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	JewishEncyclopedia.com
		This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906.
		The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.
		Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish History (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.).
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com (214 words)

	English literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The literature of the period is overtly political and thoroughly aware of critical dictates for literature.
		These early Romantic Poets brought a new emotionalism and introspection, and their emergence is marked by the first romantic Manifesto in English literature, the "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads".
		Literature for children was published during the Victorian period, some of which has become globally well-known, such as the work of Lewis Carroll who was a proponent of nonsense verse, as was Edward Lear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_literature (6943 words)

	Medieval literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Just as in modern literature, it is a complex and rich field of study, from the utterly sacred to the exuberantly profane, touching all points in-between.
		Travel literature was highly popular in the Middle Ages, as fantastic accounts of far-off lands (frequently embellished or entirely false) entertained a society that, in most cases, limited people to the area in which they were born.
		Much of medieval literature relied on allegory to convey the morals the author had in mind while writing--representations of abstract qualities, events, and institutions are thick in much of the literature of this time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medieval_literature (1473 words)

	1 Enoch
		Accordingly at a somewhat early period, probably as far back as the second century before Christ, an apocalyptic writing appeared purporting to have been composed by Enoch, which work was subsequently issued in an enlarged and revised form.
		In fact the Parables are a Jewish work and are rooted firmly in traditions stemming from the Old Testament; they build upon what is said about the 'one like a man' of Dan.
		It is a matter of debate whether the Parables, a Jewish work, might have exercised some limited influence on the gospel traditions; but their real importance—in the writer's opinion from towards the end of that century.
	www.earlyjewishwritings.com /1enoch.html (3742 words)

	Jewish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jewish culture and community in Poland from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
		The polemical literature generated by the most important internal Jewish controversy of the early modern period; influence of the controversy on attitudes toward the study of Kabbalah, toward Messianism, and toward rabbinic authority; the writings of Jacob Sasportas, Moses Hagiz, Jacob Emden, David Fleckeles, and their opponents.
		The rise of Jewish national movements in late 19th and early 20th century Central and Eastern Europe; focus on the diverse forms of Jewish national expression, including Zionism, Autonomism, and Bundism; the emergence of these movements within the wider context of the national revival in 19th century Europe.
	www.yu.edu /revel/jewish.htm (1686 words)

	Early English Jewish literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The increasing degradation of the political status of the Jews in the thirteenth century is paralleled by the scantiness of their literary output as compared with that of the twelfth.
		In the thirteenth century, however, only a few authorities, like Moses of London, Berechiah de Nicole, Aaron of Canterbury, and Elias of London, are known, together with Jacob b.
		History of the Jews in England--Other Influences on the Jewish Standing in the Community
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Early_English_Jewish_literature (299 words)

	Yiddish Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yiddish literature may be divided into three periods: the period of preparation, the classical age, and the postclassical period.
		The brief classical age of Yiddish literature, from the late 19th to the early 20th century, is epitomized in three great writers of fiction: Shalom Jacob Abramowitz, better known as Mendele Mokher Sefarim (Mendele the Itinerant Bookseller); Shalom Aleichem; and Isaac Leib Peretz.
		The Jewish Forward, established as a daily in New York City by the American editor and author Abraham Cahan in 1897, and still being published weekly (in Yiddish and in English), attained a large circulation.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/projects/Yiddish/English/literature.html (1455 words)

	Chapters On Jewish Literature - by Israel Abrahams [Authorama]
		These twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the current era, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786.
		In the Jewish Sibylline books the religion of Israel is presented as a hope and a threat; a menace to those who refuse to follow the better life, a promise of salvation to those who repent.
		It was in Spain that the finest fruit of Jewish literature in the post-Biblical period grew.
	www.authorama.com /book/chapters-on-jewish-literature.html (20655 words)

	John Felstiner co-edits anthology on Jewish American literature, translates poems and prose of Paul Celan : 2/01
		The questions in the passage also point to the Jewish identity of the diarist and artist, whose works went on to animate the blood and flesh of their ideas long after their lives were extinguished.
		Uninitiated readers of Jewish American literature -- those whose grasp of the tradition may be limited to Woody Allen and Allen Ginsberg (both authors' work is represented in the volume) -- probably will be surprised by the "variety" and "buoyancy" of the writing in the anthology, Felstiner said.
		Felstiner said that throughout much of his early life he was aware of his Jewish identity but "paid very little attention to it" -- that is, until he took a hiatus from Stanford in 1974 to teach American literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2001/february28/jewishlit-a.html (1563 words)

	Proposal for a Minor in Jewish Studies
		A third draft was completed in October 2001, circulated among the Jewish Studies faculty and Neal Abraham, further edited on the basis of e-mailed responses and a conference with AVP Abraham, circulated in draft at the October 22, 2001 meeting of CAPP, and refined at a meeting of the program faculty on October 23, 2001.
		Because the act of questioning and debating is central to the Jewish tradition, Jewish Studies is a excellent place in which students can hone their capacity for "clear, thorough, and independent thought." It is also a place which insists that students open themselves to the views of others from different traditions.
		The Jewish Studies minor would be administered by a program coordinator and overseen by a steering committee of six to eight faculty members, all of whom will be appointed by the Academic Vice President from among faculty participating in the program.
	www.depauw.edu /acad/jewish/proposal_for_a_minor_in_jewish_s.htm (2053 words)

	Jewish Publication Society: TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures: Presentation Edition
		Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike.
		The JPS TANAKH is an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the Masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text.
		It is the culmination of three decades of collaboration by academic scholars and rabbis, representing the three largest branches of organized Judaism in the United States.
	www.jewishpub.org /product.php?isbn=0827603657 (195 words)

	English Department, UW-Madison
		Many faculty and students participate in departmental interest areas, groups such as the Contemporary Literature Colloquium, the Minority Studies Reading Group, the Middle Modernity Study Group, the American Studies group, the Beowulf Club, the Gender Studies group, and the Renaissance Colloquium.
		The English Language and Linguistics program includes a linguistics track in the undergraduate English major, a Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) Certificate, an MA in Applied English Linguistics and PhD in English Language and Linguistics.
		The English as a Second Language Program teaches some 1,500 international students a year, helping to support the campus's commitment to linking the University to all parts of the world.
	www.wisc.edu /english (449 words)

	dictionary - English literature
		The term English literature refers to literature written in the modern English language or its antecedents, or literature composed in English by writers who are not from England.
		English literature emerged as a recognisable entity only in the medieval period, when the English language itself became distinct from the Norman and Anglo-Saxon dialects which preceded it (see Old English poetry).
		The English novel did not become a popular form until the 18th century; many works, however, claim a place as the first novel in English.
	www.medicalrace.com /dictionary/English_Literature (1374 words)

	Enrichment - Early Education /The Price Brodie Initiative in Jaffa - Tel Aviv University
		In the two Arabic language kindergartens, the teachers are trained to apply the principles of the program for their children, but the facilitator does not work directly with groups of children.
		During the year workshops will be offered to the parents of children in the kindergartens, with the aim of empowering the community of parents and teaching skills and knowledge to promote the children.
		The program is operated in all the Jewish pre-pre-compulsory and pre-compulsory kindergartens in Jaffa (a total of 8 kindergartens), in collaboration with Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, by means of "auxiliary staff" working in the kindergarten.
	www.tau.ac.il /community/price-brodie/english/early-edu.html (1306 words)

	Jewish Studies, UM Libraries
		Jewish Information and Referral Service, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington JIRS is a community service of The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington.
		Jewish Women's Archive The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive is to uncover, chronicle and transmit the rich legacy of Jewish women and their contributions to our families and communities, to our people and our world
		Jewish Language Research Website This website is designed to be a resource for Linguists, Jewish Studies Scholars, and the general public to learn about the speech and writing of Jews throughout history and around the world.
	www.lib.umd.edu /MCK/GUIDES/jewish_studies.html (3146 words)

	DePauw University : Jewish Studies
		Jewish Studies at DePauw is a place where faculty and students from a variety of disciplines come together in shared inquiry.
		Jewish Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to the Jewish experience: the history, culture, religion, and philosophy of Judaism and Jewish peoples.
		English 197: Existentialism: From the Sublime to the Absurd (Elective [Hawkins])
	www.depauw.edu /acad/jewish (838 words)

	Daniel Traister's Home Page--Jewish American Fiction
		In the twentieth century, many American Jewish writers apparently decided no longer to allow themselves to be the (somewhat exoticized) subjects of others' portrayals but instead to portray themselves and their country directly.
		This class briefly surveys a very small fraction of the fictions written by Jewish Americans, beginning early in the last century with a work by Anzia Yezierska, an immigrant, and coming into the present century with a book written by a Philadelphian.
		You should be prepared to deal comfortably with the fact that many of the Jewish writers we will read are "Jewish" in the sense that they are of Jewish descent, but they are not necessarily therefore also religiously observant.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~traister/syl-jewish-fiction.html (1971 words)

	Faculty Bios
		I was born and raised in California, educated as an undergraduate at Columbia and Cambridge universities, and in 1994, got a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
		I teach courses in nineteenth and twentieth century literature in English, specializing in recent years in the literatures of the former British empire: Ireland, India and Pakistan, and Anglophone Africa.
		I’m captivated by the definitions and practices of literary genre in the Renaissance (mostly because early modern writers themselves were obsessed with genre, its rules, and bending those rules), especially the heterogeneous body of texts that participate in the romance tradition.
	www.wellesley.edu /English/facultybios.html (3111 words)

	Jewish Studies Collection Policy
		For historical reasons, it is strongest in English language secondary literature, both monographs and serials.
		Again for historical reasons, relative to the existing universe of scholarly literature the collection is strongest in Biblical studies, weaker in rabbinics, Jewish history and literature.
		Priority is given to maintaining subscriptions to all serials of scholarly value and to acquiring as many as possible current scholarly monographs on a broad subject front.
	www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/cdjewishstudies.html (524 words)

	English/Journalism/Literature Course Descriptions
		Introductory course in dramatic literature stressing the influences of the past upon modern theater, the commonality and differences between theatrical and filmed drama, and the process on how the written script becomes a live or filmed production.
		Survey of American literature beginning with the period after the Civil War to the present.
		Prerequisite: ENG 101 Investigates fiction and film with emphasis on their uniqueness and relationship, their common narrative elements that convince reader and viewer of their correspondence to life, and of the process of translation from one narrative form to another.
	www.stchas.edu /coursedesc/english.shtml (906 words)

	Stanford English Professor John Felstiner co-edits Jewish American Literature, translates poems and prose of Paul ...
		"Jewish American suggests that the 'Jewish' part, being an adjective, is subordinate to the 'American' part and for a lot of us that's true," he said.
		Uninitiated readers of Jewish American literature those whose grasp of the tradition may be limited to Woody Allen and Allen Ginsberg (both authors' work is represented in the volume) probably will be surprised by the "variety" and "buoyancy" of the writing in the anthology, Felstiner said.
		Felstiner said that throughout much of his early life he was aware of his Jewish identity but "paid very little attention to it" that is, until he took a hiatus from Stanford in 1974 to teach American literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/01/jewishlit228.html (1571 words)

	UCLA NELC Courses in Jewish Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Introduction to and overview of Jewish religious movements and evolution of their ideologies in the Western world from time of the Enlightenment to the present.
		Cabalistic literature in the broad sense (i.e., Jewish esoteric literature from the rabbinic to modern period).
		Survey of early modern Jewish history beginning with enormously repercussive expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, followed by transformations in Jewish society and identity over five centuries in Europe and Middle East, and concluding with nationalism.
	www.nelc.ucla.edu /Courses_JewishStud.htm (779 words)

	Texts of Judaism
		This was one of the first English translations in modern times of any portion of the Talmud.
		This is the only extensive English translation of a portion of the Zohar currently in the public domain.
		Josephus was a Jewish historian, soldier and scholar who lived in the first century [37-100 C.E.].
	www.sacred-texts.com /jud/index.htm (628 words)

	Course Offerings
		CPN 101 or CPN 103 may be taken concurrently with any 200-level literature course.
		For ENG and AEE majors, ENG 203 is prerequisite for 300-level literature courses.
		ENG 221: Introduction to Western Literature II (O) Major phases of literary heritage of Western World from Enlightenment to Modern Period.
	www.cortland.edu /english/literature.htm (1135 words)

	Products in Categories
		In fact, Philo’s works are a goldmine of information on Jewish exegetical methods, the worldview of the apostles, and theological matters of great importance for Christianity.
		This monumental work by an ecumenical group of scholars is first of all a complete English dictionary of NT Greek...it also serves as a guide to the usage of every New Testament word in its various contexts, and makes a significant contribution to exegesis and theology.
		Of Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek, the author writes:Classified according to its intent, it belongs among the aids to the interpretation of the New Testament.
	www.logos.com /products/groups/allitems/language-tools-greek (2565 words)

	Faculty, Jewish-Studies, WCAS, Northwestern University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Dr. Kalimi specializes in the history and historiography of ancient Israel, biblical theology, rabbinic interpretation of the Bible, ancient Near Eastern literature and history, and Judaism of the Second Temple period.
		His book, 'The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles' is the recipient of the 2006 R.B.Y.Scott Award, which is awarded annually by the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies in recognition of an outstanding book in the areas of Hebrew Bible and/or the Ancient Near East.
		Though Professor Kalimi regularly publishes and teaches in English, Hebrew and German, his native language is Turkish.
	www.cas.northwestern.edu /jewish-studies/faculty/kalimi.htm (144 words)

	Didache. The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (translation Kirsopp Lake).
		This is the so-called "negative form of the Golden Rule." It is found in some manuscripts in the "Apostolic decrees" in Acts 15:28, and is, in various forms, met with in Jewish and early Christian literature.
		This passage has never been satisfactorily explained: it probably refers to a tendency among some prophets to introduce forms of worship, or of illustration of their teaching, of doubtful propriety, if so the reference below to the prophets of old is perhaps an allusion to Hosea (Hos.
		The meaning is obscure; but there seem to be other traces in early literature of a doctrine that each curse also contained the elements of a counterbalancing power to salvation.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /text/didache-lake.html (2665 words)

	Abbreviations
		If there is no English translation preceding and corresponding with the "Greek a/r" or "Greek omit" or "Greek add", then the correction in Greek did not result in a significant enough change to alter the English translation.
		Usually, though not always, such incorrect additions to the Greek text resulted in incorrect additions to the English translation by the KJV translators.
		omit = The English word used by the KJV does not have a corresponding word in the original Hebrew or Greek text of that book of the Bible.
	www.bibletexts.com /abbrev.htm (1544 words)

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