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Kabbalah and Hasidism Series

New in the Series Community and Heritage

New in the series Kabbalah and Hasidism

Third book in a series that explores the writings of Agnon from different perspectives

Translation to Hebrew of the English book PRAGUE AND BEYOND

Yefet ben 'Eli's Commentary on II Samuel and I Kings 1-2

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

Reminiscences Series

Zionism, Statehood and Settlement of the Land Series

Religious Zionism: Past, Present, Future

The housing crisis in the State of Israel is deepening and with it the need to think about new and creative solutions

Tamar Ross reviews the challenges that the feminist revolution poses to the Jewish tradition and the possible ways of responding

This book is intended for music lovers, educators and researchers, listeners, poets and writers and anyone who has a word and a sound in his heart

Reminiscences Series

Zionism, Settlement and Building of the Land Series

Kabbalah and Hasidism Series

The book is dedicated to the study of the spiritual world and the work of Rabbi Nahman of Braslav

Anthology of research articles dealing with the Yom Kippur War

Reminiscences Series

Translated from the original English version, this book focuses on design in general and geodesign in particular

Sidra is the only academic journal dedicated to the research of oral tradition literature

Ramat-Gan Prize for Hokhmat Yisrael, 1981

MAHSHAVOT Series

Kabbalah and Hasidism Series

MASA Series

This book proposes an interpretative-cultural analysis of written literary works and personal-documentary narratives of dying people and their families

Religious Zionism: Past, Present, Future Series

This book outlines the ways in which the ritual of the High Priest took shape in the Tannaitic literature

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

Peculium Abrae is a bilingual grammar of the Hebrew language written by Abraham de Balmes

This volume is a collection of historical documents that spans a period of a thousand years and reflects the historical reality of the social and legal status of Jews living in North African Muslim countries

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Granot Series

The periodical B.D.D. acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of new ideas, and the expression of different approaches to the interaction between Torah and general scholarship.

Issue 47

This book, the fourth in the series written by Prof. Dov Schwartz dealing with Rabbi Soloveitchik's thought, is mainly devoted to his work from the late 1960s

Critical Horizon Series

Alei Sefer is the only scientific journal in the study of the Hebrew book from all aspects – the history of the Hebrew book, its emergence and metamorphosis.

Reminiscences Series

Sources & Studies Series

The book raises a new research picture of Hasidic fiction

Thema Series

Community & Heritage Series

This book gathers all the derashot for the Book of Jonah from the Talmud and Midrash literature (150 sermons). The derashot are arranged according to the biblical sequence of verses in each chapter.

The chapters of the book are devoted to clarifying R. Shaul's conception of the issues discussed in Jewish thought in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period

From biblical to current times, a large number of fragrances have been recorded in Jewish literature. This book is dedicated to a discussion of the halakhic domain of the "blessings on scents" that evolved in the time of the Sages.

Sidra is the only academic journal dedicated to the research of oral tradition literature – including all aspects of rabbinic literature throughout the ages.

Miron reveals the connections of the work of four of the main modern Jewish artists: Haim-Nachman Bialik, Yitzhak Libush Peretz, Shaul Tchernichovsky and Uri-Zvi Greenberg

This book seeks to explore the Baal Shem Tov's revolution

This study purports to examine the status, roles and meanings of the nigun in the writings of Rabbi Nahman

A broad historical perspective informs this book, as well as an inclusive consideration of Rashi’s many and variegated writings related directly or indirectly to the Jewish-Christian polemic, which gained momentum in his lifetime.

The late Zevulun Hammer (1936-1998) was one of the prominent leaders of the National Religious Party (NRP) in Israel, and this book traces his political path. His story is not just the story of the man, it is the story of a generation.

Studies in Talmud and Halakhah Series

"Religious Zionism" is a journal published by the Dr. Zerach Verhaftig Institute for the Study of Religious Zionism, which deals with the history of religious Zionism, thought and creation among this movement and the processes it undergoes.

This volume examines international relations in an era of extensive political activity in the ancient Near East.

A book in honor of Elyakim Rubinstein

The essay includes a first biography of the Lebanese writer, born in 1948, and a first reading in Hebrew of the entirety of his work.

"Religious Zionism" is a collection of studies by the Zerah Warhaftig Institute for the Study of Religious Zionism.

The book is a real celebration for lovers of literature, caregivers and those seeking to decipher the wonders of the healing effects of literature on the psyche.

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

This monograph explores one of the most fascinating themes in Jewish and Hebrew fiction, Tamar, Wife of Er. The book covers more than 150 Jewish versions of the theme.

The periodical B.D.D. acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of new ideas, and the expression of different approaches to the interaction between Torah and general scholarship.

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic was the language spoken and written by Jews in parts of what are now Iraq and Iran from the third to the tenth centuries C.E., corresponding to the Talmudic and Geonic Periods.

The edition includes the original text in Judeao-Arabic of Yefet's translation and commentary on the Book of Zephaniah, and a Hebrew translation accompanied by rich notes and comparisons to sages' sources, medieval sources and even modern sources.

In this book, a manuscript that has been held privately is published for the first time and contains 22 new piyyutim written in the handwriting of Rabbi Shabazi.

In this issue, twelve articles were collected, each of which illuminates a unique angle of Hebrew and Jewish children's literature in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The book describes the encounter between religious Zionism and the global phenomenon of prolonged singlehood as it is reflected in the narratives of religious single men and women.

The name of this collection bears Yossel Birstein's unofficial will: "And since then - only stories".

The most important work of Maimonides' son, Abraham, expressing his original views on philosophy and Halakhah. Complete text with translation published for the first time.

This book deals with the theological and practical spheres of religious Zionism at the time of the founding of the state of Israel and in its early years.

An Annotated Scientific Edition of the Second Part of the Commentary of Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra, one of the greatest commentators of all generations, on the Book of Isaiah.

This collection enriches our knowledge of Rabbi Uziel and his work and heritage.

Alei Sefer is the only scientific journal in the study of the Hebrew book from all aspects – the history of the Hebrew book, its emergence and metamorphosis.

The book illuminates and examines the multifaceted utilizations of lot casting in Jewish tradition from the Bible to the late Renaissance.

Zionism, Settlement and Building of the Land Series

The book deals with the economics of the Jewish minority in the "Regat"(Old Rumania) from 1859 to 1914. The main study purpose is to define their economic structure while attempting to clarify : does the economic behavior of Regat Jews fit the economic be

This is a volume of research in Hebrew literature, dedicated to Prof. Avidav Lipsker - Researcher of Early and New Hebrew Prose and Historian of Hebrew Literature.

"Religious Zionism" is a collection of studies by the Zerah Warhaftig Institute for the Study of Religious Zionism.

The Second-Floor biographical essay presents for the first time the connection between the life history of writer Amalia Kahana-Carmon and her literary works. The details of this major writer’s personal life in Hebrew literature are revealed as fundamenta

This biography encompasses the history of David Ben-Gurion's life from his childhood and youth in his native Poland to his death in 1973.

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

This book reveals Rav Shneur Zalman's ambivalent attitude towards human intellect, and thus presents his thinking in a new and sometimes surprising light.

This book discusses the philosophy of Aaron David Gordon, known primarily as a pioneer and Zionist role modelץ

This book brings its readers in touch with the fascinating character of Pappenheim through a comprehensive collection and a variety of her letters in German to Hebrew translation.

The central argument of this book is that the literature of the Sages in all its aspects contains a deep and fundamental disagreement about the nature of religiosity itself.

A collection dealing with the history of religious Zionism, the philosophic philosophy of the religious Zionist movement, and the processes that the movement and the religious Zionist society are undergoing, from its founding in 1902 until today.

An annotated critical edition of Ibn Ezra's two commentaries on Megilat Esther.

This book seeks to offer a different perspective on halakhic thinking and to view it as a battlefield in which struggles are held over the shaping of Jewish life.

The book deals with encounters of aesthetic motifs in Jewish art, especially in combinations of text and sound, literature and music.

Prof. David Ohana follows the secret of the homeland's charm and its mysteries, the issues it raises and the meaning of its existence.

A pioneering study that offers a multidisciplinary reflection on Mount Herzl as a "sacred space" for Israeli society.

This book is an annotated translation from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew.

Ecology of Literature' is a new theoretical field that seeks to replace historiographic discourse with the 'literary republic'.

The periodical B.D.D. acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of new ideas, and the expression of different approaches to the interaction between Torah and general scholarship.

How do we think God? How do we talk about Him? What is our attitude to God and what is faith? This book seeks to address these questions and to propose a Jewish theology that encourages a moral posture in the world.

This most important book of Ibn Ezra, The Foundation of Awe and the Secret of the Torah, devoted to the numeration, classification and explanation of the biblical commandments, is written in an extremely short and enigmatic style. In order to make it acce

The main purpose of the book is to expose the philosophical positions embedded in literary works dealing with various philosophical questions.

Alei Sefer is the only scientific journal in the study of the Hebrew book from all aspects – the history of the Hebrew book, its emergence and metamorphosis.

This book offers an exhaustive study of this intriguing synthesis between the rules of Hebrew grammar, agreed upon and arranged in the early scriptures, and the logical and philosophical assumptions created mainly in Greek thought.

A collection dealing with the history of religious Zionism, the philosophic philosophy of the religious Zionist movement, and the processes that the movement and the religious Zionist society are undergoing, from its founding in 1902 until today.

Translated from the French to Hebrew, with an introduction, notes and an afterword by Prof. Elhanan Yakira of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

This collection of articles, "A New Spirit in the Palace of Torah", is dedicated to Prof. Tamar Ross. The articles, written by top researchers in interdisciplinary fields, seek to touch upon questions of infrastructure that resonate with her thought, and

A selection of Shmuel Zanvel Kahana’s writings on the Shoah, published for the first time.

This book offers for the first time a systematic analysis of the totality of Schweid's ideas, and is the first step in presenting his thought at the center of Jewish and Israeli discourse.

This book explore's Einstein's thought on the Zionist Enterprise and on the "Arab question".

First published in German in 1908 by Rabbi Max Mordechai Joseph, this book posits that the only way for religious Judaism to survive is Zionism. This original claim is the novelty of the book, which is now published for the first time in Hebrew.

The periodical B.D.D. acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of new ideas, and the expression of different approaches to the interaction between Torah and general scholarship.

This book includes two essays that document this polemic and shed light on the views of the most important thinkers who discussed the issue.

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

This book seeks to sketch parts of S.Y. Agnon's 'Writing Subject', each of which was born from the scholastic imagination stored in his large library of consciousness.

This volume is dedicated to the late Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch.

This book, the third in Dr. Nezrit's works on the communities of Tafilalet / Sijilmassa, covers all the customs of the area.

Sidra is the only academic journal dedicated to the research of oral tradition literature – including all aspects of rabbinic literature throughout the ages.

The journal serveד as a forum for studies on democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. This interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary publication welcomes studies in the humanities, social sciences, law and Jewish studies.

This volume is based on lectures that were first delivered at the International Conference "Iranian Jews: Identity and Heritage" held at Bar-Ilan University and organized by the Aharon and Rachel Dahan Center for Culture, Society and Education in the Seph

This book contains new readings of Lea Goldberg's works, the result of observation and research in her literary canon from various vantage points.

This collection deals deals with the history of religious Zionism, the philosophy of the religious Zionist movement, and the processes that the movement and the religious Zionist society has undergone, from its foundation in 1902 and up until today.

This book is part of an ongoing effort by Prof. Avi Sagi to create a Jewish philosophy that addresses the challenges of Jewish and Israeli existence in the present.

The periodical B.D.D. acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of new ideas, and the expression of different approaches to the interaction between Torah and general scholarship.

“A Treasury of Fables” is a comprehensive study of the book written by Isaac ibn Sahula in Castile in 1281, which is distinguished by two innovations.

According to Maimonides, there is no difference between Jew and Gentile on a human level. This will be proved based on his Mishneh Torah.

This volume, sixth in a series of studies by Prof. Yehuda Friedlander in modern Hebrew literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deals with the cultural-literary uniqueness of the debate between rabbis and maskilim in Lithuania in the ninetee

This volume is a special issue of Alei Sefer 26-27. The collection of articles deals with various aspects of the design and ways of the Hebrew book.

This book offers a new approach to understanding the thought of one of the most fascinating personalities in Hasidism in particular and in Jewish life and thought in general - Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.

"Davar Tikva" is a collection of studies in the literature of the Middle Ages in the centers of poetry and their branches.

This collection deals with issues of poetry, literature, psychology, philosophy and art.

This book illuminates one of the most important works in the Kabbalah of the Middle Ages, "Tiqqunei ha-Zohar".

This book deals with a variety of issues related to religion, culture and sociology of the Jewish world in relation to fragrances, perfumes and incense.

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

This anthology of Hebrew poetry readings takes us on a journey between periods, poets and voices in Hebrew poetry throughout the ages.

Habad literature contains thousands of titles. This book offers a tool that will help readers to become active readers of Habad literature.

This volume is dedicated to Daniel Sperber, the world-renowned, Israel Prize-winning Jewish studies scholar, rabbinic authority, and mentor to many in Bar-Ilan University and beyond. It illustrates some of his frequently trodden and diverse paths.

Contains the Aramaic vocabulary of the Jewish literary and epigraphic sources of Eretz Israel from the third century C.E. until the Arab Conquest, including Palestinian Talmud, Midrashim, Targumim and synagogue inscriptions.

This is the first book in Hebrew that deals with philosophy and aesthetics of design through discussion and dialogue with major contemporary aesthetic authors.

In this book, Leon Wiener Dow shows that Franz Rosenzweig’s thought contains sufficient foundations on which to construct an approach to halakha.

This book deals with fundamental questions of Ibn Ezra’s methodology, polemical pressures and the quest for truth, criticism and conservatism, his attitude to history and science, and the history of supercommentaries to his interpretation.

This is a compilation of studies on the Mishna in Tractate Horayot.

Sidra is the only academic journal dedicated to the research of oral tradition literature – including all aspects of rabbinic literature throughout the ages.

This book contains Comtiyano's commentary on the Guide of the Perplexed, from a manuscript that exists in the Cambridge Library .

The periodical B.D.D. acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of new ideas, and the expression of different approaches to the interaction between Torah and general scholarship.

This collection contains a variety of studies in Jewish philosophy, dedicated in honor of Professor Aviezer Ravitzky.

This book deals with the legal regulation of property relations between spouses.

This volume explores the KKL and its impact on the geographic and cultural / symbolic space of the land of Israel, and the historical geography of the Lower Galilee from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

Sidra is the only academic journal dedicated to the research of oral tradition literature – including all aspects of rabbinic literature throughout the ages.

What is special about this particular commentary is its use of accumulated knowledge and its integration of a research method with a traditional approach to the text.

This book includes descriptions of 49 fragments from Ottoman Sages on matters of halakha and Talmudic exegesis. These responsa offer fertile ground for research in the interpretation of Jewish Law as well as the wider social, cultural and legal history of

This book includes descriptions of 49 fragments from Ottoman Sages on matters of halakha and Talmudic exegesis. These responsa offer fertile ground for research in the interpretation of Jewish Law as well as the wider social, cultural and legal history of

This book includes descriptions of 49 fragments from Ottoman Sages on matters of halakha and Talmudic exegesis. These responsa offer fertile ground for research in the interpretation of Jewish Law as well as the wider social, cultural and legal history of

This collection explores different aspects in the writings of R. Yehuda Halevi using various methods to decipher the work of this great poet and thinker.

This book explores rural Jewish settlement in Cyprus from the years 1883 until 1939, accompanied by photos, maps and archival sources.

The twenty-four chapters in this bilingual volume examine a wide range of fascinating topics, including Syria's status in Jewish law, changes in the political status of the Jews, the history of Jews in Syria, literature and culture, architecture, synagogu

Addenda to the first edition of The Jewish Life Cycle.

Destruction and Accounting is the most comprehensive and exhaustive study ever written on one of the most dramatic events in Israel's history, the reparations agreement between Israel and Germany.

This book, the third in the series written by Prof. Dov Schwartz dealing with the thought of Rabbi Soloveitchik, is devoted to an analysis of the Rav's essays on prayer.

This volume is a special issue of Alei Sefer 24-25 in memory of Yehoshua Barzilai.

The second in the series by this author, this book documents the holiday cycle in the Tafilalet / Sijilmassa communities, for the last 150 years.

The book sheds new light on the question of the Constitution and invites readers to think differently about the shaping of Israel as a democratic country

The periodical B.D.D. acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of new ideas, and the expression of different approaches to the interaction between Torah and general scholarship.

This critical annotated edition of the commentary of R. Avraham ben Shelomo on the book of Isaiah also includes an illuminating introduction to the place of Bible exegesis in Yemen and to R. Avraham ben Shelomo’s place within it.

A scrutiny of the law profession in Israel, this book explores its status on the one hand, and its professional and public responsibility on the other hand.

Special Issue on Lithuanian Kabbalah from the Vilna Gaon to Rabbi Kook, co-edited by Raphael Shuchat

This autobiographical manuscript is one of the most prominent documents of the Third Aliya with respect to language used, cultural mindset, sociology of the Third Aliya pioneers and a display of the poet’s personal background information.

The anthology is based on lectures given at an international conference on French Jewry held by the Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University.

This book explores the fundamental ambivalence of the Rabbis toward zealous activism.

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

Literacy and Language is the official publication of Association for Literacy and Language . This series publishes scientific research and theoretical articles, critical reviews and case studies in the fields of language acquisition, reading, writing, an

The journal serveד as a forum for studies on democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. This interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary publication welcomes studies in the humanities, social sciences, law and Jewish studies.

This collection sets out for the reader an approach to Biblical study that recognises how the combination of various disciplines may deepen one’s understanding of scripture.

Sidra is the only academic journal dedicated to the research of oral tradition literature – including all aspects of rabbinic literature throughout the ages.

Semi-Annual edited by the Department of Philosophy, the Jewish Philosophy Unit.

This book examines the portrait of the 'talush' (the rootless character) in Modern Hebrew literature. Since the turn of the 20th century, this figure has been significant and central in Hebrew prose.

The periodical B.D.D. acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of new ideas, and the expression of different approaches to the interaction between Torah and general scholarship.

The book sheds light on educational activities in Galilee moshavot during the Yishuv period, projecting local micro-historic aspects on the wider arena of Hebrew education during its first decades when ideology was stronger than pluralism.

This book gathers and explains all the derashot on the books of Joel and Amos from the entire corpus of rabbinic literature: the Talmud and the Midrashim (about 650 derashot).

In this book, the concept of the miracle is systematically examined from the viewpoint of the philosophy of Halakha.

Semi-Annual edited by the Department of Philosophy, the Jewish Philosophy Unit.

The book deals with a focused but complex question: When is a refusal to sell or rent a residential unit because of cultural identity (religion, race, nationality or ethnicity) legal?

Dealing with the cultural politics of the creation of colonial urban space, this book is a special contribution to the study of the history of European urbanism outside Europe.

This book explores the grotesque and related qualities in poetry (in Hebrew and European languages) from the 11th to the 20th century, in the visual arts and the opera.

This book seeks to interpret the novel “Yaish” by Hayim Hazaz as a poetic, cultural and historiosophical phenomenon.

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

This book contains a collection of articles on various aspects of Jewish life in France.

This collection contains a variety of studies in Jewish philosophy, dedicated in honor of Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, winner of the Israel Prize for Jewish Religious Literature for 2014.

The book is published jointly with Kinneret , Zmora Bitan, Dvir. In the opening chapter of his new book, Prof. Yigal Schwartz suggests a revolutionary basis for the historiography of modern Hebrew literature, based on mental-stylistic criteria.

This book is an English translation of Albeck's important work, which first appeared in Hebrew in 1999, published by Bar-Ilan University Press.

This journal is a forum for the study and discussion of democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. It was founded in order to rise to the challenges presented by the development of democracy in a young Israeli society. This public

This book deals with the identification and description of the interior furniture appearing in the Mishnah (Tables, Chairs, Beds and Cabinets.). This work offers many new identifications compatible with both the textual and archaeological sources. Photogr

The periodical B.D.D. acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of new ideas, and the expression of different approaches to the interaction between Torah and general scholarship.

Democracy in Israel is a young sapling. The depth of its roots and spread of its branches in the local culture are as yet undefined. The adoption of the idea of democracy has been influenced by the history of the Jewish people, a history characterized by

This book follows the original diary of Rabbi Moshe Alpert, Muchtar of the Beit Yisrael neighborhood, in the British Mandate period.

The book develops a theory of sincerity as rhetoric and applies it to the analysis and interpretation of ‘Ir u-melo’a by S.Y. Agnon.

Winner of the Rabbi Moshe Malka Prize for Torah Literature!! This book documents the Tafilalet / Sijilmassa communities, describing their habits and lifestyle, their Jewish thought and religious and poetic creation for the last 150 years.

This compilation deals with religious works written in the span of 1,000 years by sages of Fez and other Moroccan communities about language, religious poetry and literature, interpretation and thought, established halacha and local regulations.

Sidra is the only academic journal dedicated to the research of oral tradition literature – including all aspects of rabbinic literature throughout the ages.

Alei Sefer is the only scientific journal in the study of the Hebrew book from all aspects – the history of the Hebrew book, its emergence and metamorphosis.

Is there 'Jewish Medicine' (science of healing) with unique characteristics, or, perhaps has the medicine of the Jews not been significantly different from common medicine through the ages?

This book explores the thought of Moshe Unna, one of the founders of the Religious Kibbutz movement.

This study explores how religious identity and academic excellence intersect, using Bar-Ilan University and religious universities around the world as models of religious paradigms.

This book takes an innovative approach to psychoanalysis. Instead of following well known and predictable Oedipal themes, it offers to investigate the practice used by psychoanalysts in therapy.

This exceptional new edition of 'Mikra'ot Gedolot' is based on the most accurate manuscript, The Aleppo Codex. Among the innovations and improvements incorporated are: Thousands of flaws of the previous and current editions have been corrected. An appara

This book connects existentialism and romanticism. Its aim is to show that at the heart of Sartre’s philosophy is a cohesive core of romantic ideas that influenced his existentialist thought.

This is the third volume of the Encyclopedia of the Jewish Story, which studies the development of narratives in Jewish literature throughout the ages.

This book offers the first comprehensive research discussion of the meeting of music and Judaism in theology.

Is there really Freedom? By following the philosophical debate on this issue, the book probes the ethical and existential aspirations of opposing theoretical views, and advances an inspiring vision of human freedom firmly embedded within nature.

The book presents a description of Purim celebrations in Tel-Aviv and their development from the end of Ottoman period until their cessation in 1936 and highlights the unique role of the concept of tradition in the creation of the new nation.

Winner of the Rabbi Moshe Malka Prize for Torah Literature!! Shadal is regarded as the first of the modern Jewish commentators. The book sets out his outlook in terms of his exegetical and critical approach and his beliefs lying behind it.

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

This book includes articles on Rashi and his disciples that expand on the study of Rashi – questions of interpretation, thought, law, language, poetry and history associated with the works of Rashi and his disciples.

Semi-Annual edited by the Department of Philosophy, the Jewish Philosophy Unit.

This book explores the “meta-halakhic” concepts of R. Auerbach's rulings, exploring their foundations, and comparing them with other contemporary religious rulings.

The book’s interdisciplinary approach to merchant customs combines a scrutiny of the rabbinic literature, of ancient, medieval and modern legal systems, of lexicons and of other historical sources.

The periodical B.D.D. acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of new ideas, and the expression of different approaches to the interaction between Torah and general scholarship.

Mahbarot Liyehudit is a collection of studies on medieval literature research presented to Professor Judith Dishon in recognition of her many years of work in the field.

This book questions the meaning of moral discourse and of the place of literature and philosophy in the context of the inner moral domain, and aims to expose the therapeutic possibilities found in reading and writing literature and philosophy.

This book contains annotated documents which provide a picture of religious Zionism’s struggle with creating the State of Israel and saving Jews from Nazi persecution from the years 1939 to 1945.

Israel’s military-security dimension and its foreign policy-diplomatic counterpart are explored. The periods covered range from the 1920s until contemporary times.

In the modern state, including Israel, participation of citizens in governmental decisions has been diluted considerably. Many important decisions are not made by elected representatives, but by an array of government officers, who are sometimes called ''

This book updates prosodic theory and integrates it within recent developments in literary criticism.

This collection presents central issues in the history and doctrine of religious Zionism.

The “optional cinema model” that is revealed in this book allows the author to present a unique interpretative-philosophical view of the films discussed in the book.

This interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary journal serves as a forum for studies on democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. It welcomes studies in the humanities, social sciences, law and Jewish studies.

The subject of this book is the analysis of the meaning of halakhic loyalty. Is religious loyalty exclusive? Is it up to the faithful to be obedient or to shape the world as sovereigns who should not give up their autonomy?

Semi-Annual edited by the Department of Philosophy, the Jewish Philosophy Unit.

Rav Kook has, until recently, been recognized primarily as an original thinker and an intelligent philosopher of wide intellectual scope. However, alongside his broad horizons, Rav Kook was also an extraordinary religious personality, marked by a rich, sp

Literacy and Language is the official publication of Association for Literacy and Language . This series publishes scientific research and theoretical articles, critical reviews and case studies in the fields of language acquisition, reading, writing, an

This journal is a forum for the study and discussion of democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. It was founded in order to rise to the challenges presented by the development of democracy in a young Israeli society. This public

This book presents telegrams sent to London by High Commissioner General Sir Alan Cunningham about the activities of the Jewish and Arab military organizations in Palestine from early 1947 to mid-May 1948.

This collection of articles joins the fruitful research developed in recent years about the Hebrew song. The sixteen articles included have been written by prominent researchers in various research fields: the field of cultural studies and history of Isra

This book traces the story of finding and deciphering an unknown manuscript of a Hebrew novel, and includes a re-evaluation of David Fogel’s works in light of its discovery, as well as a scientific edition of the novel.

What is special about this particular commentary is its use of accumulated knowledge and its integration of a research method with a traditional approach to the text.

This exceptional new edition of 'Mikra'ot Gedolot' is based on the most accurate manuscript The Aleppo Codex. Among the innovations and improvements incorporated are: Thousands of flaws of the previous and current editions have been corrected. An apparat

This book deals with the Hebrew liturgical poems from Spain known as “personal reshut”. Among students of Medieval Hebrew poetry these poems are considered to possess outstanding artistic merit and to stand at the apex of Spanish Jewish piyyut. In my stud

This volume includes studies that tackle ways in which Jews experience and conceive music both as individuals and as communities living in diaspora conditions.

This collection of articles, the first of its kind, presents the twelve-step program as a professional therapy implemented successfully by practitioners in a variety of settings.

This study adds lexical entries to Krauss’ work, analyzes morphological changes in loaning between languages, examines dialectical characteristics and patterns of corruption, and explains many misunderstood passages in rabbinic literature.

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

Hebrew Linguistics publishes scientific articles dealing mainly with the study of contemporary Hebrew, but also with the Hebrew language through the ages.

The studies assembled in this book discuss some of the fundamentals of Jewish law and its guiding principles. From these principles arise conclusions to other topics, including the special significance of the Ten Commandments, the nature of decision-makin

Sidra is the only academic journal dedicated to the research of oral tradition literature – including all aspects of rabbinic literature throughout the ages.

Alei Sefer is the only scientific journal in the study of the Hebrew book from all aspects – the history of the Hebrew book, its emergence and metamorphosis.

This book examines the concept of inner religion as manifest in Judaism from bibilical times to the early days of Baal Shem Tov Hasidism in the light of religious studies. The book's analysis of the six dimensions of interior religion in diverse Jewish so

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

This collection of articles on the works of Aharon Appelfeld is unique in that each article is devoted to a study of one specific work.

In the book A Question of Time, Joel Pearl proposes a new interpretation of the basis of psychoanalytical thought that reveals the basic deficiency in psychoanalysis since its inception. Pearl returns to the moment of the birth of psychoanalysis and shows

This book demonstrates the central role that the Kabbalah plays in Agnon's literary works from a few different aspects.

Democracy in Israel is a young sapling. The depth of its roots and spread of its branches in the local culture are as yet undefined. The adoption of the idea of democracy has been influenced by the history of the Jewish people, a history characterized by

In this book the author has compiled the halakhic midrashim of the Amoraim in the Palestinian Talmud. The midrashim are arranged in order according to the biblical text, and their wording is determined by existing manuscripts and parallels found in the tw

This volume includes a selection of articles dealing with general questions regarding the redaction and the development of talmudic literature and with specific issues relating to different aspects of the editing and the transmission of certain talmudic w

It is a widespread conception that prayer is the essence of religious fulfillment. In the eyes of many, prayer can be understood only on the assumption that it is an appeal to God. Moreover, even the prayers of non-believers are perceived as a search for

How can we deal with the spread of addiction in modern Israel and its appearance in social groups that were formerly considered immune: educated, economically established families, religious and ultra-religious sectors? How is it possible to assist addict

'Pretense and Reality'' presents a vivid picture of the Mizrahi and its subsidiary movements, in light of the fact that the movement and its members were at an ideological and social crossroads. They had to deal with trends of modernization and acculturat

This journal is a forum for the study and discussion of democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. It was founded in order to rise to the challenges presented by the development of democracy in a young Israeli society. This public

This fifth volume of the series These Are The Names – Studies in Jewish Onomastics, includes a selection of articles that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the study of Jewish names. Scholars who have researched the subject from biblical to modern

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

A collection of essays relating to the following areas of biblical research: biblical narrative, history, and historiography on the background of the Ancient Near Eastern texts and biblical theology.

This book presents Chomsky as a first rate philosopher. Chomsky's linguistic theory is interpreted (in a Dworkian constructivist sense of the term ''interpretation'') as expressing three substantial and grounded philosophical contentions that are also int

The book deals with stories about the Yavneh sages on two subjects: visiting the sick and consoling mourners. Their analysis fully displays their artistic, esthetic and ideological splendor. The stories examine, through human suffering, the theological qu

This collection includes a selection of some of the articles that Prof. Moshe Beer published in his lifetime. His research deals with the history of the Jewish people in the periods of the Second Temple, the Mishnah and the Talmud in Eretz Israel and Baby

Yonatan Ratosh's thousands of lexical innovations are dealt with here from grammatical and semantic viewpoints. A detailed introduction presents theoretical issues concerning lexical innovations, authorship attribution and Ratosh's lexical enterprise. The

The figure of Moses, his leadership and his history, are recorded in the Torah, and he emerges as an impressive personality: lawmaker, prophet, leader and man. Ahad Ha'am remarked that the figure of Moses is a subject for the learned, but not for them

The scientific article is a subject of great importance to the discourse community. The ability to write an excellent scientific article is the key to success for the scientist-scholar. His advancement and status are almost totally dependent on his abilit

This book offers an interpretation of the writings of the Habad Admorim as the reflection of a continuous philosophical tradition, characterized by varied shades and developments. As of now, R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi, R. Shalom Dober Schneerson (the midd

Jacques Lacan is known not only as a revolutionary and significant psychoanalyst, but also as the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. His psychoanalytical theory, founded on the basic Freudian concepts, introduces a new and unique set of ideas a

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

The issue On the Brink: Liminality in Literature and Culture sets out to explore different aspects of geographical, anthropological and cultural border situations, and cross-cultural encounters within and outside of Hebrew literature. The condition of soc

Literacy and Language is the official publication of Association for Literacy and Language . This series publishes scientific research and theoretical articles, critical reviews and case studies in the fields of language acquisition, reading, writing, an

. Shimon Sharvit, Professor Emeritus at Bar-Ilan University and a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, is an outstanding scholars of all aspects of mishnaic Hebrew: pronunciation, morphology, syntax and semantics, vocalization systems and ling

The book includes studies and research on Agnon's work in Germany between the years 1913 to1924, during which time his art earned its classic status. The studies deal also with the influence of the German world and its culture on his entire body of wor

This book sets out to redefine Ur Zvi Grinberg's writings on the background of the cultural framework in which they flourished and to return them to the place from which they were extracted and made timeless. The book reconstructs the beginnings of Grinbe

An annotated critical edition of Mordekhai ben Eliezer Komtiyano's Commentary on R. Abraham Ibn Ezra's Yesod Mora. Komtiyano was one of the leading Jewish philosophers in late medieval Byzantine. His commentary focuses on Ibn Ezra's statements regarding

This book offers a comprehensive reading of Hegel's philosophical project, tracing this project from its moment of conception as a critical reaction to Kant's philosophy, through its first theological formulation, to the discovery of the Idea of Spirit, u

' Kenishta is a series devoted to the scholarly study of synagogue life. Since the destruction of the Second Temple until recent times, the synagogue has been the focus of Jewish life, serving both as a place for Jews to gather for prayer, and also as

The book analyses the theme ''Abraham in the Furnace'' from a historical and contextual perspective by means of more than ninety written Jewish story versions. The personal story of Abraham, as a rebellious individual, merges with the national story of th

This book offers a close feminist reading of contemporary Israeli women's literature based on current theories. The texts, written by Amalia Kahana-Carmon, Hanna Bat-Shahar, Michal Govrin, Ronit Matalon, Dorit Peleg and Rivka Rass, are analysed as texture

This issue is devoted to an interdisciplinary discussion of the relationships between different areas: theories of aesthetics and literary research, the philosophy of language and the ontology of fictional entities, historiography of culture and ethic

This book focuses on A Comedy of Betrothal (Tzahut Bedihuta DeQiddushin), the earliest known Hebrew play. The study of this Renaissance comedy, dated to the mid-16th century, and attributed to Leone de' Sommi (Yehudah Sommo), a multi-talented Jewish theat

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

This book presents the reasons and purposes behind marriage and family law in the Talmud and the controversies regarding them, thereby providing the reader with an organized, systematic summary of the Talmudic laws on these subjects which have no apparent

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of R. Joseph Albo’s philosophical-religious thought. This analysis is based on a careful and meticulous reading of the Book of Principles and emphasizes the stylistic-literary dimension of the text. The ma

Modern Hebrew Literature is engaged overtly and covertly, consciously and unconsciously, with moral issues. Historical upheavals – wars, immigration, the establishment of the independent country, the formation of an old-new culture – have brought about th

investigates the ways in which the literature of the American Renaissance negotiates the ethical, theological, political, and aesthetic implications of the Bible’s entanglement in the mid-nineteenth-century debates over slavery. By examining the intersec

Democracy in Israel is a young sapling. The depth of its roots and spread of its branches in the local culture are as yet undefined. The adoption of the idea of democracy has been influenced by the history of the Jewish people, a history characterized by

Literacy and Language is the official publication of Association for Literacy and Language . This series publishes scientific research and theoretical articles, critical reviews and case studies in the fields of language acquisition, reading, writing, an

A collection of essays relating to the following areas of biblical research: biblical narrative, history, and historiography on the background of the Ancient Near Eastern texts and biblical theology.

The book is an interpretation of the creation, formation and redaction of tractate Ta'anit in the Palestinian Talmud. It explores the voices heard in the text: the quoted amora, the transmitter of the tradition, and the anonymous voice the stamma. It exa

This book is based on the findings of a study on the existence of marketing activities and initiatives in Jewish society in Palestine during the Mishna and Talmud era. It includes a number of subjects relating to economic and marketing activities, such as

This book analyses the attitude of Habad philosophers to Maimonides and their interpretation of Maimonidean doctrines. Maimonides was not viewed by Habad philosophers only as an eminent philosopher and rabbinic sage, but also as one who merited receiving

The book presents a critical annotated edition of Yefet's central work on biblical prophecy, containing an extensive Introduction, the Judaeo-Arabic source text of Yefet's translation and commentary on Hosea.

This book explores models of avodah be-gashmiyut in nascent Hasidism and aims to determine how it provides a response to the tension between the halakhic demand for a certain manner of religious conduct and the immanentistic trends in the Hasidic masters’

The search for the meaning of life is one of man's deep passions. Humans are not content to merely exist. The want to understand their existence, to weave the different events, conditions and affinities of their lives into one complete, comprehensible

This is the second volume of the Encyclopedia of the Jewish Story, which studies the development of narratives in Jewish literature throughout the ages. This volume adds twelve new entries to the nine entries that appeared in the first volume. Among the e

The possibility of the existence of original theology in modern Hebrew literature has not been systematically researched by contemporary scholars. Hebrew literature was considered to be a product of secular modernity, and consequently devoid of independen

From the series Thema - Thematological Studies in the Literature of the Jewish People.

How might one think about narrative painting in the present era, in the wake of modernism and post-modernism? What picture-viewer relations does narrative painting postulate in exceeding two-dimensionality towards the domain of the fictional? How can pain

This journal is a forum for the study and discussion of democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. It was founded in order to rise to the challenges presented by the development of democracy in a young Israeli society. This public

'The Jewish Pope'', the story of Elchanan, the son of R. Shimeon of Mayence, who was kidnapped from his home, grew up as a Christian, became a pope, and finally returned to his father's home and to Judaism, is one of the most famous Jewish folktales. This

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

This book offers a comprehensive study of the authority and status of the king in early rabbinic literature and analyses three conceptions of kingship in biblical literature.

A collection of interdisciplinary studies on the Jews of Tunisia. The 22 articles by foremost scholars from Israel and from abroad encompass a wide variety of fields such as: rabbinic literature, history of Tunisian Jewry throughout the ages, community li

This book surveys ideas about the arrangement of Biblical stories and laws, beginning with the Rabbis’ observation that “There is no ‘earlier or ‘later’ in the Torah” and the midrashic question “Why were these two chapters juxtaposed?,” and moving on t

This study deals with Baruch Kurzweil as a hero of the Hebrew Israeli cultural scene of the 1950s and '60s. Kurzweil's critical corpus known mainly for his work on S.Y. Agnon's fiction is treated here not only as literary criticism, but first and foremo

Texts of secular poetry, stories and piyyutim from the 12th to the 16th centuries are published here for the first time. The collection includes critical editions by leading scholars in the field.

This book is based on translated articles by Hungarian Jewish writers and thinkers as well as interviews with them. The articles express different views on Jewish identity in Hungary. The attitudes articulated in the articles reflect a’variety of position

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

The Vilna Gaon's writings are all commentaries, thus making it difficult to assess his views on the central issues of Judaism. Now, for the first time, one of the more controversial issues in the Gaon's writings has been decoded: his views on the redempti

The volume deals with two main areas: religious customs of Ashkenaz and Jewish leadership in Ashkenaz in medieval and early modern times. The articles on customs examine the history of customs in early Ashkenaz in particular, and the development of variou

Collection of articles dealing with different views on Repentance and Redemption from a philosophic perspective. The collection focuses on the’approach of Jewish philosophers, beginning with the teachings of Rav Yosef Albo and the Maharal of Prague and co

This volume traces the history of Hebrew versification from biblical poetry, through ancient Hebrew liturgy, medieval poetry, poetry of the Haskalah, and finally modern Hebrew poetry. After the biblical period, all systems of versification demanded umeric

This book sets out to understand the phenomenon of the law by using the concept of culture.

This book traces the sources, history and development of a broad variety of customs associated with the Jewish life cycle, from birth to death. It draws upon a vast repertoire of sources, both literary and pictorial, Jewish and non-Jewish, and points to p

This book is a study of the philosophy of R. Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, during the period between 1945 and 1965. The first section analyses R. Soloveitchik's great phenomenological work U'Bikashtem Misham. The second section deals with a number of his artic

In this book Dov Schwartz analyses the writings of R. Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, one of the most influential Jewish philosophers of this generation. Soloveitchik contended with Jewish as well as general philosophical sources and wrote in varied styles. This

This book deals with rabbinic enactments and prohibitions from the Second Temple period, designed to separate Jews from gentiles, from their practices and from their culture, e.g. the prohibitions of eating with a gentile, or partaking of a gentile's brea

Literacy and Language is the official publication of Association for Literacy and Language . This series publishes scientific research and theoretical articles, critical reviews and case studies in the fields of language acquisition, reading, writing, an

This series of essays and articles by experts in almost every field of Eastern Jewish life and thought - Sociology, History, Philosophy, Kabbalah, Responsa and Linguistics - does much to fill some of the lacunae in the anatomy of world Jewish culture.

Co-published with Orot Israel College Press. A collection of articles on biblical exegesis and Jewish Bible commentators through the ages: inner-biblical interpretation, Second Temple exegesis, Targum Onkelos, rabbinic and medieval figures s

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

A study of the phenomenon of cooperation between Jews and Arabs in the municipality of Haifa during the British Mandate. This is a first attempt to present a comprehensive and inclusive research that deals with the local government's influence on the deve

This study presents Merleau-Ponty's theory of the ''field of perception'' as a key concept through which we may reach a more comprehensive understanding of ourselves in the world. This concept can enable us to bypass the subject-object dualism characteris

A selection of articles that encompasses the broad field of Piyyut from post-biblical times until the period of liturgical poetry in medieval Spain. The articles were first delivered as lectures in a conference for the study of Piyyut.

Times of crisis are the making or unmaking of a leadership. The present volume examines this theme in great depth and variety, encompassing a time span from classical Athens to the second half of the 20th century, and moving through Europe, Asia, and the

The papers in this collection are divided into three groups according to the ways in which economic methods are applied. Part I uses the analytical tools of economics to enrich our understanding of’Jewish approaches to various activities and ’to’provide i

An annotated critical edition of Heshek Shelomo, R. Shelomo ben Yehudaof Lunel's commentary on the Kuzari by R. Yehuda Halevi. This commentary was written between the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century and it affords us a rare source of

This book examines the way in which Rabbi Ovadya Yosef deals with the challenges of modern life. His halakhic solutions are characterized by two guiding principles: inclusion and exclusion. Rabbi Yosef strives to encompass a broad public, including people

The educated Jew in the Middle Ages became familiar with classical literature through its Arabic translations. Hundreds of motifs were borrowed from these sources and implanted in Hebrew literature, especially in Spanish poetry. The author has collected t

This book examines the foundations of Jewish Criminal Law. Part 1 deals with the structure of Jewish Criminal Law. Part 2 analyses those defenses to criminal liability that are fundamental to all systems, ignorance or mistake of law, self-defense, duress

Leibniz's theory of the monads is imprinted on Western cultural consciousness as the explicit representative of late 17th-century Baroque philosophy and rationalistic thought. This book sets out to demonstrate a monadic paradigm underlying scientific thou

Fifty years after the appearance of Rechovot Ha-Nahar, Uri Zvi Greenberg's great opus on the destruction of the Jewish community in the Holocaust, this present volume serves to revive the critical discussion of this work, regarded as one of the great summ

This book presents updated information on deception and the methods developed to uncover lies. The author describes a wide range of lies, the verbal and nonverbal cues to deception and the perceived cues, which often mislead lie-catchers. Other is

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

These articles were written by a wide range of scholars in the fields of Jewish Law and the history of Halakhah, and deal with a variety of aspects of the judicial process in Jewish Law throughout different periods. Based on lectures delivered at a confer

Translated from English and co-published with Yediot Aharonot Press, this book explores Einstein's philosophy of religion.

Collection of articles by distinguished scholars, among them friends and students of Prof. Mirsky. Besides the central subject, which is the poetry and liturgy of different communities, periods and styles, included also are studies on biblical exegesis an

' Kenishta is a series devoted to the scholarly study of synagogue life. Since the destruction of the Second Temple until recent times, the synagogue has been the focus of Jewish life, serving both as a place for Jews to gather for prayer, and also as

This book compiles over thirty years of study, during which the author has articulated and developed the concept of ''philosophic mysticism'', that is, the type of mysticism that grows out of rigorous philosophical reflection but clearly alludes to a myst

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

Scroll of Secrets (Megillat Setarim) is the hidden Messianic vision of R. Nahman of Bratslav. The Scroll was concealed for two centuries, and was known only to a select individual in each generation. Despite its being written in encoded language, with acr

This book deals with legal and social aspects of Ancient Near Eastern cultures, including biblical Eretz Israel. The author's approach is multidisciplinary and humanistic, focusing on texts as a key to understanding the lives of the people who lived in th

This is the first academic book in Hebrew on International Trade Law. The book features articles written by Israeli scholars discussing one the most important bodies in the international economy the World Trade Organization and the many trade agreements

This book focuses on new processes and developing trends in the field of insurance law. It deals with central insurance law disputes and provides the reader with guidelines for evaluating complex insurance issues. Faculty of Law Publication.

The co-operative work of leading Bar-Ilan scholars in the faculties of Jewish Studies and Arts, covers a wide range of subjects in Halakhah, Jewish History and Jewish Literature, Language and Philosophy, and other aspects of modern Jewish life.

The Land of Israel in the 16th century had a distinct influence on the Jewish Diaspora due to the Spanish exiles who settled in Safed. Their teachings became the universal Jewish heritage in many fields, by virtue of their learnedness as well as the f

The present volume deals mainly with the connections between Islam and Judaism in the spheres of philosophy and mysticism. It includes also articles on various subjects: ablution in Islamic Law, the appearance of Muhammad in Rasail Ikhwan al-Safa, a comme

Bar-Ilan University is a unique phenomenon in the academic scene in Israel and abroad. The university was established by the religious Zionist movement as a ''religious'' institution. The sections of this work shed light on the nature of Bar-Ilan Universi

Bar-Ilan University is a unique phenomenon in the academic scene in Israel and abroad. The university was established by the religious Zionist movement as a ''religious'' institution. The sections of this work shed light on the nature of Bar-Ilan Universi

An annotated bibliography of the hasidic story, compiled by Yoav Elstein, reveals unknown sources in Hebrew and in Yiddish, shedding new light on this field of research.

This book presents a new interpretation of the major essays of the German Jewish philosopher, Walter Benjamin, by emphasizing the underlying visual elements in his writings. The visual aspect, and particularly photography, interfere with one's understandi

A collection of studies on the Jewish story encompassing the post-biblical period, medieval literature, mussar literature, Kabbalah, Hasidism, and modern Hebrew literature. Among the contributors are: Moshe Idel, Ofra Meir, Avigdor Shinan, Avraham Grosma

Conversion (giyyur), the way in which a gentile converts to the Jewish faith, has profound legal significance. This book is a comprehensive halakhic and legal research of conversion in Jewish law, and aims to reach a full understanding of its essence. The

This book traces the thought of the German philosopher Karl Jaspers, from his early writings as a young psychiatrist to his mature thinking as an existentialist.

In this volume the Septuagint is translated from Greek to Hebrew. The Greek version serves as the oldest textual testimony and exegesis. The book includes a suggested reconstruction of the original Hebrew text with emphasis on the differences between the

This is the first modern Hebrew dictionary to the Hebrew Bible. A previous edition published 20 years ago comprised 3 volumes (alef-tet).

This volume discusses various aspects of everyday life in rabbinic Palestine. It examines the Jewish literary evidence from textual, philological and legal viewpoints, correlating the results with contemporary archaeological evidence, and making constant

This book sets out to clarify the text of the Jerusalem Tractate Ma'asrot in its historical context. It includes a commentary to the Mishna and the Talmud. The texts are based on the Leiden MS, with variant readings, portions from the Genizah and The Vene

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

Study of medieval Jewish Messianism, analysing the two main messianic approaches, Apocalypticism and Naturalism. The author traces the tension between these two schools of thought through different periods of history and concludes that, at the time of the

In this volume, the biblical exegetic methodology of Rashbam is described against the historical background of his time. The exegesis of Rashbam is outlined as a whole, with special emphasis on two essential principles that guide his interpretative approa

A collection of articles focusing on different aspects of modern Jewish history. Common to all these studies is the conflict between tradition and innovation in modern Jewish society, as reflected in Jewish communities in the Diaspora, the Jewish Yishuv i

One hundred and seven documents from the British Foreign Office, the Colonial Office and the National Archives of the United States, published here for the first time, deal with various aspects of women's life in Morocco. Some women played an active role

A collection of essays relating to the following areas of biblical research: The Masoretic text, biblical Hebrew, rabbinical and medieval Jew- ish exegesis and biblical miscellany.

This is the first detailed study of the religious units that formed an integral part of the Hagana. It describes the needs that prompted the religious Zionist leaders to establish these units, and the difficulties encountered in their formation. In additi

Did the Oriental Jewish woman have a history of her own? What was her image in male consciousness? What is known about her contemporary experiences? These are just a few of the questions addressed by the articles in this volume. Their authors have made us

This volume presents a collection of rabbinic legends about the Book of Job and the man Job. The rabbinic sources include varied opinions regarding Job himself and the basic philosophical problems inherent in this text. This new volume includes material f

A comprehensive survey of seaweeds that grow on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, some of which are documented here for the first time. The first part of the book contains general information about algae and their environment. The second part comprises a

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

The subject of this volume is the tension inherent in Judaism between the sacred and the secular. The sources of this tension are analysed, and its manifestations traced from its origins in the biblical tradition to the modern-day public arena. Based on a

Why do people resist change? How can we overcome this resistance? The author addresses these questions in his detailed discussion of the traditional theories on the subject and in his new explanations and his own original theoretical-integrative model.

This book illuminates halakhic issues as depicted in the struggle between Mitnagdim, Maskilim and Hasidism. It includes literary analyses of selected works of Hatam Sofer, Abraham Lieb Benjaminson, Yehuda Leib Gordon, Shmuel Joseph Agnon and Haim Hazaz.

The book is based on the essays of the Muslim Jerusalem physician, Ab'u Abdallah Muhamad ibn Sa'id al-Tamimi, who lived in the second half of the 10th century. The information given by al-Tamimi is not restricted solely to medical matters but is also of g

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

In this book the author has compiled the halakhic midrashim of the Amoraim in the Palestinian Talmud. The midrashim are arranged in order according to the biblical text, and their wording is determined by existing manuscripts and parallels found in the tw

The ''Historical Prologue'', an important, integral part of subordination treaties of the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium B.C.E., has been known until now mainly from Hittite treaties. Its function in these treaties was to display the justificatio

An annotated critical edition of R. Israel Najara's book of sermons, Mikve Yisrael…, from original manuscripts, with a comprehensive introduction. The book contains 40 sermons delivered on various occasions. R. Israel Najara, who lived in the 16th century

Prize for Jewish Philosophy of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 1997-2000 The book sheds new light on Jewish rationalistic thought of the late Middle Ages, particularly in Spain and Proven

The first book in the series Thema, 'A Series of Thematological Studies in the Literature of the Jewish People'. The first section contains a general overview of the research methodology employed, and specific thematological studies that trace the develop

By way of an honest and riveting account of certain periods in his own life, the author reflects on the meaning of Jewish existence today, and on some of the outstanding problems that are still with us after the end of the 20th century.

The book explores subjects involving magic, astrology and related areas, in medieval Jewish thought, and illustrates the way in which these fields of study formulated a distinct theology, contributing to Jewish cultural development.

This book presents a new approach to teaching history in schools, centering on a critical understanding of the nature of historical knowledge and its growth, thus contributing to the development of students' national, autonomous and critical minds.

Historical accounts and oral traditions of the eating of locusts among Jewish communities throughout the diaspora. Extensive attention is paid to the geo-cultural aspect and its influence on eating practices and rabbinical halakhic rulings among the commu

This textbook is composed of a teacher's and a student's manual and is designed for secondary school students of biology and agriculture. The Student's Book encompasses theory and practice and develops the student's research skills through mini-researches

This pioneering study paves the way for new research in the subject of nature preservation in Israel. The book is based mainly on records from government archives, only recently made available.

Texts of secular poetry, stories and piyyutim from the 12th to the 16th centuries are published here for the first time. The collection includes critical editions by leading scholars in the field.

A collection of papers on the subject of Jewish names by internationally-known scholars, researching Jewish names in various communities from biblical to modern times. In Honor of Edwin D. Lawson

This work reveals the sources of modern Hebrew literature in Oriental Hebrew poetry, liturgy and Midrash and examines their influence on modern writing. The creative writer is presented both as an individual and as a member of a specific community.

The book provides a model for the processing of information in the mind. It includes chapters on the brain, sensory recording, attention, memory, acts of thought and metacognitive decision making. Ways of supervising and improving the act of proce

This book traces the development of the debate between moderns (Aharonim) and ancients (Rishonim) in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish thought, from Sa'adia Gaon to Spinoza. It concentrates on the evolution of the moderns' response to the authority of t

In this volume, legal experts present studies of the world of law in Israel today, while making a unique attempt to predict future developments as part of a natural process of change. The questions "what is desirable'' and "how it can be achieved'' are ad

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

These studies, encompassing 100 years of religious Zionism, are compiled under three main research categories, and form the first comprehensive academic study on religious Zionism. Vol. II: Historical Aspects Historical discussions of movements, ev

These studies, encompassing 100 years of religious Zionism, are compiled under three main research categories, and form the first comprehensive academic study on religious Zionism. Vol. I: Figures and Thought Essays on philosophers and rabbinic lead

These studies, encompassing 100 years of religious Zionism, are compiled under three main research categories, and form the first comprehensive academic study on religious Zionism. Vol. III: Philosophical Aspects Philosophical discussions of the es

All rabbinic comments which deal with verses from the Book of Hosea have been collected from the entire corpus of midrashic and halakhic literature. Each comment is cited and explained, giving particular attention to its function as biblical exegesis.

This series of essays and articles by experts in almost every field of Eastern Jewish life and thought - Sociology, History, Philosophy, Kabbalah, Responsa and Linguistics - does much to fill some of the lacunae in the anatomy of world Jewish culture.

'On Duties'' (De Officiis), Cicero's last philosophical work, has been the most popular of his philosophical writings from antiquity to the present day. It deals with situations in everyday life in which the individual has to make important, and sometimes

Judean Aramaic is the Aramaic dialect of the documents that were composed in Judea between c. 150 B.C.E.- 200 C.E. The texts in this dialect come from various sites in the Dead Sea region, the vicinity of Jerusalem, and from Tannaitic sources (Mishna, Tos

Translated from the Hebrew: "Jewish Settlement in the Hebron Mountains and the Etzion Bloc".

The book deals with the halakhic and exegetical meanings underlying the halakhic Midrashim and shows how they enhance the understanding of the plain meaning of the Mishna. It also traces the development of halakhic concepts and their changes in Amoraic Li

A collection of essays on the Vilna Gaon and his School based on lectures delivered at two conferences that were held at Bar-Ilan University on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of his death. The subjects of the volume are: Halakhah and

This is the original Hebrew edition of the title Conversion: Halakhah and Practice (for details see entry for this title).

This textbook is composed of a teacher's and a student's manual and is designed for secondary school students of biology and agriculture. The Student's Book encompasses theory and practice and develops the student's research skills through mini-researches

A collection of essays depicting the figure of Abraham as reflected in texts from biblical to contemporary times, including Midrash, ancient and medieval philosophy, Kabbalah, as well as Christian and Islamic conceptions of Abraham as the father of th

These articles deal with some of the central issues in criminology from a broad perspective of diverse scientific disciplines, and attempt to propose solutions for the prevention of crime. Among the subjects examined are: organized crime, communit

Kenishta is a series devoted to the scholarly study of synagogue life. Since the destruction of the Second Temple until recent times, the synagogue has been the focus of Jewish life, serving both as a place for Jews to gather for prayer, and also as the c

Myths, folktales and Hebrew literature have been thoroughly researched in order to present the thesis that the duality in the nature of woman is not only inherent in human culture, but has had a dangerous influence on the whole concept of family life.

The third volume in the series of R. Judah ibn Bal'am's commentaries (second half of the 11th century in Spain), contains the commentary on Jeremiah. This unique vestige of the medieval Spanish scholar's oeuvres, based on manuscripts from the Firkowitch

A collection of papers on the subject of Jewish names by internationally-known scholars, researching Jewish names in various communities from biblical to modern times.

The book deals with the influence of the Kabbalah on the Halakhah, liturgy and ritual customs, and the reaction of the rabbinic authorities to this phenomenon. The book also investigates the extent to which the kabbalistic instructions were accepted b

The book discusses the problem of esoteric teaching in medieval rationalism. It interprets medieval Jewish philosophy in the light of intentional contradictions found in books written by medieval philosophers.

Essays on biblical literature, exegesis, historiography and manuscript research, modern biblical scholarship from the Jewish point of view

A collection of 10 articles on a wide range of subjects especially concerning the Iberian diaspora, by distinguished scholars from Israel, Europe and the United States. A major contribution to the study of Jewish society and economy, and of the histor

The author devotes 22 chapters to detailed synoptic comparisons between parallel passages in the Mishna and the Tosefta, and discusses the history of the laws of the Passover Seder. With an introduction on the relationship between the Tosefta and the Mish

A selection of articles that encompasses the broad field of Piyyut from post-biblical times until the period of liturgical poetry in medieval Spain. The articles were first delivered as lectures in a conference for the study of Piyyut.

A psychological examination of ancient myths and archetypes reflecting a parapatriarchal culture, out of which evolved the ancient epic hero, Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh's journey serves as a model for analysis of his world, and a key to understanding the capaci

Levi ben Gershon, Ralbag or Gersonides (Provence, 1288-1344), philosopher, exegete and halakhist, as well as astronomer and mathe-matician is one of medieval Judaism's most interesting figures. This volume presents a critical edition of Gersonides' commen

A study of five classic problems in Jewish Education based on the analysis of literary sources - from Bible and Talmud through works of the Middle Ages and the modern times to the pedagogical writings of our period.

The David Yallin Jerusalem Prize for Education and Hokhmat Yisrael, 1985 A model analysis of Maimonidean legal thought and method, including, among other topics, attitudes towards the state and its purpose, sources of political authority, etc. Discusse

The book encompasses the field of music therapy from three points of view: practice, theory and research. It focuses on music psychotherapy and enlarges on the professional dilemmas related to diagnostic and treatment approaches, theoretical models and re

It is widely recognized that poetical and theological texts are by nature paradoxical. This book is a first attempt to explore the Hebrew Bible and the rabbinic literature from this point of view. It includes a discussion of the typical antinomies charact

A study of the political centers of Zionism and the ''Mizrahi'' movement in Imperial Germany and of the struggle of religious Zionism against non-Zionistic Orthodoxy on the one hand and non-religious Zionism on the other. This struggle promoted the

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

Collection of old and new articles on what is considered to be Bialik's most poetic and aesthetic essay. Co-published with Israel Matz Hebrew Classics and I. Edward Kiev Library Foundation.

The co-operative work of leading Bar-Ilan scholars in the faculties of Jewish Studies and Arts, covers a wide range of subjects in Halakhah, Jewish History and Jewish Literature, Language and Philosophy, and other aspects of modern Jewish life.

The book examines a neglected literary genre of ’the Haskalah period. The different chapters offer new readings of the biblical stories in previously unknown plays and assess their poetic and dramatic value together with’their relevance for the contempora

An Amora named Ravina is known to have been active, together with Rav Ashi, as one of the outstanding scholars of the late Babylonian Talmudic period. Some even attribute the redaction of the Talmud to them. Yet modern scholarship, like the classic commen

A literary reading of seven stories about prophets from Samuel to Elisha combining three disciplines: close reading, form criticism and structural analysis. An appendix deals with the role of minor characters in the biblical narrative. Co-published wi

Kenishta is a series devoted to the scholarly study of synagogue life. Since the destruction of the Second Temple until recent times, the synagogue has been the focus of Jewish life, serving both as a place for Jews to gather for prayer, and also as the c

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

This second volume contains a commentary on Ezekiel based on the manuscript from the Firkowitch collection in St. Petersburg, with the original Arabic, Hebrew translation and notes. From the series ''Sources and Studies'', the Institute for the His

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

Collected writings of Prof. Yehuda Elitzur (1911-1997) including approximately 60 revised studies which demonstrate his unique approach to Bible research, combining strict research methods with a deep faith. His studies, dealing mainly with the narrative

Discussion of the basic questions in Jewish education today such as defining the ideal, religious education and moral education and the relationship between the two, teaching tolerance, combining the holy and the profane, etc. Combines academic study

Contains more than 20 articles by the foremost scholars who have investigated the various aspects of Uri Zvi Greenberg's poetry.

The author has compiled the halakhic midrashim of the Tannaim in the Palestinian Talmud, determining the texts' wording according to existing manuscripts and parallels found in the two Talmudim and the midrashim, and according to versions known to the

Collection of articles by renowned scholars in Israel and abroad, dealing with social, economic and intellectual history, Bible exegesis and translation, philosophy and polemics, literature and linguistics. Based on lectures delivered at the Sixth Interna

Essays on biblical literature, exegesis, historiography and manuscript research, modern biblical scholarship from the Jewish point of view

A selection of articles that encompasses the broad field of Piyyut from post-biblical times until the period of liturgical poetry in medieval Spain. The articles were first delivered as lectures in a conference for the study of Piyyut.

This is the second volume of the author's iconotextual trilogy. Co-published with Harrassowitz Verlag.

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

Texts of secular poetry, stories and piyyutim from the 12th to the 16th centuries are published here for the first time. The collection includes critical editions by leading scholars in the field. Co-published with Israel Matz Hebrew Classics and I. Edwa

A collection of papers on the subject of Jewish names by internationally-known scholars, researching Jewish names in various communities from biblical to modern times.

The Ben-Zvi Prize for Oriental Jewish Communities, 1999 A comprehensive volume, the first of its kind, which traces the history of the Torah-Case from its beginnings. The book delves into the art of creating the Torah-Case in Yemen and India, B

Translated from the Hebrew "The Religious Kibbutz during the Mandate Period". Co-published with Magnes Press, The Hebrew University.

Explanation and analysis of the principles of the talmudic legal system which appear in the Talmud in a casuistic and incomplete manner. Reveals the inner logic and order underlying Talmudic discussions of the laws governing human social behavior.

A new study on the Jewish law of inheritance and wills. The book treats the development of wills and their various formularies, from the period of the Bible and Talmud until the present, with a critical edition of 70 documents from the Cairo Geniza.

The writings of Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1167) include biblical exegesis and theological treatises as well as a scientific corpus written for the first time in Hebrew, which can be regarded as ''the beginning of Hebrew Science''. In this book the author

Thirty-two articles by prominent Israeli scholars examine different aspects of the Hebrew language from ancient to modern times.

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

A collection of studies on Jewish law and Halakhah dealing with essential aspects of the law regarding subjects such as debt obligation of inheritance, death penalty for Noahides, laws of matrimony, and with halakhic issues from an historical and philosop

Victor Chajes was an assimilated Polish Jew who served both as assistant mayor of the city of Lwow and president of its Jewish community. Between the years 1926 and 1939, when Lwow was captured by the Russians, he kept a diary,’describing his relations wi

A collection of articles on theoretical and methodological problems, Israeli popular music, and others. Based on proceedings of the George Herzog International Forum for Socio-Musical Sciences.

A unique book, which focuses on the Sephardic Romance. Originating in medieval Spanish literature, the Romance is a well-known genre in Sephardic literature and became one of the most popular genres in Judeo-Spanish literature after the Expulsion from

A critical edition of a large group of cultic love poems concerned with the love and sacred marriage of the divine couple, the gods of love and fertility, Dumuzi (Tammuz) and Inanna (Ishtar), together with introduction, English translation, philological c

The first part of the book deals with international privatization programs, including both the aims and various methods that have been adopted to privatize public enterprises worldwide. The second part addresses the Israeli privatization plans and the rea

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

'Aftergrowth'' - Bialik's lyrical story is con-sidered by many critics to be one of the peaks of modern Hebrew prose writing. Bialik succeeded in unleashing the chains and fetters of the typical style of Mendele and reaching the outer realms of poetic ima

Deals with the Anglican missionaries, most of whom were converts from Judaism, and the methods they used to convert Jews. Their task was facilitated by the poverty that prevailed, particularly in times of drought. The number of converts was small thanks t

The book deals with three areas that are recognized as very significant in the modern era: belief and religious identity, the family and the status of women, population and community organization. Includes studies by experts in their fields.

Five case studies of the reaction to political deviance in Israel provide the basis for a comparison with the situation in other countries, and the development of a new model of the rhetorical strategies used in the process of delegitimation.

The Jewish Badchan has many faces: from that of the clown (leiz), who wandered from place to place during the Middle Ages together with non-Jewish performers, to that of the wedding preacher (muserzoger). The author traces the course of the badchan from i

In this study of the Hasidic story, the author presents his conception of the element of ecstasy as a predominant characteristic of this genre.

A comprehensive review of the climate of Israel. The first part analyses the spatial and temporal distribution of the atmospheric parameters in Israel. The second part deals with the application of these elements in various fields of forecasting, plan

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

A systematic explanation of the basic principles of talmudic criminal law and the theory according to which transgressors and transgressions of the law are judged. Purpose and intention, compulsion and mistake, inadvertence and recklessness, negligence an

Collected studies on nature and agriculture, archaeology, history, geography and religious life in the Land of Israel. Numerous plates and maps.

A collection of papers on the subject of Jewish names by internationally-known scholars, researching Jewish names in various communities from biblical to modern times. These articles are based on lectures given at the first international conference on

In this work, written in 45 B.C.E in the form of three dialogues, Cicero explains and discusses the views of the three major philosophical schools of his age - the Epicureans, the Stoics, and the Peripatetics - on the issue of the highest good, or the

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research. A significant body of such people exists nowadays, wi

Essays on biblical literature, exegesis, historiography and manuscript research, modern biblical scholarship from the Jewish point of view

This volume analyses the difficulties teachers encounter when confronting striking diversity in characteristics of students in the heterogeneous class. Pedagogical and organizational issues are explored to overcome these difficulties. From the ser

When quoting the ''Original Mishna'', the later Tanna'im attempted to conserve the original text, but also developed methods to edit it and accommodate it to their legal conceptions. This methodology is exemplified here, in the original laws of Bailees,

The book contains several Piyyutei Halakhah from the Festival Liturgy. The selection represents the Halakhot of different Jewish communities and their characteristic rituals.

An international group of distinguished psychologists, sociologists and educators presents original theoretical and applied chapters that enable enhanced understanding of hetero-geneous schools and provide ways of improving education for all children in t

This collection of articles written by scholars involved in research and in teaching unfolds a variety of methods suitable for use in the teaching of portions of the Torah and the Prophets in secondary schools.

Co-published with Harrassowitz Verlag.

In the ''Shemesh'' sonnets, known as the ''Sun of Hebrew Literature'', Tchernihovsky uses this complex classical genre for the first time in Hebrew poetry, creating a work that sums up his total philosophy. Essays present the work of critics and schol

For 30 years King Hussein strove to construct a bridge of peace between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in a tireless effort to achieve two conflicting aims: the establishment of an agreement with Israel and maintenance of Arab solidarity.

R. Yizhak Haseniri was one of the outstanding poets of medieval Provence. This first critical edition of his piyyutim includes a general survey of the historical background and the liturgic customs of the period and an analysis of the piyyutim, encompassi

In the late 1920s, Shoshana Shababo (1910-1982) published her first work. For various reasons this author did not receive recognition, although she was one of the first women writers to live and write in the renewed yishuv of Eretz Israel. Now, f

The book includes articles written by distinguished scholars, examining the relationship between morality and religion, from the point of view of general and Jewish philosophy.

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

The book deals with publicistic writings that contain elements of the essay genre by Mendele, Y.L. Gordon, Shalom Aleichem, Brenner, Bialik, U.Z. Greenberg, Agnon, Alterman and others. The texts are examined from the typological and semantic aspects, and

AWARD-WINNING BOOK!! A geographical-historical study of the religious kibbutz settlement from the time of its establishment until the foundation of the State of Israel. Co-published with Magnes Press, The Hebrew University.

A selection of articles that encompasses the broad field of Piyyut from post-biblical times until the period of liturgical poetry in medieval Spain. The articles were first delivered as lectures in a conference for the study of Piyyut.

A collection of articles written by renowned classical scholars in Israel and abroad, many of which address matters having to do with the Jews or the Land of Israel of the classical period.

The Ze'ev Jabotinsky Prize for Literature and Research, 1997 Examines the history of the deportation from Palestine of several hundred members of Irgun Zeva'i Leumi (Etzel) and Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Lehi), and their detention in British camps in E

The periodical B.D.D. aims firstly to serve the needs of Torah-observant Jews, who maintain contact with intellectual developments in secular culture and are interested in modern thinking and research.

The co-operative work of leading Bar-Ilan scholars in the faculties of Jewish Studies and Arts, covers a wide range of subjects in Halakhah, Jewish History and Jewish Literature, Language and Philosophy, and other aspects of modern Jewish life.

As the debate over the readmission of the Jews to England reached its climax in 1655-1656, Prynne, distinguished already both as lawyer and publicist, proved himself to be the most formidable of all the antagonists of the Jews. Various aspects of his Shor

This series of essays and articles by experts in almost every field of Eastern Jewish life and thought - Sociology, History, Philosophy, Kabbalah, Responsa and Linguistics - does much to fill some of the lacunae in the anatomy of world Jewish culture.

Andrew Sharf, who died in 1990, is acknowledged as an outstanding authority on Byzantine-Jewish and Armenian history. The present volume contains 18 of his papers, classics in their field.

Contains essays in medieval biblical exegesis, Jewish-Christian relations and ecclesiastical history.

Taken from a manuscript that reached Turkey after the Expulsion from Spain, the sermons focused on death and the eternity of the soul and were delivered on occasions such as weddings, circumcisions, festivals and funerals.

An analysis of the principles and an explanation of the reasons behind talmudic private law, such as the status of gentile aliens and slaves, law of contract, agency, inheritance and wills, law and ethics and similar topics.

This volume is composed of articles representing the latest research on the works of Agnon by some of the most outstanding scholars in Israel and the world. In these original and fascinating studies we find models for annotated critical editions, studies

A study of the geo-historical distribution of all the loan types as well as of the individual clauses used in the Old Babylonian loan con-tract (c. 1900-1600 B.C.E). It is shown that loan types as well as individual formulas have a limited geographical an

A critical edition of Kinath Haemeth by Y.L.’Myzes and Mishnath Elisha ben Abuya by M.L. Lilienblum. The role of the Rambam and Elisha ben Abuya as archetypes in Hebrew satire is demonstrated.

A collection of articles on processes in the fields of economic, social and political geography, which affected the development of Israeli-Arab settlements in the past decades. It is the first book dealing with the totality of the subject from the geograp

An examination of the contribution of Zionist private enterprise to Jewish rural and urban settlement of Palestine from the turn of the century to the outbreak of the First World War. Co-published with Magnes Press, The Hebrew University.

Selected chapters from the field of post-biblical Hebrew linguistics and lexicography, with particular attention to the language of the Responsa against the background of the biblical text.

Miriam and Nehemia Aminoah Prize of the Histradrut Hapoel Hamizrahi, 1997 A collection of documents written in Lucena, southern Spain, at the beginning of the 11th century C.E., from Cairo Geniza fragments in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Examination

Points of contact between rabbinic Judaism and Hellenistic Roman culture are examined. Greco-Roman Hellenistic motifs are discovered in rabbinic sources while authentically Hebrew-rabbinic magical formulae are shown to be present in Greek papyrological ma

A new approach to introducing the verb in the dictionary while presenting its syntactic and semantic environments. Numerous entries are illustrated by English and German equivalents.

A selection of articles presented to Emanuel Rackman, including essays on his personality and his contribution to the Jewish and academic communities. The articles reflect Prof. Rackman's main fields of interest: Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Law and Halakhah

A collection of fully annotated documents. Includes general introduction and foreword for each document.

The book includes: (1) a description of the Jewish community in Lisbon and its leader, Rabbi Joseph Hayyun in the 15th century, (2)’an analysis of selections from Hayyun's writings - commentaries and introductions to biblical texts’- published here for th

Examining issues concerning Bible teaching today, the author discusses the respective contributions of traditional exegesis and of modern scholarly research to a meaningful study of the Bible.

A study of all the works of A.B. Yehoshua, encompassing his short stories, plays and novels, from his early writings to his novel, Mr. Mane. The book examines Yehoshua's sources, drawn from the Bible and Midrashim, mythology, folklore and modern literatur

This volume discusses various aspects of everyday life in rabbinic Palestine. It examines the Jewish literary evidence from textual, philological and legal viewpoints, correlating the results with contemporary archaeological evidence, and making constant

Ibn el Arabi (1076-1148), a Muslim religious scholar from Seville, recorded his impressions of Eretz Israel in numerous essays, a selection of which is presented in this volume. His writings comprise an original and fascinating record of the cultural and

A collection of 13 essays on one of Agnon's greatest works, written by scholars representing different schools of thought in Hebrew literary criticism over the past 80 years. Co-published with Israel Matz Hebrew Classics and I. Edward Kiev Library Foun

The Zalman Shazar Prize in the Study of the History of the Jewish People, 1993 The book offers, for the first time in Jewish research, answers to the questions: What was being read and by whom? What was the circulation of more than a thousand works? Ho

Essays on biblical literature, exegesis, historiography and manuscript research, modern biblical scholarship from the Jewish point of view

Shirat Miqra argues on the basis of solid biblical and literary scholarship that biblical poetics is marked by an unusual tension between the aesthetic and non-aesthetic modes of discourse: it is "Poetry with a Purpose''. The author applies this thesis to

This book is a history of the Civil Administration of Palestine under the British Mandate. It focuses on the structure and the policies of the civil administration against the background of the rapid economic and social change generated by the Jewish Nati

The Rabbi Yaakov Reines Prize for 1994, Yad Harav Maimon The book, which includes a documentary section, discusses the daring underground activities of Bnei Akiba in Hungary during the Holocaust, such as finding hiding-places, providing false papers, c

A multidisciplinary study investigating the provenance and local trade of the common kitchenware of the Galilee and Golan from the late 1st century B.C.E. through the early 5th century C.E. Archaeological evidence is provided for the first time on local t

The book, Rosh Amana (1494, Italy), by Rabbi Yitzhak Abravanel, the renowned Bible exegete who was exiled from Spain to Italy, deals with the principles of Jewish faith. In his broad analysis, Abravanel relates to his predecessors, particularly Maimonides

The book surveys and examines the formation and development of the laws, concepts and principles that moulded Halakhah through the course of generations. Special attention is given to the dynamics of change and innovation in Halakhah, to its intimate asso

This first volume opens a series of publications of the commentaries to the Bible by R. Judah ibn Bal'am (second half of the 11th century), the first Rabbanite Bible exegete in the Arabic language on Spanish soil in the Middle Ages. The Arabic commentary

Cicero here expounds on the theological views of the Epicurean, the Stoic, and the Academic schools of philosophy. The treatise is cast in the form of a dialogue, supposed to have taken place in 77 or 76 B.C.E. Translated from the Latin by Aviva Katzi

The Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Belkin Prize of Yeshiva University, New York, 1995. This study analyses a Pentateuch incunabulum, with handwritten marginal notes from the 16th century, which provides accurate evidence of the text, and the layout of the Sections a

Traces the development of Jewish settlements in Gush Etzion and in the area south of Bethlehem, and analyses the process of settlement at the end of the British Mandate.

Historical survey and statistical analysis of all Israeli public protest events - their characteristics, factors (economic, social, cultural, political system), and success. From the series "Schnitzer Foundation for Studies in Economy and Society i

The book is devoted to prayer of the Holocaust period. It includes special prayers composed in occupied Europe and in the Free World on behalf of Jews under Nazism, and prayers in memory of Holocaust victims that were composed by authors from the differen

Studies in the thought of different philosophers, presented in the form of comparative analyses of pairs of thinkers, such as: Buber and Levinas, Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig, Pascal and R. Yehuda Halevi. This book sets out to establish a ''new-