Inventing New Beginnings is the first book-length study to examine the conceptual underpinnings of the "Jewish Renaissance," or "return" to Judaism, that captur

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Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning investigates the ethics of making new beginnings after devastating moral rupture. The work argues that new beginnings must be made

Provides an account of the first permanent English settlement in North America, from the harrowing journey across the Atlantic to attacks from Native Americans,