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Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash

By: Yael Fisch

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Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash

By: Yael Fisch

This volume is a study in ancient scriptural hermeneutics, that promotes new ways to think about Paul’s interpretation of scripture and rabbinic midrash together and for the benefit of both. It analyses exegetical techniques that both Paul and the Tannaim use and opens new perspectives on how they conceive of scripture and its ideal readers.

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9004511598

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9789004511590

How Close Reading Made Us

The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism

By: Yael Segalovitz

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How Close Reading Made Us

The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism

By: Yael Segalovitz

Does reading shape who we are? What happens to the relationship between reading and subject-formation as methods of interpretation travel globally? Yael Segalovitz probes these questions by tracing the transnational journey of the New Critical practice of close reading from the United States to Brazil and Israel in the mid-twentieth century. Challenging the traditional view of New Criticism as a purely aesthetic project, Segalovitz illustrates its underlying pedagogical objective: to cultivate close readers capable of momentarily suspending subjectivity through focused attention. How Close Reading Made Us shows that close reading, as a technique of the self, exerted a far-reaching influence on international modernist literary production, impacting writers such as Clarice Lispector, Yehuda Amichai, William Faulkner, João Guimarães Rosa, and A. B. Yehoshua. To appreciate close reading's enduring vitality in literary studies and effectively adapt this method to the present, Segalovitz argues, we must comprehend its many legacies beyond the confines of the Anglophone tradition.

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395

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State University of New York Press

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1438498705

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9781438498706

No Room of Their Own

Gender and Nation in Israeli Women's Fiction

By: Yael S. Feldman

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No Room of Their Own

Gender and Nation in Israeli Women's Fiction

By: Yael S. Feldman

No Room of Their Own is a comparative analysis of recent Israeli fiction by women and some of its Western models, from Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir to Marilyn French and Marie Cardinal. Feldman shows the richness and subtleties of Israeli women's fiction as she explores the themes of gender and nation, as well as the (non)representation of the "New Hebrew Woman" in five authors--Amalia Kahana-Carmon, Shulamith Hareven, Netiva BenYehuda, Ruth Almog, and Shulamit Lapid.

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364

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Columbia University Press

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0231111479

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9780231111478

Glory and Agony

Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative

By: Yael Feldman

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Glory and Agony

Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative

By: Yael Feldman

Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting "primal scene" of sacrifice, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, as evidenced in wide-ranging sources from the domains of literature, art, psychology, philosophy, and politics. By placing these sources in conversation with twentieth-century thinking on human sacrifice, violence, and martyrdom, this study draws a complex picture that provides multiple, sometimes contradictory insights into the genesis and gender of national sacrifice. Extending back over two millennia, this study unearths retellings of biblical and classical narratives of sacrifice, both enacted and aborted, voluntary and violent, male and female—Isaac, Ishmael, Jephthah's daughter, Iphigenia, Jesus. Glory and Agony traces the birth of national sacrifice out of the ruins of religious martyrdom, exposing the sacred underside of Western secularism in Israel as elsewhere.

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442

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Stanford University Press

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0804777365

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9780804777360

Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism

Resistance, Identity, and Religious Change in Israel

By: Yael Israel-Cohen

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Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism

Resistance, Identity, and Religious Change in Israel

By: Yael Israel-Cohen

In Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism, Yael Israel-Cohen offers an intricate picture of feminist religious identity, resistance, and religious change.

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162

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BRILL

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9004234837

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9789004234833

Ennion: Master of Roman Glass

By: Christopher S. Lightfoot,Zrinka Buljević,Yael Israeli ,Karol B. Wight,Lisa Pilosi ,Mark T. Wypyski

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Ennion: Master of Roman Glass

By: Christopher S. Lightfoot,Zrinka Buljević,Yael Israeli ,Karol B. Wight,Lisa Pilosi ,Mark T. Wypyski

Among glass craftsman active in the 1st century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who hailed from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. Ennion’s glass stood out for its quality and popularity. His products are distinguished by the fine detail and precision of their relief decoration, which imitates designs found on contemporaneous silverware. This compact, but thorough volume examines the most innovative and elegant known examples of Roman mold-blown glass, providing a uniquely comprehensive, up-to-date study of these exceptional works. Included are some twenty-six remarkably preserved examples of drinking cups, bowls, and jugs signed by Ennion himself, as well as fifteen additional vessels that were clearly influenced by him. The informative texts and illustrations effectively convey the lasting aesthetic appeal of Ennion’s vessels, and offer an accessible introduction to an ancient art form that reached its apogee in the early decades of the Roman Empire.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0300208774

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9780300208771

New Wire Crochet Jewelry

By: Yael Falk

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New Wire Crochet Jewelry

By: Yael Falk

Jewelry makers and wirework artists! We know how much you love exploring fresh and innovative techniques. Wire Crochet Jewelry is your new, must-have guide to creating smart, sophisticated jewelry designs with hook and wire. Beautiful crochet jewelry can be made of thread or yarn, of course, but you really expand your options when you learn to crochet with wire and beads. Popular designer Yael Falk's step-by-step tutorials make it easy to create a variety of projects. Open this book and discover: • Materials information on choosing the right wires, crochet hooks, jewelry tools, and beads. • Detailed how-to information on crocheting contemporary wire jewelry, stitch-by-stitch. • Plus 17 projects shown step-by-step that make wire crochet designs achievable for a variety of skill levels. Look at your wire in a whole new way when you learn to crochet jewelry. Wire Crochet Jewelry will show you how!

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Penguin

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0593190912

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9780593190913

Desert in the Promised Land

By: Yael Zerubavel

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Desert in the Promised Land

By: Yael Zerubavel

“A complex and fascinating portrait of Israel . . . .an engaging book that combines anthropology, culture, and history.” —Anita Shapira, author of Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews’ biblical roots that inspired the Hebrew culture, and as the barren land outside the Jewish settlements in Palestine, featuring them as an oasis of order and technological progress within a symbolic desert. Yael Zerubavel tells the story of the desert from the early twentieth century to the present, shedding light on romantic-mythical associations, settlement and security concerns, environmental sympathies, and the commodifying tourist gaze. Drawing on literary narratives, educational texts, newspaper articles, tourist materials, films, popular songs, posters, photographs, and cartoons, Zerubavel reveals the complexities and contradictions that mark Israeli society’s semiotics of space in relation to the Middle East, and the central role of the “besieged island” trope in Israeli culture and politics.

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Stanford University Press

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1503607607

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Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash

By: Yael Fisch

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Directing the Heart

Weekly Mindfulness Teachings and Practices from the Torah

By: Rabbi Yael Levy

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Directing the Heart

Weekly Mindfulness Teachings and Practices from the Torah

By: Rabbi Yael Levy

Directing the Heart: Weekly Mindfulness Teachings and Practices from the Torah" contains meditations and suggestions for Mindfulness practice inspired by the first five books of the Bible. For each week of the year, Rabbi Yael Levy searches out teachings from the Torah for guidance on how to love in the face of loss, to be open to joy, gratitude and beauty and to live with disappointments, sadness and pain. Using Rabbi Levy's own translations from the Hebrew, "Directing the Heart" can serve as a sourcebook for spiritual exploration for people of all faiths and paths. The book highlights the usefulness of taking time each day to set intentions and engage in spiritual practice. Each chapter includes a poetic meditation on the week's text followed by a recommendation for how to bring the teaching into daily life. Interest in Mindfulness has moved into mainstream American culture and Jewish Mindfulness adds an innovative spiritual component; Rabbi Levy has been exploring its potential for nearly two decades. Her approach strives to awaken the attention - to direct the heart - and strengthen the ability to meet well all that we encounter.

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Way In, Incorporated

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1733238409

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9781733238403

Journey Through the Wilderness

A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer

By: Rabbi Yael Levy

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Journey Through the Wilderness

A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer

By: Rabbi Yael Levy

In this book, Rabbi Yael Levy gathers wisdom from Psalms and the Jewish mystical tradition into a unique Mindfulness approach to the ancient Jewish practice of Counting the Omer during the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot. This 96-page, full-color guide includes the Omer blessings in Hebrew and English, daily teachings and intentions, pages for reflections and photographs to inspire meditation. Daily suggestions for action deepen the experience of counting each day and making each day count. Using insights gained from more than a decade of her own spiritual exploration with the Omer, Rabbi Levy has created a guide for spiritual growth for beginners and those who have experience with this practice.

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1470083221

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The Lonely Tree

By: Yael Politis

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The Lonely Tree

By: Yael Politis

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Tonia moves with her family from Poland to British Mandate Palestine, first to her uncle's small apartment in Tel Aviv and later to the kibbutz that her father Josef helped to establish. Due to the hardships of life in the kibbutz and against the backdrop of what is happening in Nazi-occupied Europe, she longs for security and comfort. Amos is a handsome and exotic Yemenite who fights in the Jewish underground, to which Tonia's father is vehemently opposed. Despite their different backgrounds, Tonia and Amos fall in love.This budding romance is interrupted by the siege of Tonia's home, Kfar Etzion. Tonia finally achieves her dream and moves to Michigan in the US, hoping her family will follow her. But is this where she belongs? The desperate fight is described very movingly and it is the first fictionalized account of the true story of the siege and fall of the Etzion Bloc.

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1907320083

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Lonely Tree

By: Yael Politis

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Lonely Tree

By: Yael Politis

Tonia Shulman does not share her father's dream - forging a Jewish State out of the chaos of British Mandate Palestine. She hates the hardships of life in an isolated kibbutz south of Jerusalem -- clearing rocky hillsides, washing in rationed cups of trucked-in water, and being confined behind barbed wire. Her own dreams have nothing to do with national self-realization; she longs for steaming bubble baths and down comforters, but most of all for a place on earth where she can feel safe. She falls in love with Amos but refuses to acknowledge these feelings. She knows he will never leave his homeland, and Tonia plans to emigrate to America. But can she really begin a new life there? The beginning of The Lonely Tree is interwoven with the true story of Kfar Etzion, a kibbutz that was overrun by the Arab Legion during pre-War of Independence hostilities. Yael Politis is a native of Michigan and has lived in Israel since 1973. In her spare time from writing fiction, she is employed as a Proposal Writer, Editor, and Hebrew-English Translator.

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1849230897

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Book's by Yael Fisch

Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash

Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash

How Close Reading Made Us

How Close Reading Made Us

No Room of Their Own

No Room of Their Own

Glory and Agony

Glory and Agony

Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism

Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism

Ennion: Master of Roman Glass

Ennion: Master of Roman Glass

New Wire Crochet Jewelry

New Wire Crochet Jewelry

Desert in the Promised Land

Desert in the Promised Land

Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash

Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash

Directing the Heart

Directing the Heart

Journey Through the Wilderness

Journey Through the Wilderness

The Lonely Tree

The Lonely Tree

Lonely Tree

Lonely Tree

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