Sabbatai Zevi

Sabbatai Zevi
Author: David J. Halperin
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789624843

Sabbatai Zevi stirred up the Jewish world in the mid-seventeenth century by claiming to be the messiah, then stunned it by suddenly converting to Islam. The story is presented here for the first time through contemporary documents, written by Sabbatai’s followers and by one of his detractors, in translations that brilliantly capture the vividness of this landmark episode in early modern Jewish history.

Sabbatai Zevi [microform]

Sabbatai Zevi [microform]
Author: Sholem 1880-1957 Asch
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2021-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781015120914

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Sabbatai Zevi [microform]

Sabbatai Zevi [microform]
Author: Sholem 1880-1957 Asch
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014286628

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Faith Reason Skepticism

Faith Reason Skepticism
Author: Marcus Hester
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2009-02-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1439901295

Original essays provide a dialogue between four of the most distinguished scholars now working on problems of faith, reason, and skepticism.

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin
Author: Rebecca Rovit
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1609381246

"Revealing the complex interplay between history and human lives under conditions of duress, Rebecca Rovit focuses on the eight-year odyssey of Berlin's Jewish Kulturbund Theatre. By examining why and how an all-Jewish repertory theatre could coexist with the Nazi regime. Rovit raises broader questions about the nature of art in an environment of coercion and isolation, artistic integrity and adaptability, and community and identity."--BACK COVER.

The Third Force in Seventeenth Century Thought

The Third Force in Seventeenth Century Thought
Author: Richard Henry Popkin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1992
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789004093249

This volume contains more than twenty essays in the history of modern philosophy and history of religion by R.H. Popkin. Several of the essays have not been published before. Thinkers discussed include Hobbes, Henry More, Pascal, Spinoza, Cudworth, Newton, Hume, Condorcet, and Moritz Schlick.

Book Reports

Book Reports
Author: Robert Christgau
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1478002123

In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic—his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and 1984 as well as pornography and science fiction, and analyzes at length the cultural theory of Raymond Williams, the detective novels of Walter Mosley, the history of bohemia, and the 2008 financial crisis. It establishes Christgau as not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, but one of America's most insightful cultural critics as well.