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British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - now Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London - launched his tenure of office in 1991 with the aim of an inclusivist Decade of Jewish Renewal. Within a few years, fulfilling his installation prediction that 'I will have failures, but I will try again, another way, another time, ' he was attracting calls, from opponents and supporters, for his resignation and the abolition of his office. Reviewing Sacks' ...

Concealed for two centuries and known only to a select individual in each generation, the "Scroll of Secrets" is the hidden Messianic vision of R. Nachman of Bratslav. Despite being written in an encoded language, with acronyms and abbreviations, after a clarification and cautious reconstruction of what can be decoded, the reader is presented with an exalted Messianic vision. The book marks a turning point in our knowledge of R. Nachman's spir...

British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - now Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London - launched his tenure of office in 1991 with the aim of an inclusivist Decade of Jewish Renewal. Within a few years, fulfilling his installation prediction that 'I will have failures, but I will try again, another way, another time, ' he was attracting calls, from opponents and supporters, for his resignation and the abolition of his office. Reviewing Sacks' ...

THREE JEWISH JOURNEYS presents seventeen essays collected from this leading Israeli anthropologist's varied ethnographic work. It draws from, in particular, three published studies of physical and cultural dislocation. The first examined the immigration of Jewish craftsmen and peddlers from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to a farming community in the Negev, highlighting the challenge to their family structures and traditional charismatic reli...

Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral philosopher who explored and challenged the fundamental bases of human society-political, economic, legal, and cultural. Hugh McLean has been studying and writing about Tolstoy for many years. In these essays he investigates s...

Focusing on the concept of time and life cycle, this collection examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period through the lens of Jewish laws and customs. The papers come together to present the cultural perspective of the Sages and scholars who produced the first stepping stones of Jewish life and customs. By using a structural approach, Rubin is able to identify processes of long term change in a society which remains largely traditional and s...

In the new second volume of "Brodsky Through They eyes of His Contemporaries, " the collection of interviews features eye-witness accounts of Joseph Brodsky's friends and family members, publishers, editors, translators, students, and fellow poets including John Le Carre, Oleg Tselkov, Petr Vail, Bengt Jangfeldt, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and others. This collection of 40 interviews illuminates an intriguing contemporary p...

Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries" (Volume 1) offers a fascinating record of conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky: Czeslaw Milosz, Roy Fisher, Lev Loseff, Bella Akhmadulina, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Tomas Venclova, Viktor Krivulin, Alexander Kushner, and Elena Shvarts. In comparison with the first edition of this volume published in 1992 this new revised second edition is enlarged with three new int...

Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890- 1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative process and the significance of artistic/ literary creativity in his own life, as well as in human life altogether, are presented here in his own words (in translation) and are discussed in the extensive Commentaries and Introduction. Although universally acknowledged as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Paste...

Judaism in a Post-Halakhic Age" tackles the following questions: 1. What is Halakhah and what role has it played in the creative survival of the Jewish people for two millennia? 2. Why is Halakhah no longer capable of functioning as it has until now? 3. What sort of polity and religious culture can be recommended to replace the Halakhic tradition in an era of freedom, democracy, scientific research and religious pluralism? The author, however,...

This study is the first in any language of Ivan Konevskoi - poet, thinker, mystic - for many decades the "lost genius" of Russian modernism. A fresh and compelling figure, Konevskoi plunged deeply into currents of modern mystical thought and art in the 1890s. A passionate searcher for immortality, he developed his own version of pantheism meant to guard his unique persona from dissolution in the All-One. The poetry of Tiutchev, Vladimir Solov'...

Understanding and nurturing Jewish Peoplehood is an enterprise that seeks to generate involvement and communication between Jews the world-over - a principle which is the basis of this book. Authors include Jews from different corners of the planet, each of whom brings a unique perspective to the larger project of building Jewish Peoplehood. While each chapter of this book offers a distinctive looking glass into Jewish Peoplehood, they a...

Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" is one of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century. This book seeks to guide readers through the intricacies of Nabokov's work and to help them achieve a better understanding of his rich artistic design. Chapters include an analysis of the novel, a discussion of its precursors in Nabokov's work and in world literature, an essay on the character of Dolly Haze (Humbert's "Lolita"), and a ...

Vladimir Nabokov's 'Lolita' is one of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century. This book seeks to guide readers through the intricacies of Nabokov's work and to help them achieve a better understanding of his rich artistic design. Chapters include an analysis of the novel, a discussion of its precursors in Nabokov's work and in world literature, an essay on the character of Dolly Haze (Humbert's "Lolita"), ...

Every reading community has ways of confronting moments of embarrassment in its reading of scriptures. Scripture may be the holy books of religious communities or the foundational texts of civilizations. Contemporary readers of Aristotle who see his writing as foundational for Western philosophy, for example, must confront his views on slavery. This kind of confrontation, whether with religious, philosophical or canonical books of other...

The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable renaissance in the academic study of the history of the Jews in Great Britain and of their impact upon British history. The essays presented in this volume reflect and offer some of the finest fruits of that regeneration, which could scarcely have been imagined a generation ago.

Friendship and hatred, tolerance and persecution, intimacy and estrangement, dialogue and debate, routine interaction and explosive crisis-all these mark the complex and fascinating relationship between Christians and Jews over a period of two millennia. This volume addresses that relationship in all its intriguing variety ranging from Jewish views of Jesus to medieval persecutions of Jews to the impact of the State of Israel to the controvers...