This is a sociolegal study of the role of the Roman familia in legal and commercial transactions in classical times. The Roman family included slaves and freedmen as well as wives, children and relatives and it served as the basis for a considerable type of legal and quasi-legal activities. In this study, socio-economic data shed light on the law and legal rules illuminate aspects of the extended family.

Sons, Slaves and Freedmen in Roman Commerce

History

Kirschenbaum, Aaron

Americas

Hebrew University Magnes Press

Presented here is a collection of 350 songs in four volumes, complete with the music, the words in Yiddish and in transliteration into Latin characters, and translations or summaries in English and Hebrew. A comprehensive and lyrical introduction by Abba Kovner, opens the Anthology. Kovner traces the sources of Yiddish song, recreates the pre-war East European Jewish world in which the songs are rooted, and fuses memory with history to make the material live. (Hebrew, English and Yiddish)

Anthology of Yiddish Folksongs (English, Hebrew and Yiddish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Music

Each generation of the Amzalak family is traced, from Joseph Amzalak's arrival in Palestine to their exodus due to World War I.

Israel Studies in Historical Geography, Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Eretz Israel: The Amzalak Family 1816-1918

Glass, Joseph

Middle East

Moreshet Sepharad: The Sephardi Legacy sets out to summarize the monumental legacy of a Jewish community that resided within the historical boundaries of Spain for some fifteen hundred years. Many chapters evaluate the contribution of Sephardi Jewry to the renaissance of Hebrew Language and science. These as well as many issues in Jewish communal life, have been analyzed and evaluated both in the context of Spain prior to the Expulsion and in the various settings where the exiles settled and formed new social patterns. The thirty-eight chapters which make up the work provide guidelines which the student or interested reader may utilize to gain a deeper understanding of the essence of Sephardi Jewry in the basis of its glorious past and heritage.

Moreshet Sepharad: The Sephardi Legacy

Beinart, Haim

World

Haim Beinart

Here the author has sought to contribute a fresh approach to salient themes in the Freudian texts that could be regarded as the underpinnings of Freud's idiosyncratic attitude toward religious feeling and, ultimately, of his own problematic identification with Moses. Working with an impressive array of citations from Freuds' papers, Ater argues that Freud's complex religious identification as well as his scientific outlook - particularly as regards to the deepest strata of the unconscious, group psychology, and the genesis of religion - share a single psychological structure.

The Man Freud and Monotheism

Biographies & Memoirs

Ater, Moshe

Professionals & Academics

Europe

This volume covers some fifty years of Pines' work in the field of Islamic philosophy, from the very first article he published ("Some Problems of Islamic Philosophy", in 1937) to an article that was found in his paper after his death and is published here for the first time ("The origin of the Tale of Salâmân and Absâl").

Studies in the History of Arabic Philosophy: The Collected Works of Shlomo Pines

Politics & Social Sciences

Pines, Shlomo

Philosophy

Correlations Between Biblical Accentuation and Traditional Jewish Exegesis: Linguistic and Contextual Studies (Hebrew Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Kogot Simcha

Christian Books & Bibles

This work reveals the role, contribution and modus operandi of Zionist private enterprise in the Jewish rural and urban settlement of Palestine between the start of the century and the outbreak of the First World War. The book demonstrates that the role of private enterprise was extensive both in terms of land purchases and in terms of settlement activities. The author recapitulates these efforts, categorizes these activities as unique and identifies the underlying rationale of "national capitalism". The private investors and companies employed economic-commercial means to secure national-Zionist objectives. They were willing to be content with limited profits and received in compensation the emotional gains accruing from their contribution to building the Land of Israel.

The Business of Settlement: Private Entrepreneurship in the Jewish Settlement of Palestine, 1900-1914

Katz, Yossi

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