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Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751

By: Yitzhak Hen

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Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751

By: Yitzhak Hen

Although often depicted as a barbaric and uncivilised society, in the full pejorative meaning of these words, Merovingian Gaul was clearly a Christian society and a direct continuation of the Roman civilisation in terms of social standards, morals and culture. Using insights provided by social history, archaeology, palaeography and anthropology, this book studies the problem of Christianisation in early Medieval Gaul from a cultural point of view. While exploiting a huge range of primary and secondary material, Dr. Hen does not confine himself to a functional analysis of various cultural and religious activities in Merovingian Gaul, but goes on to assess the consequences and implications of such activities for the people themselves, and for the subsequent developments in the Carolingian period.

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9004614575

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War by Agreement

A Contractarian Ethics of War

By: Yitzhak Benbaji,Daniel Statman

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War by Agreement

A Contractarian Ethics of War

By: Yitzhak Benbaji,Daniel Statman

War by Agreement presents a new theory on the ethics of war. It shows that wars can be morally justified at both the ad bellum level (the political decision to go to war) and the in bello level (its actual conduct by the military)by accepting a contractarian account of the rules governing war. According to this account, the rules of war are anchored in a mutually beneficial and fair agreement between the relevant players - the purpose of which is to promote peace and to reduce the horrors of war. The book relies on the long social contract tradition and illustrates its fruitfulness in understanding and developing the morality and the law of war.

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0199577196

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9780199577194

A Surplus of Memory

Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

By: Yitzhak ("Antek") Zuckerman

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A Surplus of Memory

Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

By: Yitzhak ("Antek") Zuckerman

In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym, Antek. Decades later, living in Israel, Antek dictated his memoirs. The Hebrew publication of Those Seven Years: 1939-1946 was a major event in the historiography of the Holocaust, and now Antek's memoirs are available in English. Unlike Holocaust books that focus on the annihilation of European Jews, Antek's account is of the daily struggle to maintain human dignity under the most dreadful conditions. His passionate, involved testimony, which combines detail, authenticity, and gripping immediacy, has unique historical importance. The memoirs situate the ghetto and the resistance in the social and political context that preceded them, when prewar Zionist and Socialist youth movements were gradually forged into what became the first significant armed resistance against the Nazis in all of occupied Europe. Antek also describes the activities of the resistance after the destruction of the ghetto, when 20,000 Jews hid in "Aryan" Warsaw and then participated in illegal immigration to Palestine after the war. The only extensive document by any Jewish resistance leader in Europe, Antek's book is central to understanding ghetto life and underground activities, Jewish resistance under the Nazis, and Polish-Jewish relations during and after the war. This extraordinary work is a fitting monument to the heroism of a people.

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669

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Univ of California Press

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0520912594

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9780520912595

Tzel Heharim

Tzitzit

By: Hertzel Hillel Yitzhak

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Tzel Heharim

Tzitzit

By: Hertzel Hillel Yitzhak

This highly praised book is the first comprehensive scholarly work in English to address exclusively the laws of tzitzit. In easy-to-understand text, Rabbi Dr. Hertzel Hillel Yitzhak successfully elucidates the complex laws and concepts of Sephardic tradition, making them accessible to readers of all backgrounds. Over seventy photographs and illustrations accompany his discussion of the minimally required dimensions of the tallit katan and tallit gadol; the step-by-step procedure of donning the tallit; four-cornered garments made of different materials; affixing the ritual strands; what to do if the ritual strands are torn, and other important topics. The first of a multi-volume set, this work is destined to become an indispensable reference for layman and scholar alike.

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390

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Feldheim Publishers

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1583302921

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9781583302927

Jewish Tales of Holy Women

By: Yitzhak Buxbaum

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Jewish Tales of Holy Women

By: Yitzhak Buxbaum

What is a "holy woman," or a holy man for that matter? According to the Jewish mystics, a holy person is someone who has not lost the holiness that every baby is born with. A holy person is someone who fulfills it. Stories about Jewish holy women have rarely been collected in such an engaging and entertaining form. The tales display a specifically female Jewish spirituality, giving us a peek into a world of devotional beauty that focuses on kindness. These stories of laughter and tears, humility and bravery, striving and trance, have an appeal spanning the denominational spectrum: they are spiritual nourishment for the soul. The rabbis say there are both male and female angels and angels are on earth as well as in heaven. These tales enhance our appreciation of the female angels on earth.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787966959

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9780787966959

The Rabin Memoirs, Expanded Edition with Recent Speeches, New Photographs, and an Afterword

By: Yitzhak Rabin

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The Rabin Memoirs, Expanded Edition with Recent Speeches, New Photographs, and an Afterword

By: Yitzhak Rabin

Rabin served as army chief-of-staff, ambassador to the United States, and finally as prime minister.

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Univ of California Press

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0520207661

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9780520207660

Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy

By: Yitzhak Buxbaum

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Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy

By: Yitzhak Buxbaum

Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy reveals the happiness that awaits us if we strive for real spirituality. The stories are about pious rabbis and humble tailors, about dancing, singing, laughing, and crying, but their common denominator is always joyous ecstasy. Drawing us into a world of devotion, the tales allow us to taste the bliss that comes from a life lived from the very center of one's self. Each story comes alive in joy and produces a "holy shiver" that speaks to the soul.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787966967

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9780787966966

Death of Lysanda

Two Novellas

By: Yitzhak Orpaz

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Death of Lysanda

Two Novellas

By: Yitzhak Orpaz

The Death of Lysanda collects two macabre novellas by one of Israel's greatest poets. In the title piece, we meet Naphtali Noi, a recently divorced proofreader, critic, and "creative" taxidermist, given to hallucinations and soon perhaps to add murder to his hobbies. Ants tells the story of a married couple, Jacob and Rachel, who discover that an army of the titular insects is threatening to destroy their rooftop apartment—but Rachel seems to be on their side rather than her husband's. In fragmented prose halfway between the Old Testament and the playful experiments of Julio Cortázar, these tales take to pieces the psyches of two men—and a nation—at war with themselves.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564789659

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9781564789655

Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul

A.D. 481-751

By: Yitzhak Hen

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Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul

A.D. 481-751

By: Yitzhak Hen

This book offers fascinating new thinking about the christianisation of early medieval Gaul, the liturgy of Gaul as a significant component of Merovingian culture, and the place of paganism and superstitions in the Merovingian world.

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BRILL

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9004103473

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9789004103474

The Royal Patronage of Liturgy in Frankish Gaul to the Death of Charles the Bald (877)

By: Yitzhak Hen

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The Royal Patronage of Liturgy in Frankish Gaul to the Death of Charles the Bald (877)

By: Yitzhak Hen

Royal patronage of liturgy was practised by both the Merovingians and the Carolingians, but it was Charlemagne who perceived and utilised the political power to be derived from such patronage.

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Henry Bradshaw Society

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1870252152

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9781870252157

Death of Lysanda: Two Novellas

By: Yitzhak Orpaz Averbuch

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Death of Lysanda: Two Novellas

By: Yitzhak Orpaz Averbuch

The Death of Lysanda was originally published in Hebrew as Mot Lysanda by Sifriat Poalim Ltd, 1964; This translation first published 1970 by Jonathan Cape; Ants was originally published in Hebrew as [sic] Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 1968; This translation first appeared in The Iowa Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter, 1980), pp. 10-56.--" Verso of title page.

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1564788679

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Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751

Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751

War by Agreement

War by Agreement

A Surplus of Memory

A Surplus of Memory

Tzel Heharim

Tzel Heharim

Jewish Tales of Holy Women

Jewish Tales of Holy Women

The Rabin Memoirs, Expanded Edition with Recent Speeches, New Photographs, and an Afterword

The Rabin Memoirs, Expanded Edition with Recent Speeches, New Photographs, and an Afterword

Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy

Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy

Death of Lysanda

Death of Lysanda

Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul

Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul

The Royal Patronage of Liturgy in Frankish Gaul to the Death of Charles the Bald (877)

The Royal Patronage of Liturgy in Frankish Gaul to the Death of Charles the Bald (877)

Death of Lysanda: Two Novellas

Death of Lysanda: Two Novellas

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