The Emergence of Contemporary Judaism

Books about The Emergence of Contemporary Judaism

Books about The Emergence of Contemporary Judaism, Part I and II

This book, by Phillip Sigal, is volume two of a three-book set from the Pittsburgh Theological Monograph Series and is about the odyssey from rabbinic Judaism to the modern era, ending in 1650.

Jesus was a Jew. That simple statement carries with it a millennia of cultural bias, persecution, and ignorance. David Ray Bourquin attempts to shed some light on what it meant to be a Jew during the Roman Period with this detailed, annotated bibliography of works in English. Following a brief

Long before there were Jewish communities in the land of the tsars, Jews inhabited a region which they called medinat rusiya, the land of Russia. Prior to its annexation by Russia, the land of Russia was not a center of rabbinic culture. But in 1772, with its annexation by Tsarist