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  • Abstinence and Holiness, Embracing Self-Deprivation
    Joshua A. Fogel
    The Talmud comprises a massive collection of rabbinical debates from late antiquity. This volume explicates one tractate within it, Nazir, concerned with self-imposed abstentions: no wine or product of the grapevine, no cutting of bodily hair, and no contact with a human corpse. ...
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    31,83 €

  • Whole Megilla
    Joshua A. Fogel
    The Whole Megilla tracks tractate Megilla of the Babylonia Talmud page by page, offering an close reading and exegesis of the text. It makes this difficult work comprehensible. ...
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    47,75 €

  • Willy
    I. J. Singer / IJSinger / Joshua A. Fogel / Joshua AFogel / Linda / Leye Lipsky
    Willy presents an intergenerational combative relationship which has been lifted wholesale from Europe to America, with the same contentious features in play. The dual narrative of father and son, deriving from literalist observance and heterodox dissent respectively, obtains with equal force on both sides of the Atlantic. ...
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    47,80 €

  • Grains of Truth
    Joshua A. Fogel / Joshua AFogel
    This volume looks at tractate Menachot, which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain the text for contemporary readers. ...
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    70,11 €

  • (Sacrifices) Left at the Altar
    Joshua A. Fogel / Joshua AFogel
    This volume looks at tractate Zevachim (Sacrifices), which is mostly concerned with meat offerings slaughtered and presented at the Temple (when it stood). Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain and humanize the text for contemporary readers. ...
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    63,61 €

  • Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
    Joshua A. Fogel / Joshua AFogel
    Fogel explores the tractate Horayot (Decisions), page by page, and offers a modern commentary with doses of humor and comparative examples. The central focus concerns how to adjudicate cases when the governing body, the Sanhedrin, incorrectly designates certain practices legal and people follow the erroneous advice as a result. ...
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    45,15 €

  • Daily Reflections on Idolatry
    Joshua A. Fogel / Joshua AFogel
    This volume looks at Avodah Zarah, a tractate of the Talmud concerning idolatry, page by page. Daily Reflections on Idolatry offers a modern commentary with doses of humor and comparative examples in an effort to both explain and humanize the text and make it even more accessible to contemporary readers. ...
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    55,78 €

  • The Taiping Rebellion
    Joshua A. Fogel / Shunshin Chin
    This volume portrays one of the most compelling stories of the 19th century, when a quasi-religious and social movement lost 100,000 warriors in an attempt to overthrow the Qing dynasty and left 20 million dead in their wake. ...
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    102,11 €

  • Imagining the People
    Joshua A. Fogel / Peter G. Zarrow
    While much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of 'citizenry'. This book examines thinkers from the period 1890-1920 in modern China, and shows how China might forge a modern society with a political citizenry. ...
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    315,03 €

  • Life Along the South Manchurian Railroad
    Ito Takeo / Joshua A. Fogel
    As part of a worldwide movement, nations and multinational groups are trying to reach closure regarding past atrocites and inhumanites, including what happened in Nanking in 1937 ...
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    315,26 €

  • Recent Japanese Studies of Modern Chinese History
    Joshua A. Fogel
    Chinese Studies in History contains unabridged translations of Chinese sources, primarily scholarly journals and collections of articles published in book form. The aim of the journal is to present the more important Chinese studies in this field in the light of the interest of those who are professionally concerned with it. ...
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    104,41 €