Zvi: 73 books

Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern times. The text has three...

On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of these events? Was this a revolution, a revolutionary...

Nel 70 d.C. gli ebrei erano per la maggior parte contadini analfabeti, residenti in Eretz Yisrael e in Mesopotamia. Nel 1492 erano diventati una piccola popolazione istruita e sparsa in una miriade di centri urbani, da Siviglia in Spagna a Mangalore in India, che si dedicava a mestieri artigianali...