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Exile and the Jews
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Exile and the Jews

Literature, History, and Identity
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
EUR35,00

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Exile and the Jews anthologizes texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity, from the Hebrew Bible to the present, exploring how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Jewish religion, politics, and identity.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8276-1555-7
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsdatum01.04.2024
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 17 mm
Gewicht440 g
Artikel-Nr.26804170
KatalogLibri
Datenquelle-Nr.A47104110
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Nancy E. Berg is professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq and coeditor with Naomi B. Sokoloff of the National Jewish Book Award-winning What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (And What It Means to Americans). Marc Saperstein served as principal and professor of Jewish history and homiletics of the Leo Baeck College, London. His dozen books include "Your Voice like a Ram's Horn": Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Preaching, a National Jewish Book Award winner in Scholarship, and Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder, 1933-1945.

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