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An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early…
twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme cases, hundreds of these women sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Those who stayed home often remained Jewish in name only.Relying on a wealth of archival documents, including court testimonies, letters, diaries, and press reports, Rachel Manekin reconstructs the stories of three Jewish women runaways and reveals their struggles and innermost convictions. Unlike Orthodox Jewish boys, who attended "cheders," traditional schools where only Jewish subjects were taught, Orthodox Jewish girls were sent to Polish primary schools. When the time came for them to marry, many young women rebelled against the marriages arranged by their parents, with some wishing to pursue secondary and university education. After World War I, the crisis of the rebellious daughters in Kraków spurred the introduction of formal religious education for young Orthodox Jewish women in Poland, which later developed into a worldwide educational movement. Manekin chronicles the belated Orthodox response and argues that these educational innovations not only kept Orthodox Jewish women within the fold but also foreclosed their opportunities for higher education.Exploring the estrangement of young Jewish women from traditional Judaism in Habsburg Galicia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Rebellion of the Daughters brings to light a forgotten yet significant episode in Eastern European history.Israelism in Modern Britain (Routledge New Religions)
By Aidan Cottrell-Boyce. 2021
This book unpacks the history of British-Israelism in the UK. Remarkably, this subject has had very little attention: remarkable, because…
at its height in the post-war era, the British-Israelist movement could claim to have tens of thousands of card-carrying adherents and counted amongst its membership admirals, peers, television personalities, MPs and members of the royal family including the King of England. British-Israelism is the belief that the people of Britain are the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. It originated in the writing of a Scottish historian named John Wilson, who toured the country in the mid-Nineteenth Century. Providing a guide to the history of British-Israelism as a movement, including the formation of the British-Israel World Federation, Covenant Publishing, and other institutions, the book explores the complex ways in which British-Israelist thought mirrored developments in ethnic British nationalism during the Twentieth Century. A detailed study on the subject of British-Israelism is necessary, because British-Israelists constitute an essential element of British life during the most violent and consequential century of its history. As such, this will be a vital resource for any scholar of Minority Religions, New Religious Movements, Nationalism and British Religious History.Another Modernity: Elia Benamozegh’s Jewish Universalism (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
By Clémence Boulouque. 2020
Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose…
work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a prolific writer and transnational thinker who corresponded widely with religious and intellectual figures in France, the Maghreb, and the Middle East. This idiosyncratic figure, who argued for the universalism of Judaism and for interreligious engagement, came to influence a spectrum of religious thinkers so varied that it includes proponents of the ecumenical Second Vatican Council, American evangelists, and right-wing Zionists in Israel. What Benamozegh proposed was unprecedented: that the Jewish tradition presented a solution to the religious crisis of modernity. According to Benamozegh, the defining features of Judaism were universalism, a capacity to foster interreligious engagement, and the political power and mythical allure of its theosophical tradition, Kabbalah—all of which made the Jewish tradition uniquely equipped to assuage the post-Enlightenment tensions between religion and reason. In this book, Clémence Boulouque presents a wide-ranging and nuanced investigation of Benamozegh's published and unpublished work and his continuing legacy, considering his impact on Christian-Jewish dialogue as well as on far-right Christians and right-wing religious Zionists.Living Emunah: Achieving a Life of Serenity Through Faith (Living Emunah #3)
By David Ashear. 2017
Emunah. Believe it. Live it. Feel it! Strengthening emunah, our faith in Hashem, in His Providence, in His infinite goodness,…
enriches and even transforms our lives. Emunah replaces anxiety with optimism, and grants us serenity in place of fear. With nearly 100,000 copies in print, the Living Emunah series has become the premier resource for those - and there are so, so many of us - who have embarked on the wonderful journey to emunah. And what a journey it is! Filled with healing, comfort, and the knowledge that Hashem is with us everywhere - in the traffic jam, the hospital unit, the boardroom and the bank. Emunah accompanies us in the hard times, a faithful friend who reminds us that we are never alone, never abandoned, a soothing voice that tells us not to lose hope. Living Emunah 3 continues to guide us on this marvelous and rewarding path. With stories and with the wisdom of the Sages, each brief and absorbing segment melds the classic Torah understanding of faith with our day-to-day encounters. It reinforces and deepens our understanding of HashemÂ’s love for us in all times and situations. When we transform our relationship to Hashem through emunah, we transform our relationships to others as well. Jealousy, anger, and frustration have no place in a world of emunah. As our love for Hashem grows stronger so, too, does our love for others (yes, including our love for ourselves!). Not everyone, says Rabbi David Ashear, author of the Living Emunah books, can be a gadol ha’dor, a great Torah sage. But anyone can become a “gadol b’emunah,” a giant in faith and trust. Like the earlier books in the series, Living Emunah 3 gives us the tools, the inspiration, and the understanding we need for the journey to emunah. Have a wonderful trip!The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help
By Faris Cassell. 2020
Dear Madam — You are surely informed about the situation of all Jews in Central Europe and this letter will…
not astonish you. In August 1939, just days before World War II broke out in Europe, a Jewish man in Vienna named Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to a stranger in America who shared his last name. By pure chance I got your address . . . I beg you instantly to send for me and my wife... Decades later, journalist Faris Cassell stumbled upon the stunning letter and became determined to uncover the story behind it. How did the American Bergers respond? Did Alfred and his family escape Nazi Germany? Over a decade-long investigation in which she traveled thousands of miles, explored archives and offices in Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, and Israel, interviewed descendants, and found letters, photos, and sketches made by family members during the Holocaust, Cassell wrote the devastating true story of The Unanswered Letter.WorldPerfect: The Jewish Impact on Civilization
By Rabbi Ken Spiro. 2002
In pursuit of an answer to the question of what would constitute a perfect world, author Ken Spiro questioned more…
than 1,500 people of various backgrounds and religions. His findings revealed six core elements: Respect for human life; peace and harmony; justice and equality; education; family; and social responsibility. He then set off on a journey to find out why these were such common goals across cultural, economic, social and racial lines, and in the process, traced the history of the development of world religions, values and ethics. As a rabbi, he paid particular attention to how Judaism impacted, and was influenced by, the course of these developments. The result is a highly readable and well-documented book about the origins of values and virtues in Western civilization as influenced by the Greeks, Romans, Christians, Muslims and, most significantly, the Jews. The history of religion, presented in Spiro’s highly readable style, is a fascinating and timely subject, especially in today’s volatile religious climate. Spiro divides his book into five engaging parts: Where the Quality of Mercy Was Not Strained: The World of Greece and Rome Against the Grain: The Jewish View A Father to Many Nations: Abraham and the Implications of Monotheism With Sword and Fire: The Rise of Christianity and Islam The New Promised Land: Impact of Judaism on Liberal Democracies Readers of all faiths will find that the elements of a perfect world can only be achieved by a common understanding of our mutual backgrounds and that our diverse religions are all merely branches growing from one single tree.Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence
By Janina Struk. 2005
Atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust were photographed more intensely that any before. In the time since the…
images were taken they have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and above all exploited for propaganda purposes. With the use of many photographs, including some never before seen, this book traces the history of this process and asks whether the images can be true representations of the events they were depicting. Yet their provenance, Janina Struk argues, has been less important that the uses to which a wide range of political interests has put them, from the desperate attempts of the war-time underground to provide hard evidence of the death camps to the memorial museums of Europe, the US and Israel today.Liar Liar: Breaking the Silence on Sexual Assault (The inspirational Ser.)
By Laurie Katz. 2018
Like any student about to start university, Laurie Katz was excited to see what the year would bring. Little did…
she know that just three weeks into her first term, her life would come crashing down around her.What had started as a fun night out with friends ended with Laurie, alone with a terrible secret: she had been raped.Traumatised and confused, she set out to get justice against her attacker. But when the authorities at her university dismissed her case, and warned her that she could be expelled, she was left unsure where to turn. It seemed as though things couldn't get worse... then her attacker filed his own case.Laurie's story is a brave and honest reminder of the injustice still felt in society around sexual abuse. Set against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement, Laurie demonstrates that sometimes it's hope that can set you free.Stories of Jewish Life: Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985 is an unconventional memoir—an integrated collection of short stories and personal essays. Author…
Augusto Segre was a well-known public figure in post–WWII Italy who worked as a journalist, educator, scholar, editor, activist, and rabbi. He begins his book with stories shaped from the oral narratives of his home community as it emerged from the ghetto era, continues with his own experiences under fascism and as a partisan in WWII, and ends with his emigration to Israel. Spanning the years 1876 (one generation after emancipation from the ghetto) to 1985 (one generation after the Shoah), Segre presents this period as an era in which Italian Jewry underwent a long-term internal crisis that challenged its core values and identity. He embeds the major cultural and political trends of the era in small yet telling episodes from the lives of ordinary people. The first half of the book takes place in Casale Monferrato—a small provincial capital in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy. The second half, continuing in Casale in the late 1920s but eventually shifting to Rome then Jerusalem, follows the experiences of a boy named Moshè (Segre’s Jewish name and his stand-in). Moshè relates episodes of Italian Jewry from the 1920s to the 1980s that portray the insidiousness of fascism as well as the contradictions within the Jewish community, especially in its post-ghetto relationship to Italian society. The painful transformation of Italian Jewry manifests itself in universal themes: the seductiveness of modern life, the betrayal of tradition, the attraction of fashionable political movements, the corrosive effects of totalitarianism, and ultimately, on the positive side, national rebirth and renewal in Israel. These themes give the book significance beyond the "small world" from which they arise because they are issues that confront any society, especially those emerging from a traditional way of life and entering the modern world. Students, scholars, and readers of Jewish history, Italian history, and fiction with an autobiographical thread will find themselves captivated by Segre’s stories.Hope After Betrayal: Healing When Sexual Addiction Invades Your Marriage
By Meg Wilson. 2007
Meg is a lantern guiding women through the twists and turns along this pain-filled path.--Lynn Marie Cherry, speaker and author…
of Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom After BetrayalMeg Wilson watched her world fall apart when her husband confessed to years of sexual addiction. She has intimate knowledge of the devastation that follows--and she has come through the other side.In her groundbreaking Hope After Betrayal, Meg provides reassuring counsel, compassionate insight, and wise direction. By sharing her story, talking to other women who've been in a similar situation, and turning to Scripture, Wilson has helped countless readers through the steps to recovery--and shows how you can follow that same path out of the darkness.This newly revised and expanded edition includes new lessons Meg has learned over the last decade. A compelling final chapter by Meg's husband sheds further light on the difficult road to healing from sexual addiction, and a thoughtful new appendix addresses the effect sexual addiction has on children in the home."Hope After Betrayal is a strong and sure lifeline that thousands of women will reach for in a drowning moment. Meg offers careful, clear direction and encouragement in each chapter while unveiling the truth about sexual addiction. . . . This valuable tool should be required reading for every wife and every mother of sons."--Robin Jones Gunn, best-selling author of the Sisterchicks SeriesConceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women
By Michal S. Raucher. 2020
Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women explores the ways Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproductive lives. Although…
they must contend with interference from doctors, rabbis, and the Israeli government, Haredi women find space for—and insist on—autonomy from them when they make decisions regarding the use of contraceptives, prenatal testing, fetal ultrasounds, and other reproductive practices. Drawing on their experiences of pregnancy, knowledge of cultural norms of reproduction, and theological beliefs, Raucher shows that Haredi women assert that they are in the best position to make decisions about reproduction.Conceiving Agency puts forward a new view of Haredi women acting in ways that challenge male authority and the structural hierarchies of their conservative religious tradition. Raucher asserts that Haredi women's reproductive agency is a demonstration of women's commitment to Haredi life and culture as well as an indication of how they define religious ethics.First Stone: Some Questions about Sex and Power
By Helen Garner. 1997
Helen Garner delves into the causes and effects of police charges pressed against the Master of Ormond College by two…
female students who claimed he fondled them at a school function. Two overriding questions trouble Ms. Garner throughout her investigations: why did these students choose to go to the police instead of having the matter settled through the school's private arbitration process, and why, when the Master was found innocent of these charges, was he terminated from his position? The First Stone is a call for hard-line feminists to grow up and get conscious. It asks for a new kind of feminism based on the cultivation of an individual's power of self-expression, responsibility, and, indeed, exactly the kind of self-discovery her insightful narrative represents.The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
By Dave Pelzer. 1997
Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possessions are the old, torn clothes he…
carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, his real hurt is just beginning -- he has no place to call home. This is Dave Pelzer's long-awaited sequel to A Child Called "It". In The Lost Boy, he answers questions and reveals new adventures through the compelling story of his life as an adolescent. Now considered an F-Child (Foster Child), Dave is moved in and out of five different homes. He suffers shame and experiences resentment from those who feel that all foster kids are trouble and unworthy of being loved just because they are not part of a "real" family. Tears, laughter, devastation and hope create the journey of this little lost boy who searches desperately for just one thing -- the love of a family.Judaism for the World: Reflections on God, Life, and Love
By Arthur Green. 2020
An internationally recognized scholar and theologian shares a Jewish mysticism for our times Judaism, one of the world&’s great spiritual…
traditions, is not addressed to Jews alone. In this masterful book, Arthur Green calls out to seekers of all sorts, offering a universal response to the eternal human questions of who we are, why we exist, where we are going, and how to live. Drawing on over half a century as a Jewish seeker and teacher, he shows us a Judaism that cultivates the life of the spirit, that inspires an inward journey leading precisely toward self-transcendence, to an awareness of the universal Self in whose presence we exist. As a neo-hasidic seeker, he is both devotional and boldly questioning in his understanding of God and tradition. Engaging with the mystical sources, he translates the insights of the Hasidic masters into a new religious language accessible to all those eager to build an inner life and a human society that treasures the divine spark in each person and throughout Creation.Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism
By Moshe Halbertal. 2020
A broad, systematic account of one of the most original and creative kabbalists, biblical interpreters, and Talmudic scholars the Jewish…
tradition has ever produced Rabbi Moses b. Nahman (1194–1270), known in English as Nahmanides, was the greatest Talmudic scholar of the thirteenth century and one of the deepest and most original biblical interpreters. Beyond his monumental scholastic achievements, Nahmanides was a distinguished kabbalist and mystic, and in his commentary on the Torah he dispensed esoteric kabbalistic teachings that he termed &“By Way of Truth.&” This broad, systematic account of Nahmanides&’s thought explores his conception of halakhah and his approach to the central concerns of medieval Jewish thought, including notions of God, history, revelation, and the reasons for the commandments. The relationship between Nahmanides&’s kabbalah and mysticism and the existential religious drive that nourishes them, as well as the legal and exoteric aspects of his thinking, are at the center of Moshe Halbertal&’s portrayal of Nahmanides as a complex and transformative thinker.Triumph of Survival: Story of the Jews, 1650-1990
By Berel Wein. 1990
Through his hundreds of lectures, Rabbi Wein has brought the Torah perspective on history to thousands of listeners. In this…
original work, he paints a magnificent, panoramic picture of our people in the centuries that shaped us and our world. This major work has the touches of luxury you expect in books of this magnitude, including a ribbon place-marker and embossed foil-stamped jacket. Large 8-1/2 x 11 coffee-table format. Beautifully written and illustrated, it is accurate and incisive, yet personal and passionate. It is informative, provocative, and inspiring. Seldom is must reading so enjoyable.Violación Personal
By David P. Warren. 2020
Cuando una ejecutiva es acosada y agredida por el director general de su compañía, y posteriormente despedida, un abogado tenaz…
estará determinado a hacer justicia. La ejecutiva Sarah Willis, decide buscar representación legal en el abogado Scott Winslow, luego de verse profundamente afectada y enfrentando el impacto psicológico de un ataque sexual violento durante un viaje de negocios. Inmediatamente después, Sarah será despedida debido a su presunto bajo rendimiento. Para armar su caso, Winslow deberá encontrar la manera de establecer evidencia concreta a pesar de las perspectivas enfrentadas. El segundo libro en la serie Los misterios judiciales de Scott Winslow, Violación personal es una historia ficticia dentro una realidad aterradora que refleja las lesiones substanciales causadas por la violación; los desafíos mentales y emocionales de buscar justicia; y deja entrever lo que sucede dentro del sistema judicial. Con el apoyo Lee Henry, un investigador, ex-agente de la CIA, para nada ortodoxo, Winslow sale en búsqueda de cada rastro de evidencia. Pero, ¿serán capaces de conectar todas las piezas y cerrar el caso?Grief and Addiction: Considering Loss in the Recovery Process
By Julie Bates-Maves. 2021
Grief and Addiction illuminates the role of grief work in addiction counseling, encouraging counselors to be more comprehensive in their…
treatment and to increase empathy for what the treatment process is asking of clients. Acknowledging that entering recovery includes a loss of coping skills, and that it requires building a new identity, this book focuses on addiction-specific grief work. Grief and Addiction integrates concepts like complicated grief, nonfinite loss, trauma, family grief responses, and treatment suggestions in one place—all with a focus on the application to addiction work. Featuring appendices with information and examples for clinicians, Grief and Addiction provides treatment strategies drawn from both the addiction and grief world for professionals and counselor educators.Hungry for Happiness, Revised and Updated: Stop Emotional Eating & Start Loving Yourself
By Samantha Skelly. 2020
Break free of the binge eating cycle and heal your relationship with your body by tapping into your intuition through…
meditation, breathwork, and journaling.WITH A FOREWORD BY NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR, LISA NICHOLSYOU KNOW IT IN YOUR HEART: It's time to break free of the cycle of emotional eating-from calorie restriction and bingeing-to become who you were designed to be. It's time to stop using food numb your pain and begin listening inward to your body's wisdom, to your highest self. Reconnect with your intuition, embrace your body, and heal your relationship with food with this practical and heart-centered guide-now completely revised and updated.Inspired by her personal journey from struggling dieter to self-love activist, Samantha Skelly's Hungry for Happiness workshops have helped thousands of women end their battles with emotional eating. This book isfilled with her relatable stories paired with journal exercises, mindset-shifts, meditations, and breathwork practices created to help you map your personal path toward feeling whole, healed, and happy.Now complete with daily prompts to reflect on each day of a month-long, alcohol-free plan, the author of This Naked…
Mind helps readers challenge their thinking, find clarity, and form new habits. Changing your habits can be hard without the right tools. This is especially true for alcohol because habits are, by definition, subconscious thought processes. Through her methodical research of the latest neuroscience and her own journey, Annie Grace has cracked the code on habit change by addressing the specific ways habits form. This unique and unprecedented method has now helped thousands redefine their relationship to drinking painlessly and without misery. In The Alcohol Experiment, Annie offers a judgment-free action plan for anyone who's ever wondered what life without alcohol is like. The rules are simple: Abstain from drinking for 30 days and just see how you feel. Annie arms her readers with the science-backed information to address the cultural and emotional conditioning we experience around alcohol. The result is a mindful approach that puts you back in control and permanently stops cravings.With a chapter and journal prompt devoted to each day of the experiment, Annie presents wisdom, tested strategies, and thought-provoking information to supplement the plan and support your step-by-step success as you learn what feels good for you. It's your body, your mind, and your choice.