Islamic peoples account for one fifth of the world's population and yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West of what Islam really is. Francis Robinson and his team set out to address this, revealing the complex and sometimes contrary nature of Muslim culture. As well as taking on the issues uppermost in everyone's minds, such as the ...
Divided into three sections, this work explains how the concepts and practices of traditional European Judaism were adapted to North American culture beginning in the late nineteenth century. Part I focuses on the ideas and activities of Cyrus Adler (1863-1940), one of the most prominent leaders of the traditionalist Jewish community in the United ...
Planning Canadian Regions is the first book to consolidate the history, evolution, current practice, and future prospects for regional planning in Canada. As planners grapple with challenges wrought by globalization, the evolution of massive new city- regions, and the pressures for sustainable and community economic development, a deeper ...
In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily "Morgen Journal", published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Galicia entitled "Erinerungen fun mayn leben". In it, he evoked a world that had been changed almost beyond recognition as a result of the First World War, and was shortly to be completely obliterated ...
First published in 1587, Moses Cordovero's now classic Or Necerav was intended to serve several purposes; it was meant both to provide a justification for the study of Kabbalah and to encourage that study by providing detailed instructions on how to go about that study to interested laymen; and it was intended as a precis of Cordovero's much ...
In one of the few studies of the early immigrant orthodox rabbinate in North America, author Ira Robinson has delved into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rabbis and their community introduces several rabbis who, in various ways, impacted their immediate congregations as well as the wider ...
Motivated drug consumers are eager to learn how to live healthier, happier lives while reducing both health-related costs and drug-related problems. The author explains it all in this timely and authoritative book. Consumer drug prices are the result of incremental contributions from discovery through dosage delivery system design, clinical ...
Explored is the interaction between Judaism and the modern state, relations between Jews and the larger Quebec community, differences within the Jewish community, and the distinctive literary voice of Montreal Jewish writers.
World War I saw thousands of New Zealand men sail from their shores to fight for the "Old Country". Those who returned rarely spoke of their experiences and friends and family were often left to wonder just what they had seen. One such soldier was Ira Robinson. However, he was a frequent letter-writer, mainly to his sister Lizzie. These letters ...
Proceedings of the Montreal Conference on Moses Maimonides held in October 1985. This collection of essays, in both English and French, seeks to define Maimonides as a seminal figure in Medieval Judaism. Most of the essays address the topic of the "Idea of Human Perfection in Maimonides".
The author wrote this book for the benefit of all patients who require prescription drug therapy - the uninsured, the under-insured and the insured - for the prevention, treatment or cure of disease or other health conditions. However, his focus is on the elderly, and the uninsured poor and disabled who require some level of financial help to be ...
Using long-ignored constitutions of various Jewish organizations, this unique book uncovers the political history of Canadian Jewry since its beginning during the 1700s. Building on the premise that Jews, since time immemorial, have written down their values and ideologies, this study effectively demonstrates how these writings record the ...
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