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> Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce several new volumes in Jewish > Studies. Learn more and browse our publications at > www.academicstudiespress.com. > > Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews: A Contemporary Jewish Theology by > Jerome Yehuda Gellman > > That the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, “the God of the > Jews,” is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts of that > God, by contemporary standards, as well as by the classic problem of evil. In > this book, Jerome Gellman aims to alleviate the first challenge, the > so-called ideological critique, for the traditional believer by recommending > replacing the God of the Jews with a different God, a “Jewish God,” one in > whom many traditional Jews have come to believe. And the problem of evil is > lightened for the traditional believer, mainly by a possible theodicy > explaining much evil. The book is at once analytic in style and Hasidic in > broad orientation. > > Learn more: > https://www.academicstudiespress.com/emunot/perfect-goodness-and-the-god-of-the-jews-a-contemporary-jewish-philosophy > > --- > > Studies in Tractate Eruvin of the Talmud Bavli: Structure, Language, > Redaction, and Halakha by Uri Zur > > Topics discussed in this volume include different types of structure in > Talmudic texts from a literary point of view; the study of the Aramaic > language utilized in the Bible and the Talmud from a linguistic and > interpretive perspective; the redaction of sugyot in the Talmud Bavli > analyzed from a textual point of view; and matters of halakha and halakhic > rules. The author also examines contemporary topics such as modern Judaism in > Israel and peacemaking efforts grounded in the Pentateuch and Jewish > tradition. > > Learn more: > https://www.academicstudiespress.com/out-of-series/studies-in-tractate-eruvin-of-the-talmud-bavli > > --- > > A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai edited by Steve Hochstadt > > For a century, Jews were an unmistakable and prominent feature of Shanghai > life. They built hotels and stood in bread lines, hobnobbed with the British > and Chinese elites and were confined to a wartime ghetto. Jews taught at the > Shanghai Conservatory of Music, sold Viennese pastries, and shared the worst > slum with native Shanghainese. Three waves of Jews, representing three > religious and ethnic communities, landed in Shanghai, remained separate for > decades, but faced the calamity of World War II and ultimate dissolution > together. > > In this book, we hear their own words and the words of modern scholars > explaining how Baghdadi, Russian and Central European Jews found their way to > Shanghai, created lives in the world’s most cosmopolitan city, and were > forced to find new homes in the late 1940s. > > Learn more: > https://www.academicstudiespress.com/touro-university-press/a-century-of-jewish-life-in-shanghai > > --- > > Courage and Fear by Ola Hnatiuk > > Courage and Fear is a study of a multicultural city in times when all norms > collapse. Ola Hnatiuk presents a meticulously documented portrait of Lviv’s > ethnically diverse intelligentsia during World War Two. As the Soviet, Nazi, > and once again Soviet occupations tear the city’s social fabric apart, groups > of Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish doctors, academics, and artists try to > survive, struggling to manage complex relationships and to uphold their > ethos. As their pre-war lives are violently upended, courage and fear shape > their actions. Ola Hnatiuk employs diverse sources in several languages to > tell the story of Lviv from a multi-ethnic perspective and to challenge the > national narratives dominant in Central and Eastern Europe. > > Learn more: > https://www.academicstudiespress.com/ukrainianstudies/courage-and-fear > > --- > > “We are not only English Jews—we are Jewish Englishmen”: The Making of an > Anglo-Jewish Identity, 1840–1880 by Sara Abosch-Jacobson > > A distinct Anglo-Jewish identity developed in Britain between 1840 and 1880. > Over the course of these forty years, a mature, increasingly comfortable, > native-born Jewish community emerged and matured in London. The multifaceted > growth and change in communal institutional and religious structures and > habits, as well as the community’s increasing familiarity and comfort with > the larger English society, contributed to the formation of an Anglo-Jewish > communal identity. The history of this community and the ways in which it > developed are explored in this volume using archival and also contemporary > advertising material that appeared in the Jewish Chronicle and other > Anglo-Jewish newspapers in these years. > > Learn more: > https://www.academicstudiespress.com/landsandages/we-are-not-only-english-jews-we-are-jewish-englishmen > > --- > > Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Antisemitism: The Bristol–Sheffield > Hallam Colloquium on Contemporary Antisemitism edited by Jonathan G. Campbell > and Lesley D. Klaff > > This book springs from the Bristol–Sheffield Hallam Colloquium on > Contemporary Antisemitism at the University of Bristol in September 2015. > International experts in Religious Studies, Law, Politics, Sociology, > Psychology, and History came together to examine the complexities of > contemporary antisemitism. Recent attacks on Jews in European cities have > increased awareness of antisemitism and, as this collection shows, such > attacks cannot be separated from wider geo-political and ideological factors. > One distinct feature of antisemitism today is its demonization of the State > of Israel. Older ideas also feature Jews being blamed for all the world’s > ills, thought to possess almost supernatural levels of power and wealth, and > conspiring to harm the non-Jewish other. These and other ideas forming the > background to antisemitism in Europe and North America are unpacked in this > book with a view to understanding—and thereby combating—contemporary > antisemitism. A key concern is how unifying features might be isolated amid > the diverse manifestations of this oldest of hatreds. > > Learn more: > https://www.academicstudiespress.com/antisemitismstudies/unity-and-diversity-in-contemporary-antisemitism > > > For more of our recent publications, please visit > www.academicstudiespress.com/books. > > -- > Academic Studies Press > > 1577 Beacon St. > Brookline, MA, 02446 > > www.academicstudiespress.com > e: [email protected] > t: 617.782.6290
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