Isidor Singer. Austrian publisher and writer. New York City. Authority control. Start this Book. Place of publication. Internet Archive identifier : jewishencycloped01sing. Permission Reusing this file. Public domain Public domain false false. Contains the complete contents of the volume Jewish Encyclopedia over 15, articles and illustrations , originally published between An authoritative reference guide covers diverse aspects of Jewish life, including Jewish culture, customs, history, rituals, and beliefs.
Alphabetically arranged articles identify names, dates, and terms significant in Jewish history, literature, music, science, and other fields. In word and graphics, this one-volume source for everything Jewish provides a quick reference for anything from the biblical Adam to how many Jews there are in Zanesville, Ohio. This is a book about contemprorary issues, each of which is addressed from an Orthodox Jewish perspective in two to three pages.
An Unorthodox Guide to Everything Jewish Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, this unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covers culture, religion, history, habits, language, and more. Readers will refresh their knowledge of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, the artistry of Barbra Streisand, the significance of the Oslo Accords, the meaning of words like balaboosta,balagan, bashert, and bageling.
Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. The Jewish encyclopedia : a guide to its contents, an aid to its use Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Beside presenting the first full-scale monograph on the Evil Eye in the Bible and the biblical communities volumes 3 and 4 , the volumes summarize a century of research since the milestone two-volume study of Siegfried Seligmann, Der bose Blick und Verwandtes , and they describe the ecological, historical, social, and cultural contexts within which the biblical texts are best understood.
Throughout the study, the Evil Eye in antiquity is treated not as an instance of vulgar superstition or deluded magic, but as a physiological, psychological, and moral phenomenon whose operation was deemed explicable on rational grounds.
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