Dr. Everett Fox
Everett Fox holds the Allen M. Glick Chair in Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the translator of The Five Books of Moses: The Schocken Bible, Volume I, the author of studies on biblical narrative ... [... more]
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The Five Books of Moses: The Schocken Bible, Volume 1
 Too much commentary: I wanted a Torah, translated from the earliest manuscripts and translated by a non-affiliated, objective translator. I think that's what I got, but there is way too much explanation, commentary and presentation of alternatives. All [... more]
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Paul Radin
The late Paul Radin, one of the most distinguished of American anthropologists, was also the author of The Trickster: A Study of American Indian Mythology (Schocken paperback). Anthropological and psychological analysis by Radin Kereny and Jung ... [... more]
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, fled to Paris in 1933, and came to the United States after the outbreak of World War II. She was editorial director of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948. She taught at Berkeley, Princeton, the ... [... more]
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Cultures of the Jews: A New History
Oustanding treatment of Jewish cultures: There are few more complex and also baffling subjects than the nature of the Jewish People and Judaism as a fusion between a civilization and a community/people/nation. Even more enigmatic is the survival and [... more]
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The Jewish Writings
Author: Hannah Arendt Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8924 EAN: 9780805242386 ISBN: 0805242384 Number Of Pages: 640 Publication Date: 2007-03-13 Release Date: 2007-03-13 [... more]
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What Nietzsche Really Said
From Amazon.com: Kathleen Higgins and Robert Solomon's comprehensive, lucid, and often humorous overview of Nietzsche's philosophy sings with the joy of his own work--a joy, the authors point out, that is often misunderstood or overlooked. Central to [... more]
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Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
From Amazon.com: American literature boasts a long history of white authors writing about blacks. From Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, to Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's controversial study of ethnicity and [... more]
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The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 808.89892 EAN: 9780805242287 ISBN: 0805242287 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: 2005-01-11 Release Date: 2005-01-11 [... more]
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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Whetting appetites of those unfamiliar with the breadth of the so-called heretic...: For most Jewish teens and school-aged children, the late Amsterdamer Baruch Spinoza isn't exactly the first order of academic business on the run-of-the-mill eigth grade [... more]
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Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
Very interesting: In 1690, Gluckel of Hameln decided to write her memoirs, intending to have them read only by her children. She was an unknown woman then, and is known today only because she wrote her memoirs. Reading her memoirs gives one a chance to [... more]
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Five Books of Moses, Deluxe Edition with Illustrations, ...
Too much commentary: I wanted a Torah, translated from the earliest manuscripts and translated by a non-affiliated, objective translator. I think that's what I got, but there is way too much explanation, commentary and presentation of alternatives. All [... more]
CDN$84.00
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