Jewish Studies

Jewish Wayfarers in Modern China focuses on the many extraordinary contacts between East and West in China during the 20th century. Through a collection of short biographies situated in the context of Chinese and Western history, it offers a panoramic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634988537Author Howard I BogotFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bookstand PublishingPublisher Bookstand PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953829092Author Erin Leib SmoklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for Israel, cementing it as a cornerstone of American Jewish...

"Beneath the surface [of our society]," writes historian Robert Wistrich, are "ancient myths, dark hatreds, and irrational fantasies [that] continue to nourish antisemitism." But the larger question has to do with why we are so prone...

This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the...

Learning to Read Talmud is the first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms that range from seminaries to secular universities and with...

American Jewish identity has changed significantly over the course of the past half century. During this time, Irving Greenberg developed a unique theology that anticipated David Hollinger's notion of postethnicity and represents a compelling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545232088Author Adult Coloring BookFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539038290Author Hooshang Meshkinpour M DFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or "somewhat secular." Is this expansive definition of Jewishness a new phenomenon? What are its roots? What are its implications for the Jewish community, its institutions, and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491792698Author John McGinleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498004923Author Edward DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495453946Author Shawn Ryan RosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491792681Author John McGinleyFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 445g

In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages.As an edited work, the Bible includes texts mostly depicting long-gone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440132629Author Stanley D Golub Professor of International Studies Martin S JaffeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint iUniverse.comPublisher iUniverse...

Envy is a universal emotion, yet people are very reluctant to confess their envy of another. In Embracing Envy, Josh Gressel suggests it is our shame at admitting we feel inferior to another person that keeps envy so hidden. Through interviews with...

This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. Initially focused on children from the former Soviet Union, the Mofet Association went on to...

A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or "somewhat secular." Is this expansive definition of Jewishness a new phenomenon? What are its roots? What are its implications for the Jewish community, its institutions, and its...

Jewish Wayfarers in Modern China focuses on the many extraordinary contacts between East and West in China during the 20th century. Through a collection of short biographies situated in the context of Chinese and Western history, it offers a panoramic...

One of the state's key features is its ability to oblige its citizens to risk their lives on its behalf by being sent into war. However, what is it about the state (or its equivalent) that makes this obligation justifiable? Justifying the Obligation to...

This set includes all six volumes in the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series, for less than the cost of buying each book separately! Included in the set are these volumes : Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Body; Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Money;...

This set includes all three volumes in the Celebrating the Jewish Year series, for less than the cost of buying each book separately! Included in the set: The Fall Holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot; The Winter Holidays: Hanukkah, Tu B'Shevat,...

The renewed and growing interest in ethical wills today speaks to the attraction they have to people who want to reflect on the deeper meaning of their own lives and share what they have learned with those they love. These very personal documents, with...

In this cutting-edge study, Michael Rosenak provides a new understanding of the challenges inherent in teaching Judaism today. His ground-breaking theories are based on close examination of religious experience in individual's lives, consulting sources...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814349182Author Daniel MonterescuFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985206920Author Lisa NewmanFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint White Goat Press / Yiddish Book CenterPublisher White Goat Press / Yiddish Book Center

Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photography-both as a textual element and through the inclusion of actual images- Amihay shows how the presence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666942262Author Andrea JeftanovicFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

The Library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest holds a rare piece of Jewish art from the seventeenth century, an illuminated scroll of the biblical Book of Esther, dated 1673. This manuscript is a unique example in terms of Jewish art because of two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612496672Author Steven J. GoldFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Purdue University PressPublisher Purdue University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Jerusalem is a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It is a city of strange contradictions and astonishing curiosities. This book seeks to help readers grasp Jerusalem's unique role in the history of mankind, as it charts the...

"As a professor of biblical studies, I am frequently sent textbooks . . . and I often consult academic introductions to the field as well. None of them is as clear, sophisticated, and readable as this book. For Jewish and non-Jewish readers. . . . The...

This second volume of the Jewish Role in American Life continues the Casden Institute's ongoing examination of the contemporary American Jewish community and its contributions to life and culture in the United States. Focusing again on five key...

This book is the first to analyse, and attempt to explain the methods by which cases of child sexual abuse have been systematically concealed in Orthodox Jewish communities. The book describes a number of characteristic cases of such cover-ups: first,...

This is a chronological survey of American films with significant Jewish content that made an important statement about America. Both familiar and lesser known films are included. An introduction discusses why American Jews were attracted to films as...

In these two extraordinary works, published posthumously, Gertrude Kolmar's elegiac prose transports us into her characters' rich inner worlds even as it depicts the cold material realities of 1920s Berlin. In A Jewish Mother from Berlin, Martha...

While acknowledging the ways in which persecution inevitably affects a community, this book deviates from most Jewish studies to survey the ways in which Jewish history has been shaped by the everyday experience of love. It examines erotic poetry,...

An evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of women at the Israeli periphery. Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the...