Jewish studies(14)

Bohemia’s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century

This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the “quiet” decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of t...

Texts, Contexts, Reassessments

Tales of the Prague Ghetto

Trained in philosophy and medicine, the writer, translator, scholar, and political and cultural activist Siegfried Kapper (1821–1879) dev...

Aramejština knihy Zohar

This monograph, entitled The Aramaic of the Book of Zohar, presents the essential morphological phenomena of the Aramaic language used in...

The Torah / Law Is a Journey

The Old Testament is rich in metaphor. Metaphorical expressions appear not only in places where you might expect them, like the poetic ve...

Using Cognitive and Culturally Oriented Linguistics to Interpret and Translate Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible

Vendulka

Famed Czech Avant-garde photographer Jan Lukas snapped an offhand portrait of twelve-year-old Vendulka Vogl in March 1943. A friend of th...

Flight to Freedom

T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question

An English translation of a successful title by the first post-1989 Czech ambassador to Israel, Miloš Pojar. The book is a result of the ...

Židovské tradice a zvyky

Jewish traditions and customs are among the most interesting and multifarious areas of Jewish studies as they reach out to many other dis...

Judaismus a ženy v Izraeli

This books attempts to outline the reality of today's Holy Land through interviews with local inhabitants. The first part captures the so...

Der alte Prager Judenfriedhof

A reprint of this charming book on the history of Prague's most famous cemetery, originally published in Czech and German versions in 190...

Židovská pouť a poutní místa na Blízkém východě v hebrejské cestopisné literatuře 12.-16. Století

This book, based on the Hebrew travel literature from the 12th - 16th century and other Hebrew or Arabic sources, covers the development ...

Šma Jisra'el

Egon Erwin Kisch známý a neznámý