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The Politics of Torah

By Alan L. Mittleman
Subjects: History

A study of the origins and early history of the Agudat Israel movement in Germany, the first international political movement among Orthodox Jews.

Dachau

By Marcus J. Smith
Subjects: History

A U. S. Army doctor describes the fight to save 32,000 survivors of Dachau.

Politics of Ideocracy

Explains why and how ideocratic and totalitarian governments emerge, establish themselves, evolve, eventually collapse, and disintegrate or transform themselves into new ideocracies.

The Parable of the Tribes

This is a new view of the role of power in social evolution. It shows how, as human societies evolved, intersocietal conflicts necessarily developed, and how humanity can choose peace over war.

ACTA Volume #21

Edited by Mary-Jo Arn
Subjects: History

Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East

This book brings together for the first time the work of many of the leading scholars in the field of Middle East working-class history. Using historical material from nineteenth-century Syria, late Ottoman ...

The Degeneracy Crisis and Victorian Youth

By Thomas E. Jordan
Subjects: History

A book in the ecology of child development, The Degeneracy Crisis and Victorian Youth studies stress in the lives of children in the Victorian age (1837 - 1901). The term "degeneracy" is pursued in the ...

New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy

This is the first book to thoroughly explore Confucian and Neo-Confucian metaphysics and ethics, building upon the creativity and temporality of human existence and human nature as well as their extension ...

From Tradition to Commentary

This book examines Torah and its interpretation both as a recurring theme in the early rabbinic commentary and as the very practice of the commentary. It studies the phenomenon of ancient rabbinic scriptural ...

The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories

Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes ...

Four Approaches to the Book of Psalms

Uriel Simon describes the fascinating controversy that raged from the tenth to the twelfth centuries regarding the theological status and literary genre of the Psalms. Saadiah Gaon, who initiated the ...

The Religious Dimensions of Confucianism

The role of Confucianism in the development of East Asian Cultures has only recently begun to be fully appreciated. Even with this recognition, there is still little understanding of the tradition as ...

Between Kant and Kabbalah

This is the first full-length, systematic study in English of Isaac Breuer, a founder of Agudat Israel, whose intellectual achievements reflected the world of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber in an Orthodox ...

They Made Their Souls Anew

This is an original, philosophical discussion in which André Neher relates the lives of prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jews to traditional Jewish thought on issues of assimilation, the Holocaust, ...

ACTA Volume #16

Edited by David Lampe
Subjects: History

Remembrance of Patria

An essential guide to the history, culture, and social life of New Netherland.

Dutch Trade and Ceramics in America in the Seventeenth Century

An indispensable introduction to the trade and ceramics of the New Netherland colony.

New World Dutch Studies

The history, culture, and lifeways of New Netherland as researched and interpreted by Dutch and American scholars.