David Biale is Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis and author of Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America (UC Press). He edited Cultures of the Jews: A New History, and Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (UC Press) with Susannah Heschel and Michael Galchinsky.
16 Ebooks by David Biale
David Biale: Blood and Belief
Blood contains extraordinary symbolic power in both Judaism and Christianity—as the blood of sacrifice, of Jesus, of the Jewish martyrs, of menstruation, and more. Yet, though they share the same lit …
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€28.99
Gershom Gerhard Scholem: Origins of the Kabbalah
With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A …
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€31.99
Christopher Nadon: Enlightenment and Secularism
Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the ch …
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€168.24
David Biale: Not in the Heavens
The story of the origins and development of a Jewish form of secularism Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spa …
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€30.99
Martin Buber: Hasidism and Modern Man
Hasidism, a controversial, mystical-religious movement of Eastern European origin, has posed a serious challenge to mainstream Judaism from its earliest beginnings in the middle of the eighteenth cen …
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€30.99
David Biale & David Assaf: Hasidism
The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book’s unique bl …
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€42.99
Raphael Gross: Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts / Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook XV/2016
Das Jahrbuch 2016 des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts widmet sich in zwei Schwerpunkten aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln Stationen jüdischer beziehungsweise israelischer Diplomatiegeschichte. Der erste Schw …
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€80.00
David Biale: Traditionen der Säkularisierung
The study traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how …
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€69.00
Biale David Biale: Gershom Scholem
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionis …
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€21.74
David Biale & Robert S. Westman: Thinking Impossibilities
Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several disciplines and …
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€94.51
David Biale & Robert S. Westman: Thinking Impossibilities
Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several disciplines and …
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€81.77
David Biale: Jewish Culture between Canon and Heresy
This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These pieces, written between 1974 and 2016, are all repr …
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€29.99
David Biale: Eros and the Jews
Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce’s hip eroticism to Woody Allen’s little man with the big libido (and even bigger sexual neurosis). Does Judai …
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€48.99
