books about: contraversions     books:     Contraversions      The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible Ilana Pardes University of California Press, 2002 Imagining a Nation Ilana Pardes's book, 'The Biography of Ancient Israel,' is, quite simply, a tour de force. In the most concise, persuasive, but deliciously self-interrogating manner, Pardes projects a psychoanalytic model of development onto the story of the 'children of Israel' who, ...             A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc) Benjamin Sommer Stanford University Press, 1998 Thoughtful exploration of the Hebrew prophetic tradition Deutero-Isaiah occupies a significant place in the cast of Hebrew prophets. He is at once of the same generation of the great exilic prophets Ezekiel and Jeremiah, while at the same time a seminal figure for the lesser prophets. His quest to legitimize his message ...             Conversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer (Contraversions - ... Amia Leiblich University of California Press, 1997 The life of Dvora Baron (1887-1956) evokes both inspiration and mystery. She was born in a Russian shtetl , the precocious daughter of a rabbi. Her intellectual gifts garnered her an education usually reserved for boys, and she soon proved a brilliant writer, widely published while still in her teens. At age twenty-three she immigrated to ...             Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (Contraversions - Critical ... Daniel Boyarin University of California Press, 1997 Boyarin is wild--Salkin goes one step further This is one of the best Jewish books that I have read recently. The best thing about Boyarin is that he has this ability to really synthesize the Jewish male ethos. I don't agree with his anti-Zionism, though...After reading this I read Rabbi Jeff Salkin's new book ...             Language in Time of Revolution (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc) Benjamin Harshav Stanford University Press, 1999 This book on culture and consciousness in history concerns the worldwide transformations of Jewish culture and society and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language following the waves of pogroms in Russia in 1881, when large numbers of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe redefined their identity as Jews in a new and baffling world. Reviews ...             Modernity, Culture, & 'the Jew' (Contraversions Series: Jew & Other Differences) Stanford University Press, 1998 This book provides a rich and wide-ranging analysis of Jewish history and culture, relating them to theories of modernity and postmodernity and to recent debates on ethnicity and postcolonialism. The sixteen essays are divided into four parts, addressing psychoanalysis and gender, literary antisemitism, modernity/postmodernity and ?the Jew,? and ...             Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov (Contraversions ; 5) Moshe Rosman University of California Press, 1996 A new classic in Hasidic history Professor Rosman succeeds at portraying the Ba'al Shem Tov, Israel ben Eliezer of Miedzyboz, in his environment of the Polish-Lithuanian shtetls and in the midst of the politics and economics of the Jewish kahal, and the Polish, post-Russo-Swedish War nobility. He also ...             The Meaning of Yiddish (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc) Benjamin Harshav Stanford University Press, 1999 Insight into Yiddish language and culture In The Meaning Of Yiddish, Benjamin Harshav (Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale University) has written an impressive work of scholar erudition and insight into the major aspects of the Yiddish language and culture. ...             Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc) Benjamin Harshav Stanford University Press, 2003 This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses the 98 years of Chagall?s life (1887-1985) in Russia, France, the US, as well as Germany and Israel, his deep roots in folk culture, his personal relationships and ...             Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (Contraversions: Jews and Other ... Charlotte Fonrobert Stanford University Press, 2002 Perhaps more than any other aspect of rabbinic literature, the laws about and discussions of menstruation have polarized current discussions of gender relations in Jewish culture. Is the designated impurity of menstruation sexist? Or does ritual absence from sex during menstruation encourage a rhythmic reaffirmation of conjugal intimacy? This book ...             God's Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible Stephen Moore Stanford University Press, 2002 Queer - and very very good Here are four papers, of a distinctly dubious nature, that were written by Professor Moore over a number of years (and having gone through a number of versions) that are now presented in conjunction with Moore's interest, no, fixation with the sexual and the aesthetic. ...             First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity Shelly Matthews Stanford University Press, 2002 It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity. This book provides a new reading of sources from which this truism springs, focusing on two texts from the turn of the first century, Josephus's Antiquities and Luke's Acts .             Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish (Contraversions: Jews and Other ... James Matisoff Stanford University Press, 2000 In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions. It is a rarity among scholarly books, for it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic argumentation. The author analyzes the many kinds of ...             A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (Contraversions, 1) Daniel Boyarin University of California Press, 1997 Boyarin's Conception of St. Paul's Flesh and Spirit This work is one of the most insightful to appear upon Paul the Apostle in years. Recognizing that specifically Lutheran and generally Protestant understandings of Paul have been knowingly or unknowingly anti-Jewish, Boyarin sees beyond mere church theologizing toward ...             The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania Gail Kligman University of California Press, 1998 Vai, Alexandru, n-a fost atat de rau! I'm an American woman living and working in Romania, and I have to disagree with Alexandru. From all I hear from my friends both male and female, this book isn't off-target at all. It IS true that many people say Ceasescu's policies didn't affect their lives "all ...          products you might be interested in search for books contraversions, conversations, heterosexuality, psycho-ostensive, reconstructions, reproduction      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Les limites de la liberté contractuelle : Droit des sociétés