Books Received: Jewish Studies
BOOKS RECEIVED: Catherine Chalier, “Reading the Torah: Beyond the Fundamentalist and Scientific Approaches” (Duquesne UP, 2017)
Catherine Chalier
Reading the Torah
Beyond the Fundamentalist and Scientific Approaches
Duquesne UP, 2017

Books ReceivedBooks Received: Biblical StudiesBooks Received: Critical TheoryBooks Received: Jewish StudiesBooks Received: Religion April 26, 2017

Fundamentalist readings of sacred texts of major world religions are often regarded as an ever-increasing threat to personal and democratic freedoms. Historical and critical readings, alternatively, purport to be objective and teach us to understand these texts by relating them… Read More
BOOKS RECEIVED: Michael A. Grodin, ed., “Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust,” (Berghahn, 2017)
Michael A. Grodin, ed.
Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

Berghahn Books, 2017

Books ReceivedBooks Received: European StudiesBooks Received: Genocide StudiesBooks Received: Global EthicsBooks Received: Jewish Studies February 15, 2017

Buy from University Press Books Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against… Read More
BOOKS RECEIVED: Elisabeth Goldwyn, “Reading Between the Lines: Form and Content in Levinas’s Talmudic Readings” (Duquesne UP, 2015)
Elisabeth Goldwyn
Reading Between the Lines
Form and Content in Levinas's Talmudic Readings
Duquesne UP, 2015

Books ReceivedBooks Received: Intellectual HistoryBooks Received: Jewish StudiesBooks Received: PhilosophyBooks Received: Religion September 28, 2016

Originally published in Hebrew, Reading between the Lines takes up philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s fascinating contributions to Jewish thought, concentrating specifically on his talmudic readings in the context of “contemporary midrash.” Herself a scholar and teacher of the Talmud, Elisabeth Goldwyn… Read More
BOOKS RECEIVED: Scham, Salem, and Pogrund, eds., “Shared Histories: A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue” (Left Coast Press, 2005)
Scham, Salem, and Pogrund, eds
Shared Histories
A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue
Left Coast Press, 2005

Books ReceivedBooks Received: Global EthicsBooks Received: Islamic StudiesBooks Received: Jewish StudiesBooks Received: Middle Eastern Studies May 15, 2016

There is no single history of the development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Israeli historical narrative speaks of Zionism as the Jewish national movement, of building a refuge from persecution, and of national regeneration. The Palestinian narrative speaks of invasion,… Read More
BOOKS RECEIVED: Stern, Markschies, and Shalev-Eyni, eds., “The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee (Penn State UP, 2015)
Stern, Markschies, and Shalev-Eyni, eds.
The Monk's Haggadah
A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim
Penn State UP, 2015

Books ReceivedBooks Received: ArtBooks Received: European StudiesBooks Received: Jewish StudiesBooks Received: Religion March 19, 2016

In 1489, a magnificent illustrated Passover Haggadah was sent as a bequest to the Monastery of Saint Quirinus at Tegernsee in southern Germany. Shortly afterwards, the monastery’s librarian sent the book to a Dominican friar named Erhard von Pappenheim, a… Read More
 
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