Original Cloth. 8vo. VIII, 199 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Contains the following: Two Messages to Moscow - Beginning Fresh: What Russian Jews Have to Learn from American Jewry - Founding a Scholarly Tradition in Jewish Learning The Russian-Jewish Moment - Learning and Community From San Diego to Prague - Jewish Learning and the Jewish Community: Where Do We Go from Here? - When Judaism Dies but the Jewish Community Continues: Purim in Prague - Addresses in Abo/Turku The Letter Gives life - The Halakhan as Theology - Ritual as a Religious Statement in Judaism - Addresses at the Bard College and University of South Florida Conference-Seminar: Religion and Economic Action - The Rational Disposition of Scarce Resources: When a Religious System Incorporates an Economics - The Transvaluation of Value: When a Religious System Redefines Wealth - From Parallels to Analogues: Reciprocally Reading Gospels' and Rabbis' Parables - Some Recent Reviews and a Memoire - Dagmar Borner-Klein's Der Midrasch Sifre zu Numeri - Yael Zerubavel's Recovered Roots - Ivan Strenski's Durkheim and the Jews of France - My Beginnings in the Academic Study of Judaism. South Florida studies in the history of Judaism no. 184. Contains ex libris stamp: “Presented to Pius XII Memorial Library by Professor Jacob Neusner”. Subjects: Judaism - 20th century. Jewish learning and scholarship. Economics - Religious aspects - Judaism. Institutional marks on endpages and outer edges, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (NEUSNER-3-26)