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Makes available the 1585 edition of the Seder mitzvot hanashim in Yiddish and English. Fram sets Slonik's work in its bibliographical and historical contexts, demonstrating its relationship with the Shulhan Arukh, exploring how rabbis opposed formal education for women, and offering a treasure trove of information on the place and roles of women in Polish-Jewish society.

Explores the etymology of key terms for dreams in the Hebrew Bible, presents dozens of examples of biblical dreams and visions, and categorises them as prophetic, symbolic, or incubation. Shaul Bar studies biblical dreams and visions in the context of similar phenomena in the literature of neighbouring cultures and analyses the functions of dream reports in the biblical corpus.

The Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. With a history spanning nearly a century, it stands as a chronicle of Jewish scholarship through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

The eight essays in this volume are evenly divided between the poetry and prose of Milton. Two of the essays discuss major sonnets, and two other essays on poetry engage "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained". The other four essays on prose are revisionist.

A collection of eight essays on the poetry of John Milton, with half the volume devoted to "Paradise Lost". The contributions include Anthony Welch's mapping of the chronology of the epic and Raymond B. Waddington's examination of Milton's account of Abel's death.

Though long overshadowed by "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" has come under intense scrutiny. These essays offer fresh perspectives on and analyses of this spiritual poem, in which Milton dared to challenge the political, religious and aesthetic culture of Restoration England.

A collection of essays of comparative interpretation and analysis of many works by Milton, written between 1969 and 1999. The essays analyze such poems as "Comus" and "Paradise Lost", as well as prose works as diverse as "A Second Defence of the English People" and "De Doctrina Christiana".

This collection of ten biographical essays on Milton offers a revisionist interpretation of how, why and where his multiple presences appear in his writings. Rather than stressing his documented life, the essays probe his interior life by identifying its psychic traces in his writings.

This collection of essays explores the larger contexts that inform the composition, publication, and reception of Milton's major poems, notably "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained".

The journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

Contains eight essays that offer insights into Milton's poems, ranging from "Comus" and "Lycidas", to "Paradise Lost" and "Samson Agonistes". This book also contains an essay that offers a fresh direction for Milton scholarship, examining how he may have influenced Seventh-day Adventism.

Includes nine essays that offer coverage of Milton's works, both poems and prose. This work covers topics such as: Milton's self-identification with his female characters; his ambivalent attitudes toward knowledge and education; and a view of Milton's relationship with Galileo that invokes "The Da Vinci Code".

Includes ten essays that cover a wide range of topics including: the relationship of Milton's Satan to Marlowe's work; the adaptation of several episodes and demonic characters in Book II of "Paradise Lost" to the saga of "Odysseus"; and, Eve's dream in "Paradise Lost" and the interrelationship of identity, gender relations, and choice.

Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990) was one of America's most distinguished, influential, and beloved rabbis. This book analyses Freehof's views on a number of crucial issues that illustrate the evolution of American Reform Judaism.

A collection of essays that bring new insight into Jewish culture as it is intertwined in Jewish, European, Ottoman, and American history.

The first publication of a reclaimed WPA project studying Pittsburgh's black population. The book features articles on civil rights, social class, lifestyle, culture, folklore, and institutions, from colonial times through the 1930s.

Past winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, this long-time author from Black Sparrow Press is known for her fierce adherence to the truth and a language so musical one can almost hear the blues line underneath her stanzas.

The journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

A collection of ten essays which emphasize historicism, the predominant critical approach used to explicate Milton's writings. It provides an intertextual analysis of Milton's writings and those of his contemporaries. It also illuminates Milton's biography by focusing on his interaction with his two nephews.