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Free Download Howard Schwartz, "Lilith’s Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural"
English | ISBN: 0195067266 | | 288 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Once upon a time in the city of Tunis, a flirtatious young girl was drawn into Lilith’s dangerous web by glancing repeatedly at herself in the mirror. It seems that a demon daughter of the legendary Lilith had made her home in the mirror and would soon completely possess the unsuspecting girl. Such tales of terror and the supernatural occupy an honored position in the Jewish folkloric tradition.

Free Download Dario Miccoli, "A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories across the Modern Mediterranean "
English | ISBN: 0253062926 | 2022 | 236 pages | PDF | 13 MB
A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories of and feelings for a Sephardi Jewish world in North Africa and Egypt that is lost forever but whose echoes many still hear. Surely, some of these Jewish migrants were already familiar with their new countries of residence because of colonial ties or of Zionism, and often spoke the language. Why, then, was the act of leaving so painful and why, more than fifty years afterward, is its memory still so tangible?

Free Download Ilan Stavans, "The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America "
English | ISBN: 082296631X | 2020 | 296 pages | EPUB | 934 KB
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Free Download Judith R. Baskin, "The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture "
English | ISBN: 0521869609 | 2010 | 558 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture is a comprehensive and engaging overview of Jewish life, from its origins in the ancient Near East to its impact on contemporary popular culture. The twenty-one essays, arranged historically and thematically, and written specially for this volume by leading scholars, examine the development of Judaism and the evolution of Jewish history and culture over many centuries and in a range of locales. They emphasize the ongoing diversity and creativity of the Jewish experience. Unlike previous anthologies, which concentrate on elite groups and expressions of a male-oriented rabbinic culture, this volume also includes the range of experiences of ordinary people and looks at the lives and achievements of women in every place and era. The many illustrations, maps, timeline, and glossary of important terms enhance this book’s accessibility to students and general readers.

Free Download John among the Apocalypses: Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the ‘Apocalyptic’ Gospel By Benjamin E. Reynolds
2020 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0198784244 | PDF | 66 MB
The Gospel of John has long been recognized as being distinct from the Synoptic Gospels. John among the Apocalypses explains John’s distinctive narrative of Jesus’s life by comparing it to Jewish apocalypses and highlighting the central place of revelation in the Gospel. While some scholars have noted a connection between the Gospel of John and Jewish apocalypses, Reynolds makes the first extensive comparison of the Gospel with the standard definition of the apocalypse genre. Engaging with modern genre theory, this comparison indicates surprising similarities of form, content, and function between John’s Gospel and Jewish apocalypses. Even though the Gospel of John reflects similarities with the genre of apocalypse, John is not an apocalypse, but in genre theory terms, John may be described as a gospel in kind and an apocalypse in mode. John’s narrative of Jesus’s life has been qualified and shaped by the genre of apocalypse, such that it may be called an ‘apocalyptic’ gospel. In the final two chapters, Reynolds explores the implications of this conclusion for Johannine Studies and New Testament scholarship more broadly. John among the Apocalypses considers how viewing the Fourth Gospel as apocalyptic Gospel aids in the interpretation of John’s appeal to Israel’s Scriptures and Mosaic authority, and examines the Gospel’s relationship with the book of Revelation and the history of reception concerning their writing. An examination of Byzantine iconographic traditions highlights how reception history may offer a possible explanation for reading John as apocalyptic Gospel.

Free Download Reuven Snir, "Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Cultures: Language, Literature, and Identity"
English | ISBN: 1399503219 | 2023 | 400 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Part of a two-volume set, this volume examines the issues of commitment and hybridization in Arabic literature concentrating on Palestinian literature and Arab-Jewish culture and the interactions between them. Reuvin Snir studies the contribution of Palestinian literature and theatre to Palestinian nation-building, especially since the 1948 Nakba. Becoming an essential part of the vocabulary of Arab intellectuals and writers, since the 1950s commitment (

Free Download Maeera Shreiber, "Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone"
English | ISBN: 1531501737 | 2022 | 208 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
What is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . ." (Amos Oz, Judas)