Stanley Elkin by Dougherty, David C.

Table of Contents: “…Disney World and Alaskan Rabbis: A Masterpiece, a Flop, the Elkin Essay, and More Bad Medical News, 1983-88…”
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