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Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of ...

Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of ...

Moshe Gammer

Muchbetter works are Dietrich Beyrau, Militär und Gesellschaft in Vorrevolutionäre Russland(Köln, 1984);JohnL. H.Keep, Soldiers oftheTsar: ArmyandSociety inRussia,1462–1874 (Oxford, 1985). Allthe following data on the Russian army ...
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European ...

The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European ...

Maria Gorecki Nowak

Contributions by Abdurahman Avtorkhanov, Marie Bennigsen Broxup, Fanny E. B. Bryan, Moshe Gammer, Paul B. Henze and ... Contributions by Yuri Slezkine , Bruce T. Roll, Galya Diment, James R. Gibson, Harriet Murav, Stephen Watrous,  ...
Kabbalah: New Perspectives

Kabbalah: New Perspectives

Moshe Idel

In this prizewinning new interpretation of Jewish mysticism, Moshe Idel emphasizes the need for a comparative and phenomenological approach to Kabbalah and its position in the history of religion.
Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History

Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History

Aaron W. Hughes

Ibid. x. Moshe Ma'oz, “Introduction,” in The Meeting of Civilizations: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish, edited by Moshe Ma'oz (Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2009), 11. Nathan C. Funk and Meena Sharify Funk, “ Peacemaking Among ...
Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures

Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures

Alex Lubotzky

Above all, I have the pleasure of thanking Andy Magid, Moshe Morgenstern and Peter Sarnak. From Peter I learnt much of the relevant background, Andy with his enthusiasm encouraged me to embark on this long voyage, while Moshe is ...
Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special ...

Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special ...

Moshe Morad

In the course of eight visits between 1995 and 2007, the last dozen years of Fidel Castro’s reign, Moshe Morad became absorbed in Havana’s gay scene, where he created a wide social network, attended numerous secret gatherings-from ...
Israel divided: ideological politics in the Jewish State

Israel divided: ideological politics in the Jewish State

Rael Jean Isaac

Notable here were Moshe Unna, a member of the National Religious party in the first six Knessets, and Pinchas Rosenbluth, director of the religious division of Mikveh Israel, the first agricultural school in Palestine. Moshe Haim Shapira, who  ...
Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences, ...

Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences, ...

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Drumming in a religious African-Cuban ceremony in Havana (Photo: Moshe Morad, 2006) .................................... Figure 9. Drumming in a Bedouin hafla in the Jordanian desert (Photo: Moshe Morad, 2008) .................................................. Tables ...
Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and ...

Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and ...

Moshe Idel

In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their ...
בעיות בינלאומיות

בעיות בינלאומיות

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See 1) "Economic and Institutional Effects on Income Distribution: The Case of Israel", by Haim Ben-Shahar and Moshe Sandberg, Public Finance, Vol. XXII, No. 3, 1967; and 2) "Redistribution of Income in Israel", by Moshe Sandberg, ...
The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia

The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia

Moshe Idel

The first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah.
The Recruit

The Recruit

Maurice Valency

Eighteen-year-old Moshe Valency decides to quit school and enlist in the army.
Messianic Mystics

Messianic Mystics

Moshe Idel

One of the worl'ds leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience.
Canadian Architects: Moshe Safdie, Frank Gehry, Barton ...

Canadian Architects: Moshe Safdie, Frank Gehry, Barton ...

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Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the ...

Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the ...

Moshe Idel

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the whole range of material dealing with creation of the golem beginning with late antiquity and ending with the modern time.
Zero Space: Moving Beyond Organizational Limits

Zero Space: Moving Beyond Organizational Limits

Frank Lekanne Deprez

For example, Moshe Rubenstein and Iris Firstenberg show that to demand zero contamination of our beaches, we must first ask what exactly constitutes contamination. 4 We need to establish a numerical consensus describing contamination.
Terror Out of Zion: Fight for Israeli Independence

Terror Out of Zion: Fight for Israeli Independence

J. Bowyer Bell

These advocates of terror pitted themselves against not only the British and the Arabs, but also against less violent brethren like Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan, and Yitzhak Rabin.This is the definitive story of desperate, dedicated ...
Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah

Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah

Moshe Idel

This book presents important topics regarding the more mystical trend of Kabbalah—the ecstatic Kabbalah.
The Jerusalem Scrolls

The Jerusalem Scrolls

Bodie Thoene

Moshe Sachar and Alfie Halder escape from the chaos of Jerusalem during the Israel-Arab War, finding themselves in a secret, subterranean Jewish library where they discover a scroll depicting the story of Miryam and Marcus.
The Travelling Rabbi: My African Tribe

The Travelling Rabbi: My African Tribe

Moshe Silberhaft

One of the top businessmen in Manzini, John Susman, is a prime example, as was former minister of health Fanny Friedman. On one occasion, John set off to Johannesburg to introduce himself to his father. He had misgivings, but the minute ...
Kasztner's Crime

Kasztner's Crime

Paul Bogdanor

... to remove any thought of revolt or escape. . . . As far as I know nobody fled.” Moshe Sandberg (Sanbar), My Longest Year: In the Hungarian Labour Service and in the Nazi Camps (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1968), 18. Kasztner, Bericht, 68 .
A History of Palestine, 634-1099

A History of Palestine, 634-1099

Moshe Gil

Based on an impressive array of sources including documents from the Cairo Geniza collection, the author examines the lives of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities of Palestine against a background of the political and military ...
Mentors and friends

Mentors and friends

Moshe Kol

Pinchas Rosen (Felix Rosenbluth) was born in 1887 of a religious family. His father, Shmuel Rosenbluth, came to Germany from Hungary in 1871. He studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva and intended to continue his studies at the rabbinical ...

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