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Studies in Memory of Isadore Twersky
In this memorial volume, the students of Professor Isadore Twersky pay homage to their late teacher by producing a collection of essays that show his and their remarkable range of interests and talents. The result is an important collection of original scholarship on a wide range of topics in Jewish Studies.
Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870-1900
In this intimate memoir of a young Jewish woman's adolescence and life in a nineteenth century Eastern European shtetl, Hinde Bergner recalls the gradual impact of modernization on a traditional world as she finds herself caught between her thirst for a European education, true love, and the expectations of her traditional family.
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Biblical Quotation in Jewish Prayers from Antiquity through the Middle Ages
In the beginning, prayers were straightforward: people turned to God and asked for help. By the closing centuries of the biblical period, however, prayers began to include references to Scripture. This process grew in intensity and refinement as Judaism moved from the biblical period to early post-biblical times. This collection of essays seeks to chart the main lines of the Scripturalization of prayer over this entire period.