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New Jewish Voices

Plays Produced by the Jewish Repertory Theatre

By: Jewish Repertory Theatre

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New Jewish Voices

Plays Produced by the Jewish Repertory Theatre

By: Jewish Repertory Theatre

New Jewish Voices presents the first anthology of modern Jewish-American drama. These highly acclaimed plays, previously produced by New York City's nationally-renowned Jewish Repertory Theatre, offer an enjoyable and eye-opening introduction to the unique and modern voice of five young writers. The insights and visions of these playwrights will help redefine Jewish theater. While offering college students and amateur dramatic groups exciting new material, these five plays will entertain and delight every reader. An introduction by Edward M. Cohen, associate director of Jewish Repertory Theatre, outlines the history of Jewish theatre in America, the origins and development of the Jewish Repertory Theatre, the methods and programs of play development used at the theatre, and an analysis of current trends in modern Jewish playwriting. The anthology also includes production photos, a list of all plays produced by the theatre, and original scripts.

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SUNY Press

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0873959965

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9780873959964

Guide to the YIVO Archives

By: Yivo Institute For Jewish Research

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Guide to the YIVO Archives

By: Yivo Institute For Jewish Research

YIVO, founded in 1925 in Wilno (Vilnius), is a center for scholarship on East European Jewish history, language, and culture. During the 1920s and early 1930s a network of YIVO affiliates was established across Europe and the Americas including one in New York, which became the institute's new home when YIVO was reestablished in 1940 by members of its board who had escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe. This is the first repository-level finding aid to the archives (over 1,400 collections) of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. It includes a brief history of the institute and archives, descriptive entries on each collection, a detailed index of key words and subject headings, and information on the archive's basic services.

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555

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Routledge

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1315503190

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9781315503196

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5

The Early Modern Era, 1500-1750

By: Posen Library of Jewish culture and civilization (Lucerne, Switzerland)

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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5

The Early Modern Era, 1500-1750

By: Posen Library of Jewish culture and civilization (Lucerne, Switzerland)

The fifth volume of the Posen Library demonstrates through a rich array of texts and images the extraordinary diversity of Jewish life during the early modern period "A rich and varied gateway into the primary source material of early modern Jewish history that is very strong on geographical diversity. A magnificent achievement."--Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5, covering the early modern period (1500-1750), presents a variety of Jewish texts to demonstrate the diversity of Jewish culture and life. These texts originate from Eastern and Western Europe, the Americas, the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, Kurdistan, Persia, Yemen, India--in short, a worldwide diaspora. They embrace historical writing and religious scholarship, liturgical expression and economic records, ethics and personal devotion, correspondence and communal regulations, art and music, architecture and poetry. The simultaneous centrifugal and centripetal character of Jewish communities during this era illustrates the distinctiveness of the early modern period in Jewish history and informs developments in world history at large. Including texts written by women, a robust collection of images, and extensive material not previously accessible to English-language readers, this volume is rich, deep, and enlightening.

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1392

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Yale University Press

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0300135513

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9780300135510

The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute Planning Assessment, 2004-2005

The Jewish People Between Thriving and Decline

By: Sergio Della Pergola,Jewish People Policy Planning Institute

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The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute Planning Assessment, 2004-2005

The Jewish People Between Thriving and Decline

By: Sergio Della Pergola,Jewish People Policy Planning Institute

This volume comprises three main parts: The first includes five broad overviews of the current status of Jewish affairs. The second part includes six chapters, each of which reviews the main recent trends and policy issues relevant to Jewish life in six world regions which articulate contemporary Jewish life: North America; Latin America; Europe and the European Union; the Former Soviet Union; Asia, Africa, and the Pacific; and Israel. The third part introduces an overview of the goals and tasks accomplished by the main Jewish institutions and organizations worldwide in the definition and defense of Jewish interests.

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678

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Gefen Publishing House Ltd

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9652293466

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9789652293466

A Living Tree

The Roots and Growth of Jewish Law

By: Elliot N. Dorff,Arthur I. Rosett,Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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A Living Tree

The Roots and Growth of Jewish Law

By: Elliot N. Dorff,Arthur I. Rosett,Jewish Theological Seminary of America

This book examines biblical and rabbinic law as a coherent, continuing legal tradition. It explains the relationship between religion and law and the interaction between law and morality. Abundant selections from primary Jewish sources, many newly translated, enable the reader to address the tradition directly as a living body of law with emphasis on the concerns that are primary for lawyers, legislators, and judges. Through an in-depth examination of personal injury law and marriage and divorce law, the book explores jurisprudential issues important for any legal system and displays the primary characteristics of Jewish law. A Living Tree will be of special interest to students of law and to Jews curious about the legal dimensions of their tradition. The authors provide sufficient explanations of the sources and their significance to make it unnecessary for the reader to have a background in either Jewish studies or law.

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622

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SUNY Press

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0887064590

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9780887064593

The Torah

By: Jewish Publication Society

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The Torah

By: Jewish Publication Society

Here is an elegant, authoritative gift edition of the sacred Torah illustrated with Jewish art and iconography from around the world. Ancient frescoes, medieval illuminated manuscripts, and paintings by contemporary Ethiopian Jewish artists in the Copic style grace these pages--making this an excellent gift for a child studying for the Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Includes 125 full-color illustrations.

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406

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Macmillan

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0805048200

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9780805048209

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New Jewish Voices

New Jewish Voices

Guide to the YIVO Archives

Guide to the YIVO Archives

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5

The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute Planning Assessment, 2004-2005

The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute Planning Assessment, 2004-2005

A Living Tree

A Living Tree

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The Torah

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