Leon Garland

This chapter examines the Jaiminīyanyāyamālā (Garland of Jaimini’s Reasons) of Mādhava (1297–1388) as an example of Mīmāṃsā philosophy. It asks what Mīmāṃsā thinkers find philosoph...

Abstract The book examines the intellectual journey of Moses de León of Guadalajara, the self-proclaimed “Light of the West” and reputed author of medieval kabbalah’...

This chapter reviews the book Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist (2015), by Pierre Birnbaum. In Léon Blum, Birnbaum offers a biography of the twentieth-century French po...

In eleven novels written over four decades, Leon Uris has chronicled the unceasing fight of dedicated individuals against the forces of oppression, in particular fascism, communism...

On the night of Sunday April 23, 1961 Judy Garland made history. That’s no hyperbole. Surrounded by a throng of ecstatic fans (3,165 to be exact), the legendary performer delivered...

A Great Miracle Happened Here: A Rabbi's Musings from Akiva to Zionism, is the memoir of a ba'al teshuva, a Jew who became religious as an adult. Born in a displaced persons camp t...