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Kiss of God: Spiritual Death in Jewish Religious History, pt. 1
(University of Washington Press, 1990)
Discussion of the spiritual face of Judaism in one of its many appearances. Fishbane explores the quest for spiritual perfection in early rabbinic sources and in Jewish philosophy and mysticism. The "kiss of God," a symbol for union with God, and the ritual practices - meditation and performance - connected with it are presented.
Kiss of God: Spiritual Death in Jewish Religious History, pt. 3
(University of Washington Press, 1990)
Discussion of the spiritual face of Judaism in one of its many appearances. Fishbane explores the quest for spiritual perfection in early rabbinic sources and in Jewish philosophy and mysticism. The "kiss of God," a symbol for union with God, and the ritual practices - meditation and performance - connected with it are presented.
Pardes: The Quest for Spiritual Paradise in Judaism, pt. 1
(1991)
Mysticism in Judaism
Kiss of God: Spiritual Death in Jewish Religious History, pt. 2
(Seattle : University of Washington Press,1994., 1990)
Discussion of the spiritual face of Judaism in one of its many appearances. Fishbane explores the quest for spiritual perfection in early rabbinic sources and in Jewish philosophy and mysticism. The "kiss of God," a symbol for union with God, and the ritual practices - meditation and performance - connected with it are presented.
Pardes: The Quest for Spiritual Paradise in Judaism, pt. 2
(1991)
Mysticism in Judaism
Pardes: The Quest for Spiritual Paradise in Judaism, pt. 3
(1991)
Mysticism in Judaism
Gender and Assimilation: The Roles and Representation of Women in Modern Jewish History, pt. 3
(University of Washington Press, 1992)
Explores the relation between gender and the encounter of Jews with various conditions of Modernity. She makes clear that the study of the process of Jewish assimilation in contemporary times must include women and gender in its framework.
Creative survival : I.L. Peretz and the makings of modern Jewish culture, pt. 1
(1998)
Wisse discusses the life and literature of Issac Leib Peretz and his influence on Jewish culture.
Gender and Assimilation: The Roles and Representation of Women in Modern Jewish History, pt. 1
(University of Washington Press, 1992)
Explores the relation between gender and the encounter of Jews with various conditions of Modernity. She makes clear that the study of the process of Jewish assimilation in contemporary times must include women and gender in its framework.
Choosing to be Jews: a Sociological Reflection on American Jews Since 1950, pt. 3
(University of Washington Press, 1993)
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minimum of prejudice and almost all domains of life have been accessible to them, but it has also been a time of assimilation, of swelling rates of inter-marriage, and of large numbers ignoring their Jewishness completely. Jews have ...