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We Who Lived

Two Teenagers in World War II Poland

By: Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi

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We Who Lived

Two Teenagers in World War II Poland

By: Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi

Hava (Eva) Bromberg and Ephraim Sokal were Jewish teenagers in Poland when the Nazis invaded in 1939. Hiding in plain sight, Bromberg lived among the non-Jewish Polish population, always in danger of discovery or betrayal. Sokal and his family were deported as "enemies of the people" when the Russians occupied eastern Poland--a calamity that saved their lives. Liberated by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Sokal fought the Germans, serving with the Polish Navy and British armed forces. Bromberg and Sokal met in 1947, both facing the challenges of surviving in a postwar world they were unprepared for. This combined memoir tells their story of resilience.

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McFarland

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1476631190

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9781476631196

Between Worlds

The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon

By: Hava Tirosh-Rothschild

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Between Worlds

The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon

By: Hava Tirosh-Rothschild

It is a work of sound scholarship dealing with an interesting historical figure and his unique cultural world. The author focuses correctly on the transition from Italian to Ottoman Jewish culture in the life of David Messer Leon and reveals much about the continuities and discontinuities between both societies. He nicely fuses social and intellectual history, and uses a life to illuminate a number of interesting and important cultural trends among early modern Jews, particularly the integration of kabbalah and philosophy, Humanism and Thomism. The presentation of the symbiotic nature of Jewish culture with contemporary intellectual trends and the appropriation of Christian theological strategies by a Jewish thinker to explain Judaism make this study a fascinating one.

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397

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State University of New York Press

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1438422229

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9781438422220

Happiness in Premodern Judaism

Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being

By: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

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Happiness in Premodern Judaism

Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being

By: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of happiness was a central concern of Jewish thinkers. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century. These claims make sense if one understands happiness as human flourishing on the basis of Aristotle's thought in the Nichomachean Ethics. Linking virtue, knowledge, and well-being, Aristotle's analysis of happiness can be traced in Jewish understanding of human flourishing as early as the Greco-Roman world, but the fusion of Greek and Judaic perspectives on happiness reached its zenith in in the Middle Ages in the thought of Moses Maimonides and his followers. Even the controversies about Maimonides' ideas could be viewed as discussions about the meaning of happiness and the way to attain it within Judaism. Much of this book, then, concerns the reception of Aristotle's Ethics in medieval Jewish philosophy. This book shows how a certain notion of happiness reflects the intellectual culture of a given period, including cultural exchanges among Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Demonstrating the discourse on happiness as a dramatic interplay between Wisdom and Torah, between philosophy and religion, between reason and faith, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson presents, to specialists and non-specialists alike, a fascinating tour of Jewish intellectual history.

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609

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Hebrew Union College Press

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087820105X

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9780878201051

Eva's Journey

A Young Girl's True Story

By: Hava Zvi,Hava Ben-Zvi

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A Young Girl's True Story

By: Hava Zvi,Hava Ben-Zvi

Memior of growing up in Poland during the Holocaust years.

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124

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iUniverse

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0595307507

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9780595307500

Intertwined Worlds

Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism

By: Hava Lazarus-Yafeh

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Intertwined Worlds

Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism

By: Hava Lazarus-Yafeh

Exploring the lively polemics among Jews, Christians, and Muslims during the Middle Ages, Hava Lazarus-Yafeh analyzes Muslim critical attitudes toward the Bible, some of which share common features with both pre-Islamic and early modern European Bible criticism. Unlike Jews and Christians, Muslims did not accept the text of the Bible as divine word, believing that it had been tampered with or falsified. This belief, she maintains, led to a critical approach to the Bible, which scrutinized its text as well as its ways of transmission. In their approach Muslim authors drew on pre-Islamic pagan, Gnostic, and other sectarian writings as well as on Rabbinic and Christian sources. Elements of this criticism may have later influenced Western thinkers and helped shape early modern Bible scholarship. Nevertheless, Muslims also took the Bible to predict the coming of Muhammad and the rise of Islam. They seem to have used mainly oral Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible and recorded some lost Jewish interpretations. In tracing the connections between pagan, Islamic, and modern Bible criticism, Lazarus-Yafeh demonstrates the importance of Muslim mediation between the ancient world and Europe in a hitherto unknown field. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400862736

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9781400862733

Eva's Journey

A Young Girl's True Story

By: Hava Zvi,Hava Ben-Zvi

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A Young Girl's True Story

By: Hava Zvi,Hava Ben-Zvi

Memior of growing up in Poland during the Holocaust years.

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We Who Lived

Two Teenagers in World War II Poland

By: Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi

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Two Teenagers in World War II Poland

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