Klal Yisrael

Klal Yisrael
Author: Ann Ricki Hurwitz
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874415117

Prepare your students to become active participants in the Jewish community with this hands-on introduction to the widely scattered communities of the Jewish world.

Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism

Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism
Author: Judit Bokser Liwerant
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2008-05-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9047428056

This volume addresses key conceptual issues and case studies dealing with contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu. The book brings together a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches that range from political science to sociology and from art and literature to demography in order to offer the reader a multidimensional and multifocal analysis of the diverse constitutional elements of the Jewish experience. Using as its point of departure the wide horizon of historical trajectories and current challenges, the articles analyze the transnational, regional and local processes that inform the different Jewish Diasporas and Israel. Simultaneously, its content provides a snapshot of the current state of research on collective identity building processes and a lively analysis of the challenges posed by cultural diversity and primordial and civic belongings in the framework of political transitions, as well as new and old forms of expressing through cultural creativity individual and collective identities.

Basic Judaism for Young People: Israel

Basic Judaism for Young People: Israel
Author: Naomi E. Pasachoff
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1986
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780874414233

Through enjoyable stories from the Torah, this book helps young people learn about Jewish tradition and what it means to be Jewish.

Contemporary Jewries

Contemporary Jewries
Author: Eliezer Ben Rafael
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004129504

This work aims to explore whether one can still speak, at the beginning of the 21st century, of one Jewish People encompassing all Jews in the world and based on shared principles of collective identity. It covers factors of convergence and divergence that characterize contemporary Jewries.

Zionism

Zionism
Author: Nathan Rotenstreich
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0791479757

In Zionism, the late Nathan Rotenstreich traces the dialectical connections between Zionism's past and present based on his contention that the Jewish nation comprises both the State of Israel and the Diaspora. He also addresses relations between both Israel and the Diaspora, on the one hand, and Israel and the Arab world, on the other. Written a short time before Rotenstreich's death, Zionism can be regarded as his spiritual and ideological legacy.

Converging Alternatives

Converging Alternatives
Author: Yosef Gorny
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791482200

Converging Alternatives provides the first comparative study of the national ideology of two rival Jewish socialist movements: the Bund party and the Zionist Labor movement in Eretz-Israel (Palestine). Yosef Gorny traces the concept of the Jewish nation from the foundation of the Bund and the first Zionist Congress in 1897 until the remains of the Bund decided to join the Jewish local and world institutions in 1985. The following events from those years are covered: the Soviet Revolution, the Balfour declaration, the founding of the Polish Republic, the British Mandate on Palestine, the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, the Jewish-Arab conflict, the Holocaust, and the gradual disappearance of the two movements from the historical stage. This innovative approach to the Bund and Zionist movements helps explain the connection between nationalism and multiculturalism in the Jewish modern tradition.

The Language of Judaism

The Language of Judaism
Author: Simon Glustrom
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2000-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1461631548

Jews have long employed a rich, intricate, image-filled Hebrew vocabulary to express both their deepest beliefs and the specific details of their daily religious lives. The Language of Judaism is a lively and unique exposition of that vocabulary's most central terms and concepts. Responding to the news of today's non-Hebrew speakers, Rabbi Glustrom provides the terms in Hebrew, notes their English transliterations, and supplies the closest translations available. He then discusses the deeper meaning and significance of the terms, examining how they relate to various aspects of Jewish life. The Language of Judaism is exciting and unique for a variety of reasons. Certain it reveals the meaning of many terms and concepts that are vital to an understanding of Judaism. But more important, Rabbi Glustrom's vast knowledge of the material allows him to present each term in the precise context required to allow even beginners to understand it fully. Concepts from Mitzvah to Midrash, Teshuvah to Tanakh, Kol Nidre to Kibbutz come alive as Rabbi Glustrom explains their origins, histories, and derivations. The Language of Judaism is, on one level, a dictionary of terms. On another level, it is a complete exposition of the context and significance of those terms. But, when read at its highest level, The Language of Judaism is an examination and discussion of Jewish life itself.

רינת חיים

רינת חיים
Author: Ḥayim ben Mosheh Fridlander
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2004
Genre: High Holidays
ISBN: 9781583307151

The mashgiach of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, left behind a precious legacy of writings and teachings, published in Hebrew as Sifsei Chaim. Now, for the first time in translation, the Mashgiach's collected shiurim on the Yomim Noraim Shmoneh Esrei, are available to English-speaking readers. Gain a deeper understanding of tefillah, shofar, the ultimate Redemption and HaShem's Divine plan - as seen through the exalted words, themes, and messages of these awesome days. Simple yet profound, uplifting and majestic, every page of this book is filled with stimulating insights that will help you unleash the power of prayer during the Yamim Noraim. Contains the entire Hebrew text of Rinas Chaim, newly typeset and fully vowelized.

Handbook of Israel: Major Debates

Handbook of Israel: Major Debates
Author: Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1318
Release: 2016-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110351633

The Handbook of Israel: Major Debates serves as an academic compendium for people interested in major discussions and controversies over Israel. It provides innovative, updated and informative knowledge on a range of acute debates. Among other topics, the handbook discusses post-Zionism, militarism, democracy and religion, (in)equality, colonialism, today’s criticism of Israel, Israel-Diaspora relations, and peace programs. Outstanding scholars face each other with unadulterated, divergent analyses. These historical, political and sociological texts from Israel and elsewhere make up a major reference book within academia and outside academia. About seventy contributions grouped in thirteen thematic sections present controversial and provocative approaches refl ecting, from different angles, on the present-day challenges of the State of Israel. Other Major Works by the Editors: Eliezer Ben-Rafael Is Israel One? Religion, Nationalism and Ethnicity Confounded, Brill (2005) Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel, Cambridge University Press (paperback) (2007) Julius H. Schoeps Begegnungen. Menschen, die meinen Lebensweg kreuzten. Suhrkamp (2016) Pioneers of Zionism: Hess, Pinsker, Rülf. Messianism, Settlement Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinan Conflict. De Gruyter (2013) Yitshak Sternberg World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Relational Dialectic. Brill (2010). Transnationalism. Brill (2009) Olaf Glöckner Being Jewish in 21st Century Germany. De Gruyter (2015, with Haim Fireberg) Deutschland, die Juden und der Staat Israel. Olms (2016, with Julius H. Schoeps)

Shemoneh Esrei

Shemoneh Esrei
Author: Zev Leff
Publisher: Targum Press
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2008
Genre: Amidah (Jewish prayer)
ISBN: 1568714718