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Radiance
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ISBN: 0827615027 0827618425 0827618409 9780827618428 9780827618404 9780827618411 0827618417 9780827615021 Year: 2020 Publisher: Philadelphia [Lincoln, NE]

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"This first anthology of the most important writings by Danny Siegel, spanning and modernizing fifty years of his insights, Radiance intersperses soulful Jewish texts with innovative Mitzvah ideas to rouse individuals and communities to transform our lives, communities, and world"--


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Symboliek van de joodse religie
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ISBN: 9062914942 9789062914944 Year: 1990 Publisher: 's-Gravenhage : BZZTôH,

Concerto pour quatre consonnes sans voyelles: au-delà du principe d'identité
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ISBN: 2715808437 9782715808430 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris: Balland,

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Reading texts on Jews and Judaism in the Low Countries
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ISBN: 9789042926677 9042926678 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leuven : Peeters,


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The enchantments of Judaism : rites of transformation from birth through death
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ISBN: 1555405894 Year: 1991 Publisher: Atlanta Scholars Press


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The impact of culture and cultures upon Jewish customs and rituals
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ISBN: 1618114921 9781618114921 9781618114914 1618114913 Year: 2016 Publisher: Boston

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This book discusses the development of practices associated with customs and artifacts used in Jewish ceremonies when viewed from the vantage of anthropological studies. It can also function as a guide to practical halakhah. The author examines topics such as Torah Scrolls, ceremonial use of fire, Purim customs, the festival of Shavuot, magic and superstition. This investigation, at times, compares some Jewish observances with the wider cultural observances or notions of the broader, gentile societies in which Jews were located when these customs originated. It is found that the time and location of a practice’s origin is often critical to appreciating a shared context. In all cases the Jewish practice becomes reinterpreted within a specifically Jewish narrative and legal structure.


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That pride of race and character
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ISBN: 1479859540 9781479859542 9781479854530 1479854530 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York

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“Ithas ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,”declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. “Their reasons arepartly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race andcharacter which has supported them through so many ages of trial andvicissitude.” In That Pride of Race andCharacter, Caroline E. Light examines the American Jewish tradition ofbenevolence and charity and explores its southern roots.Light provides a critical analysis ofbenevolence as it was inflected by regional ideals of race and gender, showinghow a southern Jewish benevolent empire emerged in response to the combinedpressures of post-Civil War devastation and the simultaneous influx of easternEuropean immigration. In an effort to combat the voices of anti-Semitism andnativism, established Jewish leaders developed a sophisticated and cutting-edgenetwork of charities in the South to ensure that Jews took care of thoseconsidered “their own” while also proving themselves to be exemplary whitecitizens. Drawing from confidential case files and institutional records fromvarious southern Jewish charities, the book relates how southern Jewish leadersand their immigrant clients negotiated the complexities of “fitting in” in aplace and time of significant socio-political turbulence. Ultimately, thesouthern Jewish call to benevolence bore the particular imprint of the region’sracial mores and left behind a rich legacy.

Focusing on Jewish popular culture in Poland and its afterlife
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ISBN: 1874774730 1874774749 1800340737 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Éthique juive et modernité
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ISSN: 0755169X ISBN: 2226099859 9782226099853 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris : Albin Michel,


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Synagogue life : a study in symbolic interaction
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ISBN: 0226324885 Year: 1976 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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