Diaspora Jewry

New in the Series Community and Heritage

Translation to Hebrew of the English book PRAGUE AND BEYOND

Reminiscences Series

Reminiscences Series

Reminiscences Series

This volume is a collection of historical documents that spans a period of a thousand years and reflects the historical reality of the social and legal status of Jews living in North African Muslim countries

Granot Series

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

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.

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

'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

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 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 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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Photo-reproduction of the classic collection of 376 folksongs, printed in Yiddish with transliteration, originally published in St. Petersburg in 1901. This new edition, annotated and with an introduction by Dov Noy, is the first in a series of reproducti

Prize of the Association for the encouragement of research, literature and art among Iraqi Jews in Israel, 1995 An examination of the arduous course of the social and economic integration of the Iraqi Jewish community in Israel. The eventual outcom

A collection of essays and articles dealing with various aspects of Israel-Diaspora relations. The contributors are well-known authorities on the subject from Israel and abroad, as well as spiritual leaders of Diaspora Jewish com-munities. The unifying th

Articles on subjects of interest to Prof. Ratzaby in the fields of poetry and Piyyut, Yemenite Jewry, Sa'adia Gaon, Hebrew Language and Hebrew Literature. The book represents the latest discoveries by leading scholars in each of these areas and other subj

A collection of 16 papers that constitute a major contribution to the study of the economic life and social development of the Jewish communities in the Mediterranean area before the Industrial Revolution.

The Nissim D. Gaon Prize of the B'Yahad Fund for the Study and Dissemination of the Heritage of North African Jewry, 1988 A bitter halakhic dispute that illustrates the difference in attitudes of Moroccan Jews and the more liberal newcomers from

The Naftali Prize for Economic and Social Research , Municipality of Tel-Aviv – Jaffa, 1988. Analyses the economic structure of the Iraqi Jewish community at the end of the 1940s, on the eve of emigration to Israel, and discusses the differences bet

The book deals with the Irgun Brit Zion, which was founded in Kovno after its capture by the Russians and continued to function in the Kovno Ghetto and even in the concentration camps. Its main activities were in the sphere of education and ideology whils

A collection of studies dealing with various aspects of Jewish political life. The philosophical and structual elements of the Jewish polity in the Diaspora, political change in 20th-century Anglo and American Jewish communities, Jewish identity in the St

The book is concerned with Hungarian-Jewish relations before and during the Second World War. Its center of focus is official Hungarian policy towards the Jews, and, particularly, anti-Jewish legislation enacted by successive Hungarian governments between

Prize for Religious Zionist Thought, In Memory of Haim Moshe Shapira, 1982 A chapter in the history of the Mizrachi in Poland. With the transitions that occurred in the Jewish community in Poland during the first World War and the years immediately the

Prize for Religious Zionist Thought, In Memory of Haim Moshe Shapira, 1982 A study of an important and unique institution in Mediterranean Jewish community life- the practice if ransoming co-religionists, who were enslaved or had been captured by Chris