The Jewish scholar Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi (882-942) ranks as the most important medieval Jewish scholar of literature and history. Little is known of the early life of Saadia ben Joseph except that he was born in Egypt, lived for sometime in...
Saadya(882 and Three Jewish Philosophers. Philo, Saadya Gaon, Jehuda Halevi, selections with introductions by H. Lewy, A. Altman, and I. Heinemann, eds. (New York: Meridian Books,...
Saadya [addendum]882 90. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Wolfson, Harry A. The Philosophy of the Kalam. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976. Wolfson, Harry A. Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy. Cambridge, MA:...
Founder of Israel's Black Panthers Saadia Marciano was one of the founders of the Israeli Black Panthers, a band of young North African immigrants who thrust the grievances of their under-privileged community on to the national agenda in the early 1970s and forced...
Six decades after the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders' response to the Nazi genocide is still very much on the minds of many in the community. Some Jews involved in protests over human rights abuses in Sudan have said they are trying to avoid repeating...