language written by Jewish writers. Ancient Jewish literature includes Biblical literature and rabbinic literature. Medieval Jewish literature includes not only...

Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It encompasses traditions of writing in English, primarily...

Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history. The term typically refers to...

American Jewish literature and cinema, the Jewish nose has been a defining characteristic – for better or for worse – of the American Jewish identity...

to deed, practice, and identity. Jewish culture covers many aspects, including religion and worldviews, literature, media, and cinema, art and architecture...

Historically, the portrayals of Jesus in the Talmud and Jewish literature were used to justify anti-Jewish sentiments. Maimonides lamented the pains that Jews...

would sustain the fall of the Second Temple. Jewish messianism has its root in the apocalyptic literature of the 2nd to 1st centuries BCE, promising a...

ideal world. The Jewish mother became one of two stock female Jewish characters in literature in the 20th century, the other being the Jewish-American princess...

The Jewish apocrypha (Hebrew: הספרים החיצוניים, romanized: HaSefarim haChitzoniyim, lit. 'the outer books') are religious texts written in large part by...

Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians...