Studies in Jewish history
By: edited by Joseph Dan.
Contributors: Dan, Joseph, 1935-
Series: Binah ;; v. 1
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Jews -- History.; Judaism -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Articles originally written and published in Hebrew, have been adapted from scholarly journals into English.
Table of contents: title: The death of Joab / Ephraim E. Urbach; title: Tacitus on the Jews / Yochanan H. Lewy; title: The concept of history in hekhalot and merkabah literature / Joseph Dan; title: The origins of Jewish communal organization in the Middle Ages / Yitzhak F. Baer; title: The generation of the Spanish exiles considers its fate / H.H. Ben-Sasson; title: From apostasy to return to Judaism / Joseph Kaplan; title: The dispute between Jacob Berab and Levi ben Habib over renewing ordination / Jacob Katz; title: Jewish diplomatic activities to prevent expulsion of the Jews from Bohemia and Moravia in 1744-45 / Barouh Mevorah; title: On the return of Moses Hess to Judaism / Michael Graetz; title: The "Kulturkampf" and the Jews of Germany / Uriel Tal.