The Talmud reflects a predominantly agricultural and sedentary life style. Halakhic activities that presupposed physical presence operated efficiently in this world. The shift to a commercial and mobile society in the ...

This dissertation examines the evolution of the attitudes of American Zionist leaders towards the Palestinian Arabs during the years from the rise of organized American Zionism until the establishment of the State of ...

The historiography of American Judaism has, to date, paid little attention to the religious and communal life of Jewish immigrants from Western and Central Europe in the middle of the nineteenth century. A survey of the ...

Scholarship of medieval Jewish exegesis often views figurative exegesis as a reflection of philosophical and polemical considerations. This study, however, evaluates the linguistic and literary perceptions reflected in ...