Books in the Continuum Studies in Jewish Thought series

Presents the history of exile and restoration ideas originating at the intersection of Judaic piety and the social history of the Jews. This book describes the distinguishing feature of Jewish thought as a religious hermeneutic in which the promise made to Abraham is preserved not just as a pious memory but as a certain hope for restoration.

Ethnographic study of the Lubavitcher movement, and a socio-psychological examination of Lubavitcher messianism.

A new critical approach to Jewish thinking and praxis, drawing upon key thinkers such as Adorno, Wittgenstein, Godel, Heidegger and Celan.

Provides an exploration of Jewish marriage and its alternatives in traditional Jewish texts from a feminist perspective. This book shows how the marriage is an acquisition and contextualises the gender hierarchy of marriage within the rabbinic exclusion of women from Torah study.