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This book is devoted to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's discussions on the practice of prayer. Prayer is analysed across a broad and complex spectrum in Soloveitchik's work, and his writings describing and analysing the experience of prayer afford a profound insight into its diversity, ranging from existential crisis to communion with God.

A collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century that includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities. Taken together, these short stories display the rich and complex cultural and intellectual reality of contemporary Russia.

This volume honours Rabbi Professor Nehemia Polen, one of those rare scholars whose religious teachings, spiritual writings, and academic scholarship have come together into a sustained project of interpretive imagination and engagement. These essays are a testament to his enduring impact on the scholarly community.

Captures the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the hardships of the USSR and repatriate to Israel in the late twentieth century. The narrative follows the lives of three family members, Aba, his wife Ida, and their son Misha, as they endure countless struggles throughout their journey to freedom.

Includes an analysis of the Jehoash Inscription Tablet, which describes renovations made to the First Temple and is considered the only written evidence of its existence. At the same time, a new technique for authenticating artifacts is described - especially important in determining the authenticity of artifacts collected from unprovenanced sites.

Writer, professor, translator, and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languages - her native Russian and her adopted French. She recounts the coexistence of these two languages, as well as two bodies and two worlds, in an autobiographical text packed with fascinating anecdotes.

Simon Reznikov, the Boston-based immigrant protagonist of Maxim D. Shrayer's A Russian Immigrant, is restless. Unresolved feelings about his Jewish (and American) present and his Russian (and Soviet) past prevent Reznikov from easily putting down roots in his new country.

Meyer Raskin is a wealthy Jewish entrepreneur running an agricultural estate in Belarus on the outskirts of the Russian Empire in the early 20th century. His life is interrupted by the Russian revolution of 1905 and later by World War I, which eventually turns his family into refugees. This is an autobiographical novel based on the author's family.

A collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century that includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities. The stories display a vast spectrum of subgenres, from grotesque absurdist to lyrical essays, from realistic narratives to fantastic parables.

Presents the first fully annotated and chronologically arranged collection of the Russian philosopher-poet's most important letters, the vast majority of which have never before been translated into English.

This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent ""Pop Sociologist"" and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s.

The first novel of Abdulhamid Sulaymon o'g'li Cho'lpon's unfinished dilogy of novels, Night and Day, gives readers a glimpse into the everyday struggles of men and women in Russian imperial Turkestan. More than just historical prose, Cho'lpon's magnum opus reads as poetic elegy and turns on dramatic irony.

In this Ukrainian bestseller, now available in English for the first time, Yaroslav Hrytsak examines the first three decades (1856-86) in the life of Ivan Franko, a prominent writer, scholar, journalist, and political activist who became an indisputable leader in the forging of modern Ukrainian national identity.

This collection of articles constitutes a major contribution to the growing field of Latin American Jewish studies, offering different perspectives on the rich and complex phenomena in the social, political, and cultural development of Jewish communities in the area.

During World War II some 40,000 Jews found themselves under Japanese occupation. Virtually all of them survived. This book traces the evolution of Japan's policy towards the Jews from the beginning of the 20th century, the existence of anti-Semitism in Japan, and why Japan ignored Nazi demands to become involved in the "final solution".

Provides a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. This book includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. It considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology, and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky's thought and art.

Employing text critical methods, Jonathan S. Milgram argues that, in the absence of the hermeneutic underpinnings for tannaitic innovations, the inheritance laws of the tannaim were not the result of the rabbinic penchant for inventive interpretation of Scripture.

Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled by the regime of Nicholas I.

All twenty-two articles in this volume are based on lectures given at the conference ""The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage"". Geographically, the articles range from Italy to the Ottoman Empire, from France and Germany to the Middle East, including Israel, North and East Africa.

Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned, tortured, and exiled by the regime of Nicholas I.

Twenty-five years ago this year, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus. Since then, he has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure. This collection celebrates Stavans's work with essays that describe the good and the bad, the inspired and the pedestrian, the worthwhile and the questionable.

Critically examines the image of Jews from the contemporary perspective of ordinary Chinese citizens. This volume includes chapters on Chinese Jewish Studies programs, popular Chinese books and blogs about Jews, China's relations with Israel, and innovative examinations of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng.

Examines how contemporary issues such as workers' rights, animal welfare, and environmental protection intersect with basic Jewish food ethics, and explores how Jewish communities both respect ancient laws and appreciate the importance of progress.

Tells the extraordinary story of the author's twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father's family buried in their backyard just prior to being deported into concentration camps. The book details the author's quest to unearth his family's past and his father's treasure and continues with his parent's amazing post-war years in Europe.

This memoir begins with the the author's childhood during the Holocaust in Hungary. It captures life after the war's end in Communist-ruled Hungary and continues with her and her husband's flight to Germany and eventually the US. Zsuzsanna Ozsvath's story of survival, friendship, and love provides readers with a glimpse of an extraordinary journey.

Examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice.

Examines how contemporary issues such as workers' rights, animal welfare, and environmental protection intersect with basic Jewish food ethics, and explores how Jewish communities both respect ancient laws and appreciate the importance of progress.

In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar Keret, Yoram Kaniuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg and Ka-Tzetnik.

Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition is the driving force of ""art"" production not only in animals, but also in humans. This book reveals that Darwin's hypothesis, rather than amounting to a full-blown antidote to the humanist tradition, is actually informed by classical rhetoric and by English and German philosophical aesthetics.

Tens of thousands of Jewish children were orphaned during World War I and in the subsequent years of conflict. In response, Jewish leaders in Poland established CENTOS, the Central Union of Associations for Jewish Orphan Care. The work of CENTOS exemplifies the community's goal to build a Jewish future.