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Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE

By: Ben Zion Rosenfeld,Haim Perlmutter

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Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE

By: Ben Zion Rosenfeld,Haim Perlmutter

This book analyzes Jewish society in Roman Palestine in the time of the Mishnah (70–250 CE) in a systematic way, carefully delineating the various economic groups living therein, from the destitute, to the poor, to the middling, to the rich, and to the superrich. It gleans the various socioeconomic strata from the terminology employed by contemporary literary sources via contextual, philological, and historical-critical analysis. It also takes a multidisciplinary approach to analyze and interpret relevant archeological and inscriptional evidence as well as numerous legal sources. The research presented herein shows that various expressions in the sources have latent meanings that indicate socioeconomic status. “Rich,” for example, does not necessarily refer to the elite, and “poor” does not necessarily refer to the destitute. Jewish society consisted of groups on a continuum from extremely poor to extremely rich, and the various middling groups played a more important role in the economy than has hitherto been thought.

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9004418938

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The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900

A Social History of East European Agunah

By: Dr Haim Sperber

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The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900

A Social History of East European Agunah

By: Dr Haim Sperber

Agunot (Agunah, sing., meaning anchored in Hebrew) is a Jewish term describing women who cannot remarry because their husband has disappeared. According to Jewish law (Halacha) a woman can get out of the marriage only if the husband releases her by granting a divorce writ (Get), if he dies, or if his whereabouts is not known. Women whose husbands cannot be located, and who have not been granted a Get, are considered Agunot. The Agunah phenomenon was of major concern in East European Jewry and much referred to in Hebrew and Yiddish media and fiction. Most nineteenth-century Agunot cases came from Eastern Europe, where most Jews resided (twentieth-century Agunot were primarily in North America, and will be the subject of a forthcoming book). Seven variations of Agunot have been identified: Deserted wives; women who refused to receive, or were not granted, a Get; widowed women whose brothers-in-law refused to grant them permission to marry someone else (Halitza); women whose husbands remains were not found; improperly or incorrectly written Gets; women whose husbands became mentally ill and were not competent to grant a Get; women refused a Get by husbands who had converted to Christianity or Islam. The book explores the reasons for desertion and the plight of the left-alone wife. Key is the change from a legal issue to a social one, with changing attitudes to philanthropy and public opinion at the fore of explanation. A statistical database of circa 5000 identified Agunot is to be published simultaneously in a separate companion volume (978-1-78976-167-2).

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Liverpool University Press

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1802071679

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9781802071672

The Large Group Re-visited

The Herd, Primal Horde, Crowds and Masses

By: Stanley Schneider,Haim Weinberg

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The Large Group Re-visited

The Herd, Primal Horde, Crowds and Masses

By: Stanley Schneider,Haim Weinberg

This important and thought-provoking book explores the workings and dynamics of the large group, with clear descriptions of both theory and technique. Engaging with a broad set of contexts, this book will be of practical use to all those who seek fuller understanding of the social and psychological processes underlying group dynamics.

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250

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843100991

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9781843100997

Suicide Social Dramas

Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere

By: Haim Hazan,Raquel Romberg

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Suicide Social Dramas

Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere

By: Haim Hazan,Raquel Romberg

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimean account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility. An analysis of the social dramas, cultural performances, and suicide talk aired in the Israeli public sphere, it suggests that such public glossing practices atone for and bring about the symbolic rectification of the socially detrimental effects of suicide. Drawing on Durkheim’s thought on the social significance of suicide and the sacred cohesive power of society’s self-representations through rituals and commemorations, the authors revamp the contemporary pertinence of these cultural devices, showing how, in the process of reconstituting and redressing the disrupted order, suicide talk constitutes a revival mechanism of communal ‘life giving’. A rekindling of the Durkheimian approach to suicide that examines how society deals with suicide’s shattering of normative we-feelings, Suicide Social Dramas: Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and anthropology with interests in social theory, Israel studies, suicide studies, and the interpretation of societal and cultural processes.

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Routledge

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1000411591

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Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety

A Guide for Caregivers

By: Eli R. Lebowitz,Haim Omer

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Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety

A Guide for Caregivers

By: Eli R. Lebowitz,Haim Omer

Lebowitz and Omer have taken the latest and most relevant scientific research and synthesized it into an essential read for caregivers of anxious children. Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety: A Guide for Caregivers provides an 'inside look' at the nuts and bolts of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for childhood anxiety the treatment of choice among leading researchers and experts. The book is filled with analogies, examples, and practical advice that professionals and parents will refer back to over and over again." Candice A. Alfano, PhD; Director, Sleep and Anxiety Center for Kids (SACK) Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Houston PRACTICAL REAL-LIFE SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN LIVING WITH ANXIETY FOCUSING ON THE SPECIAL ROLE OF THE CAREGIVER IN ACHIEVING SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT Focusing on the treatment of childhood anxiety, both in one-on-one therapist to child treatment and within the family, Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety: A Guide for Caregivers adopts an integrated approach presenting novel strategies to help mental health professionals and families create change and momentum in otherwise stagnant situations. This empowering guide offers practical, evidence-based, and theory-driven strategies for helping children to overcome anxiety, even if they resist treatment. Uniquely providing concrete advice for both the therapeutic and home environment, this insightful book covers: What to do when anxiety takes over the family School phobia and school refusal Working with highly dependent young adults Parental support and protection Creating and maintaining family boundaries A walk-through of The Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) Program Cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and emotion-based tools for treating anxiety Medication for childhood anxiety

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118238028

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Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE

By: Ben Zion Rosenfeld,Haim Perlmutter

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By: Ben Zion Rosenfeld,Haim Perlmutter

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Tools for Tosafos

By: Haim Perlmutter

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Tools for Tosafos

By: Haim Perlmutter

The perfect aid for everyone engaged in Gemara study: the beginner, the student, and the experienced scholar wishing to upgrade his skills. Guides the reader through the study of Tosafos, providing definitions, clarifications, a dictionary of common words, and a glossary and cross-reference for key concepts.

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Feldheim Publishers

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1568710933

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Feathers

By: Haim Be'er

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Feathers

By: Haim Be'er

When first published in 1979, Haim Be'er's Feathers was a critical and commercial success, ushering in a period of great productivity and expansiveness in modern Hebrew literature. Now considered a classic in Israeli fiction the book is finally available to English readers worldwide. In this, his first novel, Be'er portrays the world of a deeply religious community in Jerusalem during the author's childhood and adolescence in the 1950s and 60s. The novel is filled with vivid portraits of eccentric Jerusalem characters, chief among them the book's main character, Mordecai Leder, who dreams of founding a utopian colony based on the theories of the nineteenth-century Viennese Jewish thinker Karl Popper-Lynkeus. Similar high-flying dreams inspire the family of the narrator, strict Orthodox Jews with impractical minds and adventurous souls--men such as the narrator's father, who periodically disappears from home on botanical expeditions meant to prove that the willow tree of Scripture is in fact the Australian eucalyptus. Experimental in structure and mood, Feathers features kaleidoscopic jumps in time, back and forth in the narrator's memories from boyhood to adulthood. Its moods swing wildly from hilarity to the macabre, from familial warmth to the loneliness of adolescence. Jerusalem and its inhabitants, as well as the emotional life of the narrator, are splintered and reconstituted, shattered and patched. This fragmentation, combined with a preoccupation with death and physical dissolution and dreamlike flights of imagination, evokes an Israeli magical realism. Feathers was chosen one of the 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature by the National Yiddish Book Center.

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UPNE

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1611684838

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Feathers

By: Haim Be'er

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Feathers

By: Haim Be'er

A classic of modern Israeli literature in English for the first time.

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1584655356

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The Pure Element of Time

By: Haim Be_er

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The Pure Element of Time

By: Haim Be_er

A rich autobiographical novel of the sentimental education of one of modern Israel's foremost literary talents.

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1584652772

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The Pure Element of Time

By: Haim Be'er

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The Pure Element of Time

By: Haim Be'er

Published in 1998 as Havalim, The Pure Element of Time is a rich and evocative autobiographical novel about a writer's development. With his keen eye and opulent writing style, Haim Be'er turns the story of his childhood and maturity into a complex and gripping work of art. Constructed as a triptych, The Pure Element of Time begins with the author's boyhood. Raised in an orthodox family in an old Jerusalem neighborhood in the early 1950s, Be'er was profoundly influenced by his overly pious grandmother, who was, nonetheless, a natural storyteller whose richly evocative parables and tales inspired his lifelong love for language. The middle section depicts his parents' marriage, a tragic misalliance between a smart, independent Jerusalem-born woman and a withdrawn and defeated refugee from the Russian pogroms. The emergence of the writer's individual literary voice--informed by, yet ultimately transcending, the influences of tradition and history--forms the emotional and psychological core of Be'er's work.

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1611684323

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The Pure Element of Time

By: Haim Be’er

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The Pure Element of Time

By: Haim Be’er

A rich autobiographical novel of the sentimental education of one of modern Israel's foremost literary talents

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Brandeis University Press

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1611684315

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The Sabbatean

By: Haim Erroll Gelardin

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The Sabbatean

By: Haim Erroll Gelardin

Meeting by chance on a park bench, writer Baki happens upon the story of his career. Sitting next to him is a homeless person named Selim, a once rich and respected man. What happened? That's what Baki is going to find out. As Baki forms a friendship with Selim, he learns Selim's story of religious persecution and discovers how he became who he is today... Selim is a Sabbatean. The Sabbatean is a story about an unlikely friendship between two strangers. Haim Erroll Gelardin was born in Izmir, Turkey and now resides in Tel Aviv, Israel. Haim is retired and spends his time writing.

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Eloquent Books

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1609111737

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Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE

Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE

The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900

The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900

The Large Group Re-visited

The Large Group Re-visited

Suicide Social Dramas

Suicide Social Dramas

Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety

Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety

Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE

Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE

Tools for Tosafos

Tools for Tosafos

Feathers

Feathers

Feathers

Feathers

The Pure Element of Time

The Pure Element of Time

The Pure Element of Time

The Pure Element of Time

The Pure Element of Time

The Pure Element of Time

The Sabbatean

The Sabbatean

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