Purdue University Press, 2014. — 368 p. — ISBN: 1557536805, 9781557536808. By analyzing its position within the struggles for recognition and reception of different national and ethnic cultural groups, this book offers a bold new picture of Israeli literature. Through comparative discussion of the literatures of Palestinian citizens of Israel, of Mizrahim, of migrants from the...
De Gruyter, 2013. — 585 p. — (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature). — ISBN10: 3110323044. — ISBN13: 978-3110323047. EnglishISBN: 31103230442013571 p.PDF2 MB This volume includes a new translation and a detailed verse-by-verse commentary, which touches upon philological, literary, and historical questions. The extensive introduction discusses the work's date, historical...
De Gruyter, 2011. — 337 p. — (Studia Judaica, 62). Language: English This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. Many Pious Women is an annotated translation with extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th-century manuscript from Italy in Western Yiddish. It details the participation in the...
Article // University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2013. - 35 p. A recent study of genetic variation in southeastern European populations also proposed a Khazarian origin for Ashkenazi Jews, eliciting considerable criticism from other scholars investigating Jewish ancestry who favor a Near Eastern origin of Ashkenazi populations. This paper re-examines the genetic data and...
Article // Civilization Researches # 9. UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Dialogue. Tbilisi University Press, 2012. - 42-44 p. The paper aims to discuss how identity building narrative can influence the reconstruction o f history. With this in mind, the Georgian Jewish identity building narrative and historiography, which is greatly affected by this narrative, has been analysed.
Scientific project. — Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011. — 106 p. While previous studies dedicated to Judeo-Slavic dialogue considered Jews and Slavs as two separate entities divided by religious, social, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic barriers, this research group will operate on an opposite assumption — that the barriers between Jews and Slavs were porous, that religious...