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Rabbis and their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930 by Ira Robinson 9781552381861
$47.27In one of the few studies of the early immigrant Orthodox rabbinate in North America, Ira Robinson has delved into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rabbis and their Community: Studies in the Eastern... -
Finding Our Way: Jewish Texts and the Lives We Lead Today by Barry W. Holtz 9780827608184
RRP: $20.63$18.37The ancient rabbis believed that the world rests on three pillars: study, worship, and good deeds. It is said that the greatest of these is study, for it leads to the other two. But exactly how does the modern Jewish reader go about studying the Mishnah,... -
Jewish in America: Living George Washington's Promise by Richard L Rubin 9780997891010
RRP: $23.16$19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997891010Author Richard L RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Park International PublishingPublisher Park International PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Typically Jewish by Nancy Kalikow Maxwell 9780827613027
RRP: $23.21$20.51Is laughter essential to Jewish identity? Do Jews possess special radar for recognizing members of the tribe? Since Jews live longer and make love more often, why don't more people join the tribe? "More deli than deity" writer Nancy Kalikow Maxwell poses... -
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice by Elliot N. Dorff 9780827609075
RRP: $20.63$16.22How do we expand health care coverage to more Americans? Are hate crimes legislation and affirmative action fair? What sacrifices must we make to protect the environment? Is the death penalty morally acceptable? Contributors include Jill Jacobs, of... -
Singer's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture by Ilan Stavans 9780803271364
RRP: $25.79$21.26A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, negotiates wildly varied topics as effortlessly and deftly as he manages the multiple perspectives of a... -
The Jew as Outsider by Jack N Porter 9780932270092
RRP: $19.29$16.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932270092Author Jack N PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Spencer PressPublisher Spencer PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Pirke Avot: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Life by William Berkson 9780827609174
RRP: $30.95$23.08The great Jewish ethical tradition through a contemporary lensIn this new edition of the well-known Jewish classic, Berkson helps us see that Pirke Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) is more than just a fundamental religious text; it is also a compelling,... -
With or Without You: The Prospect for Jews in Today's Russia by Maxim D. Shrayer 9781618116598
RRP: $18.05$16.95In his captivating new book, based on new evidence and a series of interviews, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer offers a richly journalistic portrait of Russia's dwindling yet still vibrant and influential Jewish community. This is simultaneously an... -
Far from Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community by Charles London 9780061561085
RRP: $19.34$14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061561085Author Charles LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 249g -
Jewish Education by Ari Y Kelman 9781978835627
RRP: $36.11$31.14Most writing about Jewish education has been preoccupied with two questions: What ought to be taught? And what is the best way to teach it? Ari Y Kelman upends these conventional approaches by asking a different question: How do people learn to engage in... -
Lifesaving Letters: A Child's Flight from the Holocaust by Milena Roth 9780295999043
$115.91In 1939, in the shadow of Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia, six-year-old Milena Roth was sent away from her home and her loving parents and taken to safety by what came to be know as the Kindertransport, which rescued ten thousand Jewish children... -
End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel by Mikhael Manekin 9798887193236
RRP: $138.02$91.67End of Days is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative... -
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition by Marc Dollinger 9781479826896
RRP: $30.95$26.88Highlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movement Black Power, Jewish Politics charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black... -
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition by Marc Dollinger 9781479826889
RRP: $95.46$83.14Highlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movement Black Power, Jewish Politics charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black... -
Why the Jews?: How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture by Robert Cherry 9781538143124
RRP: $45.15$39.93At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejects the commonly held explanations for this shift: Jewish commercial acumen and their desire to assimilate... -
Jewish Culture and Creativity: Essays in Honor of Professor Michael Fishbane on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday by Eitan P. Fishbane 9798887193069
RRP: $127.70$96.45Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish... -
R. Saadia Gaon: A Leader of Generations by Eliezer Schlossberg 9798887192642
RRP: $118.67$89.28R. Saadia Gaon (882-942) was unquestionably one of the most important if not the most important medieval Jewish thinker. He dealt with biblical exegesis, philosophy, grammar, poetry, prayer, and Halakha, and in many of these fields he is considered an... -
Jewish Images in the Media by Herbert Matis 9783700138785
RRP: $45.15$34.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700138785Author Herbert MatisFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences... -
For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age by Jessica Roda 9781479809752
RRP: $41.28$36.91A compelling look at the lives of ultra-Orthodox and formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish women and their use of media technologies to create a new market for music and film Mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as... -
The First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII by Ellen M. Eisenberg 9780739113820
RRP: $56.76$49.85The First to Cry Down Injustice explores the range of responses from Jews in the Pacific West to the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. While it is often assumed that American Jews-because of a commitment to fighting... -
The First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII by Ellen M. Eisenberg 9780739113813
RRP: $118.68$103.88The First to Cry Down Injustice explores the range of responses from Jews in the Pacific West to the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. While it is often assumed that American Jews_because of a commitment to fighting... -
Jewish Studies in the 21st Century: Prague - Europe - World by Marcela Zoufala 9783447101288
RRP: $89.01$85.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447101288Author Marcela ZoufalaFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 5940g -
Authentically Jewish: Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for Recognition by Stuart Z. Charme 9781978827592
RRP: $56.76$49.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978827592Author Stuart Z. CharmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Checkbook Zionism: Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship by Eric Fleisch 9781978819955
RRP: $159.96$138.08American Jews donate approximately $2.5 billion to Israel each year. Behind all that money and influence lies a power-sharing dynamic that has left an indelible mark on the relationship between Israeli and American Jews and on the direction of Israeli... -
Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate by Meir Persoff 9781936235100
RRP: $29.66$28.83British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks launched his tenure of office in 1991 with the aim of an inclusivist Decade of Jewish Renewal. Within a few years - fulfilling his installation prediction that 'I will have failures, but I will try again, another way,... -
Judaism in Post-Halakhic Age by Jack J. Cohen 9781934843925
RRP: $100.61$96.23"Judaism in a Post-Halakhic Age" tackles the following questions: What is Halakhah, and what role has it played in the creative survival of the Jewish people for two millennia? Why is Halakhah no longer capable of functioning as it has until... -
Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate by Meir Persoff 9781934843901
RRP: $100.61$96.75British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks launched his tenure of office in 1991 with the aim of an inclusivist Decade of Jewish Renewal. Within a few years - fulfilling his installation prediction that 'I will have failures, but I will try again, another way,... -
The Multicultural Challenge in Israel by Avi Sagi 9781934843499
RRP: $118.67$113.69Delving into Israel's multifaceted society, editors Avi Sagi and Ohad Nachtomy, along with their distinguished contributors, explore the many ethnic and religious communities that comprise modern Israel and the ways in which they interact and often... -
The Communal Gadfly: Jews, British Jews and the Jewish State: Asking the Subversive Questions by Geoffrey Alderman 9781934843468
RRP: $100.61$96.75Since 2002 Geoffrey Alderman, the leading authority on the Jews of modern Britain, has written the chief "Comment" column for the "Jewish Chronicle", the world's oldest continuously circulating Jewish newspaper. This anthology brings... -
Collected Essays: Volume III by Haym Soloveitchik 9781802075854
RRP: $33.53$30.01Continuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pietist movement of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz and its main literary work, Sefer Ḥasidim, and on the writings and personality of the Provençal... -
The Dual Truth, Volume II: Studies on Nineteenth-Century Modern Religious Thought and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century Jewish Philosophy by Ephraim Chamiel 9781644696125
RRP: $38.69$38.02This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish... -
The Dual Truth, Volume I: Studies on Nineteenth-Century Modern Religious Thought and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century Jewish Philosophy by Ephraim Chamiel 9781644696118
RRP: $38.69$37.50This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish... -
Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World, 1855-1913: "A Major Attack on Jewish Freedoms" by David Fraser 9781618117427
RRP: $127.70$122.16This is the first study of historical attempts by anti-animal cruelty groups to prosecute those involved in the killing of animals for food using the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita). It details cases from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and... -
Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America: Historical, Cultural, and Literary Perspectives by Yaron Harel 9781618116482
RRP: $118.67$113.69This collection of articles on Latin American Jews comprises a wide range of subjects, including comparative analyses of Latin American Jewry from the perspective of globalization and transnationalism, monographic studies on religious identities,... -
American Sociology and Holocaust Studies: The Alleged Silence and the Creation of the Sociological Delay by Adele Valeria Messina 9781644696620
RRP: $38.69$37.50Filled with new elements that challenge common scholarly theses, this book acquaints the reader with the "Jewish problem" of sociology and provides what this academic discipline urgently needs: a one-volume history of the Sociology of the Holocaust. The... -
Inner Religion in Jewish Sources: A Phenomenology of Inner Religious Life and Its Manifestation from the Bible to Hasidic Texts by Ron Margolin 9781644694299
RRP: $145.76$139.11Is Judaism essentially a religion of laws and commandments? Or do its sources reflect significant attempts at addressing the individual's inner life, existential crises and spiritual experiences?Inner Religion in Jewish Sources offers a comprehensive... -
Rabbi Marcus Jastrow and His Vision for the Reform of Judaism: A Study in the History of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century by Michal Galas 9781644690338
RRP: $32.24$30.66Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (1829-1903) was one of the most important figures of nineteenth-century Judaism, but is often neglected. This volume presents his life and his views on the reform of Judaism in the context of the changes and developments of Judaism... -
The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage by Yaron Harel 9781644690253
RRP: $118.67$113.17All twenty-two original articles in the current volume are based on lectures given at the conference "The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage", which was convened in September 2011, at the University of... -
Dynamics of Continuity and Change in Jewish Religious Life by Simcha Fishbane 9781618117137
RRP: $118.67$113.69While the oft-quoted saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same" seems to aptly describe the nature of social life, the reverse may be equally accurate: the more things stay the same, the more they change. Indeed, the...