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The expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
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ISBN: 1874774412 1904113281 1909821004 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Littman library of Jewish civilization

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The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain' is a detailed study of the events surrounding this infamous chapter in Spanish history. Based on hundreds of documents discovered, deciphered, and analyzed during decades of intensive archival research, this work focuses on the practical consequences of the expulsion both for those expelled and those remaining behind. It responds to basic questions such as: What became of property owned by Jewish individuals and communities? What became of outstanding debts between Jews and Christians? How was the edict of expulsion implemented? Who was in charge? How did they operate? What happened to those who converted to Christianity in order to remain in Spain or return to that country? The material summarized and analyzed in this study also sheds light on Jewish life in Spain preceding the expulsion. For example, Jews are shown to have been present in remote villages where they were not hitherto known to have lived, and documents detailing lawsuits between Christians related to debts left behind by Jews reveal much about business and financial relations between Jews and Christians. By focusing on the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in such detail - for example, by naming the magistrates who presided over the confiscation of Jewish communal property - Professor Beinart takes history out of the realm of abstraction and gives it concrete reality.


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A Critical Theology of Genesis : The Non-Absolute God
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ISBN: 9781137595089 1137595086 1137595094 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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In this book Itzhak Benyamini presents an alternative reading of Genesis, a close textual analysis from the story of creation to the binding of Isaac. This reading offers the possibility of a soft relation to God, not one characterized by fear and awe. The volume presents Don-Abraham-Quixote not as a perpetual knight of faith but as a cunning believer in the face of God's demands of him. Benyamini reads Genesis without making concessions to God, asking about Him before He examines the heart of Adam, Noah, Abraham, and the other knights of faith (if they are really that). In this way, the commentary on Genesis becomes a platform for a new type of critical theology. Through this unconventional rereading of the familiar biblical text, the book attempts to extract a different ethic, one that challenges the Kierkegaardian demand of blind faith in an all-knowing moral God and offers in its stead an alternative, everyday ethic. The ethic that Benyamini uncovers is characterized by family continuity and tradition intended to ensure that very axis—familial permanence and resilience in the face of the demanding and capricious law of God and the everyday hardships of life. .

The paradoxical ascent to God : the kabbalistic theosophy of Habad Hasidism.
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ISBN: 0791410455 0791410463 Year: 2011 Publisher: Albany State university of New York press

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The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image
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ISBN: 9786612356537 1282356534 0520925076 1597346276 9780520925076 0585441154 9780585441153 9781597346276 6612356537 0520223942 9780520223943 9781282356535 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual center of Vilna, revered throughout Eastern Europe for his learning and his ability to traverse with ease seemingly opposed domains of thought and activity. After his death, the myth that had been woven around him became even more powerful and was expressed in various public images. The formation of these images was influenced as much by the needs and wishes of those who clung to and depended on them as by the actual figure of the Gaon. In this penetrating study, Immanuel Etkes sheds light on aspects of the Vilna Gaon's "real" character and traces several public images of him as they have developed and spread from the early nineteenth century until the present.

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Hasidism --- Rabbis --- Chasidism --- Hassidism --- Jewish sects --- Jewish rabbis --- Clergy --- Jewish scholars --- Judaism --- History --- Functionaries --- Elijah ben Solomon, --- Gra, --- Ha-Gra, --- Vilniaus Gaonas, --- Kremeris, Elijas Zalmanas, --- Elijah, --- Gera, --- ha-Gera, --- Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, --- Eliyahu, --- Elijah Gaon, --- Vilna Gaon, --- Gaon, Elijah, --- Wilner Gaon, --- Gaon of Vilna, --- Solomon, Elijah ben, --- Solomon Zalman, Elijah ben, --- Eliyahu ben Shelomoh, --- Shelomoh, Eliyahu ben, --- Eliyahu ben Shelomoh Zalman, --- Shelomoh Zalman, Eliyahu ben, --- Vilna, Gaon of, --- Wilna, Elijah of, --- Vilna, Elijah ben Solomon, --- Ṿilna, Eliyahu mi-, --- Kramer, Eliyahu, --- Eliohu, --- Wilner Goen, --- Gaʼon, --- אילהו בן שלמה, --- אךיהו גאון וחסיד מווילנא --- אלוהו בן שלמה, --- אליה בן שלמה --- אליה בן שלמה, --- אליהו בן סולומון --- אליהו בן סולומון, --- אליהו בן סלומון, --- אליהו בן שלומה, --- אליהו בן שלומו --- אליהו בן שלמה --- אליהו בן שלמה זלמן --- אליהו בן שלמה זלמן, --- אליהו בן שלמה, הגאון מווילנא, --- אליהו בן שלמה, --- אליהו בר שלמה --- אליהו חסידא מווילמא --- אליהו מווילנא --- אליהו מווילנא, --- אליהו מווילנה --- אליהו מוילנא --- אליהו מוילנה --- אליהוה בן שלמה, --- אליהו, --- אליוה, --- אלי׳ מווילנא, --- אלי׳, --- ברי״ף, שמואל, --- גאון מוילנה --- גאון, --- גרא, --- Influence. --- Vilnius (Lithuania) --- Wilno (Lithuania) --- Vilʹna (Lithuania) --- Vilʹnia (Lithuania) --- Вільня (Lithuania) --- Vilnius, Lithuanian S.S.R. --- Ṿilnah (Lithuania) --- Ṿilne (Lithuania) --- Vilʹno (Lithuania) --- Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė --- Vilnius City Municipality --- Vilna (Poland) --- authority. --- biography. --- disciples. --- divine. --- eastern europe. --- eliahu ben shlomo zalman. --- etkes. --- gain of vilna. --- jewish authors. --- jewish leaders. --- jewish life. --- jewish. --- jewry. --- judaica. --- judaism. --- kahal. --- medieval. --- nonfiction. --- rabbi scholar. --- rabbi. --- rabbinic studies. --- religion. --- religious belief. --- religious history. --- religious leaders. --- religious men. --- talmud. --- talmudic studies. --- torah. --- vilna.


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Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady : the origins of Chabad Hasidism
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ISBN: 1611686792 9781611686791 9781611686777 1611686776 1322336512 Year: 2015 Publisher: Waltham : Brandeis,

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"The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady"--

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Habad --- Hasidim --- Rabbis --- Jewish rabbis --- Clergy --- Jewish scholars --- Judaism --- Chasidim --- Hassidim --- Jews --- Chabad --- Lubavitch-Chabad --- Hasidism --- History. --- Functionaries --- Shneur Zalman, --- Admor ha-Zaḳen, --- Admūr, --- Admur hazoken, --- Alṭer Rebe, --- Baʻal ha-Tanya, --- Baruchowitz, Senior Salman, --- Chnéour Zalman, --- Ladier, Sheneʼur Zalman, --- Ladier, Solomon, --- Ladier, Zalman, --- Posner, Senior Salman, --- Rabenu, --- Schneur Zalman, --- Sheneʼur Zalman ben Barukh, --- Sheneʼur Zalman, --- Shiniyūr Zalmān, --- Shinʼūr Zalmān, --- Shneor Solomon ben Baruch, --- Shneor Zalman ben Baruch, --- Shneur-Zalman, --- Solomon Ladier, --- Zalman Ladier, --- Шнеур-Залман, --- אלטטער רבי --- אדמור, --- אדמו״ר, --- אדמו״ר הזקן --- אדמוה״ז --- רבנו הזקן --- רבינו הזקן --- שנאור זלמן, --- שנאיור זלמן --- שנאיור זלמן, --- שניאור זלמאן --- שניאור זלמן --- שניאור, זלמן --- שניאור זלמן, --- שניאור זלמן, מליאדי --- שניאור זלמן מליאדי --- שניאור זלמן, מלידי --- שניאור זלמן בן ברוך --- שניאור זלמן בן ברוך, --- שניאור זלמן, הרב מליאדי --- שניואר זלמן, --- שניו̀ר זלמן --- שניור זלמן בן ברוך, --- שו״ע הרב --- שינאור זלמן, --- לאדיער, שניאור זלמן --- בעל התניא --- בעל התניא והשו״ע --- כהן, יואל


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The Jewish eighteenth century : a European biography, 1700-1750
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ISBN: 0253049458 0253052580 0253049474 0253049466 9780253049476 9780253052582 9780253049452 9780253049469 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press,

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"The eighteenth century was the Jews' first modern century. The deep changes that took place during its course shaped the following generations, and its most prominent voices still reverberate today. In this first volume of his magisterial work, Shmuel Feiner charts the twisting and fascinating world of the first half of the 18th century from the viewpoint of the Jews of Europe. Paying careful attention to life stories, to bright and dark experiences, to voices of protest, to aspirations of reform, and to strivings for personal and general happiness, Feiner identifies the tectonic changes that were taking place in Europe and their unprecedented effects on and among Jews. From the religious and cultural revolution of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) to the question of whether Jews could be citizens of any nation, Feiner presents a board view of how this century of upheaval altered the map of Europe and the Jews who called it home"--


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La Rage de survivre
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ISBN: 2207246256 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris : Denoël,

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