Ladders, in both secular and spiritual thought, signify growth. The ladder of 12th-century Jewish philosopher and court physician Maimonides had eight rungs, each designed to make the world a better ...

What is the latest academic rage in China? Science? Medicine? Computers? How about Jewish Studies? A Center for Jewish Studies recently opened in China offering degrees up to the PhD level and there ...

Most writers on proverbs have thought it necessary to attempt a definition of their subject, but the task is difficult, and the phrase that will silence criticism has yet to be produced. Lord Russells ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The phrase "Jewish paradise" (from Latin paradisus Judeorum) originated in an early seventeenth-century xenophobic and antisemitic poem. Over ...