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9780253022240 | Indiana Univ Pr, September 19, 2016, cover price $55.00
Product Description: Biography: Neusner is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and an outspoken political figure. Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of Judaism from an insular project only conducted by—and of interest to—religious adherents to one which now flourishes in the secular setting of the university...read more
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9781479885855 | New York Univ Pr, September 13, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Biography: Neusner is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and an outspoken political figure.
Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States in 1940. This lively and readable book tells the comprehensive story of his life and work in America, his politics and personality, and how he came to influence not only Jewish debate but also wider religious and cultural debates in the postwar decades. A worthy sequel to his widely-praised biography of Heschel's early years, Edward Kaplan's new volume draws on previously unseen archives, FBI files, interviews with people who knew Heschel, and analyses of his extensive writings. Kaplan explores Heschel's shy and private side, his spiritual radicalism, and his vehement defence of the Hebrew prophets' ideal of absolute integrity and truth in ethical and political life. Of special interest are Heschel's interfaith activities, including a secret meeting with Pope Paul VI during Vatican II, his commitment to civil rights with Martin Luther King, Jr., his views on the state of Israel, and his opposition to the Vietnam War. A tireless challenger to spiritual and religious complacency, Heschel stands as a dramatically important witness.
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9780300115406 | Yale Univ Pr, September 28, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States in 1940.
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9780300151398 | Yale Univ Pr, March 17, 2009, cover price $33.00
Product Description: A rich, sweeping memoir by David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands proceeds from the premise that Yiddish culture is spread out among many different people and geographic areas and transmitted through story, song, study, and the family. Roskies leads readers through Yiddishlands old and new by revisiting his personal and professional experiences and retelling his remarkable family saga in a series of lively, irreverent, and interwoven stories...read more
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9780814333976 | Har/com edition (Wayne State Univ Pr, August 13, 2008), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A rich, sweeping memoir by David G.
Product Description: Nelson Glueck was born in 1900 to a struggling immigrant Jewish family in Cincinnati. By 1950, he had excavated remains of the civilization of the ancient Nabataeans in Transjordan, described a biblical copper-mining industry at the shore of the Red Sea, and shown how the Negev could support a large population if proper irrigation techniques were used...read more
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9780878201198 | Hebrew Union College Pr, March 15, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Nelson Glueck was born in 1900 to a struggling immigrant Jewish family in Cincinnati.
Product Description: This is a work about Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Edited with great care and devotion, it seeks to depict ''the Rav'' to the average, thoughtful layperson through the very human and personal perspectives of members of his family, as well as devoted disciples...read more
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9789657108505 | 1 edition (Urim Pubns, April 30, 2005), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This is a work about Rabbi Joseph B.
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9780823221158 | Fordham Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Samuel Dresner, a former student and lifelong friend of Heschel's, gives a personal insight into his life and views into the Hasidic movement and the important concept of halakha.
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9780823221165 | Fordham Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Samuel Dresner, a former student and lifelong friend of Heschel's, gives a personal insight into his life and views into the Hasidic movement and the important concept of halakha.
Product Description: Faith and struggle, pain and promiseAs a post-Holocaust Jewish thinker, Marc Ellis inhabits the land between homes that we call exile. In this intensely personal work he explores how the religious landscape looks from the perspective of an exile -- and how religious searching continually leads away from the domestic comforts of received Jewish and Christian platitudes and into new struggles for religious authenticity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780800634438 | Fortress Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Faith and struggle, pain and promiseAs a post-Holocaust Jewish thinker, Marc Ellis inhabits the land between homes that we call exile.
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9780881256123 | Ktav Pub Inc, June 1, 1998, cover price $29.50
Product Description: American Rabbi provides a comprehensive and insightful assessment of Rabbi Jacob Agus' standing as a notable Jewish thinker. The volume brings together original writings by a range of distinguished contributors to consider the main aspects of Agus' life and work in detail and to flesh out the broad and repercussive themes of his corpus...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780814746936 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: American Rabbi provides a comprehensive and insightful assessment of Rabbi Jacob Agus' standing as a notable Jewish thinker.
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9781555401467 | Scholars Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $24.95
Traces the life of the American religious scholar, examines the development of his political philosophy, and discusses the major themes of Herberg's writings
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9780807817247 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Traces the life of the American religious scholar, examines the development of his political philosophy, and discusses the major themes of Herberg's writings
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9780807859964 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $52.50
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9780899064802 | Mesorah Pubns Ltd, June 1, 1986, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Book by Finkelman, Shimon, Scherman, Nosson
Product Description: This book, the first full-scale biography of Israel Friedlander, sheds new light on the life and times of this scholar-turned activist. It follows him through the six major turning points of his brief life: his choice of Semetics as the focus of his scholaraly study, his joining the newly reorganized Jewish Theological Seminary, and his triumphs and disappointments in the academic and public arenas...read more
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9780873340274 | Jewish Theological Seminary of amer, February 1, 1985, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This book, the first full-scale biography of Israel Friedlander, sheds new light on the life and times of this scholar-turned activist.
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9780870686566 | Ktav Pub Inc, October 1, 1980, cover price $11.95
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