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Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

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ISBN-10: 0199280320

ISBN-13: 9780199280322

Edition: 2005

Authors: Martin Goodman, Jeremy Cohen, David Sorkin

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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies is part of a major new series of Oxford Handbooks. The volume on Jewish Studies reflects the aim of the series to produce distinctive and original surveys of today's interests and directions in the Humanities and Social Sciences.The Handbook covers all the main areas currently taught and researched as part of Jewish Studies in universities in Europe, the United States, and Israel. The span of the volume chronologically and geographically is thus enormous, but all contributors have in common their expertise in the study of the history, literature, religion, and culture of the Jews.Jewish Studies is a comparatively young discipline which has grown over…    
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Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1052
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.45" long x 2.06" tall
Weight: 3.542

Martin Goodman is the author of "In Search of the Divine Mother" & "On Bended Knees", which was short listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award, as well as numerous stories, magazine articles, & plays. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, & the French Pyrenees.

David Sorkin is the Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include "The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought" and "Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment".

The Nature of Jewish Studies
1a. Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies
2a. Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period
2b. Jewish Literature in the Second Temple Period
3a. Jews and Judaism in the Talmudic Period
3b. Classical Rabbinic Literature
Medieval Jewry in Christendom
Medieval Jewry in the World of Islam
Rabbinic Scholarship in the Middle Ages
Medieval Judaism
Medieval Jewish Literature
Medieval Karaism
Oriental and Sephardic Jewry since 1492
European Jewry in the Early Modern Period, 1492 to 1750
Western and Central European Jewry in the Modern Period, 1750-1933
Eastern European Jewry in the Modern Period, 1750-1939
The Holocaust and its Aftermath
Settlement and State in the Land of Israel
Jews and Judaism in America
1a. Hebrew Language
1b. Modern Hebrew Literature
Yiddish Studies
Ladino Studies
Judaeo-Arabic and judaeo-Persian Studies
Other Diaspora Jewish Literatures since 1492
Halakha and Law
Bible Interpretation
Mysticism and Magic
Liturgy
Jewish Philosophy and Theology
Jewish Women's Studies
Demography
Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
Music
Theatre
Film
Antisemitism
Folklore and Ethnography
Modern Jewish Society and Sociology