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3. The Peaceful Crusade And so it went until 1798, the year that Europe made its long-in-coming countermove against the House of Islam with the invasion of Egypt by a ...

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Middle Date for the Exodus I don’t take the earliest or a late date for the Exodus, but what I call a middle date. Based on solid historical synchronisms, I’m ...

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9 “The Jew of Voorburg” IN 1665, the village of Voorburg, just outside The Hague, was in the grip of a rancorous civil dispute over who would be the next ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-08 | Author:Kenneth Hart Green [Green, Kenneth Hart]

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epub |eng | 2012-07-11 | Author:Lawrence J. Epstein

The song is interesting in reflecting the depth of German culture’s penetration into the European Jewish intellectual soul. Wagner had even been played for entertainment one night at the Congress. ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-08 | Author:Heinrich Graetz [Graetz, Heinrich]

"Vices have spread in our midst, which our fathers knew not, and which at any price have been bought too dearly. Irreligion, voluptuousness, and effeminacy, weeds that spring from the ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Gurock, Jeffrey S.

epub | | 2009-03-11 | Author:Arendt, Hannah. [Arendt, Hannah]

On the “Salt of the Earth”: Waldo Frank's “Jewish Interpretation” September 22, 1944 No critique can demolish an ideology more utterly than its complete enactment. In the fullness of its ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2000-01-31 | Author:Norman Solomon [Solomon, Norman]

The liturgy The Psalmist prayed seven times a day (Ps. 119: 164), and Daniel, in Babylon, three times (Dan. 6: 11). Though some scholars demur, it seems certain that Jewish ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Simon Schama

Naghrela was both the beneficiary of the endless wars of the Zirid Berber amirs, and the predictable victim of their relentlessness. The last campaigns, when he was in his middle ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-28 | Author:Israel Shahak [Shahak, Israel]

Major Features of Classical Judaism Let us therefore ignore those ‘dark ages’, and for the sake of convenience begin with the two centuries 1000-1200, for which abundant information is available ...

epub |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:Norman Solomon

- M - MACCABEE. See FAITH AND REASON; HANUKA; ḤASID; JOSIPPON; SADDUCEES; Table 19. Judah the Maccabee led the Jewish revolt against the Seleucids in 168 BCE. The origin of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Flavius Josephus [Josephus, Flavius]

WHAT CHARGE DAVID GAVE TO HIS SON SOLOMON AT THE APPROACH OF HIS DEATH, AND HOW MANY THINGS HE LEFT HIM FOR THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE. 1. A LITTLE ...

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(5) The description of wooden beams inserted into every third course of masonry may also seem mysterious; but it is a standard device, not only in royal constructions at other ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Nahum M. Sarna [Sarna, Nahum]

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