Judaism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Jewish Book Award (Jewish Thought) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9789653012493Author Simon PosnerFormat HardbackPage Count 750Imprint Koren...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881233414Author Sonja K PilzFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Jewish Thought) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780805242249Author Ruth R. WisseFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Schocken...

In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II - yet an...

Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain. In the course of this investigation Arthur Green...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573226943Author David A CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 384g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802828873Author John J. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719142Author Carolyn L KarcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033362Author Harold S. KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 192gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580230223Author Moshe MykoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 154mm * 103mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530049035Author Tarl WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Part of an ongoing series published in cooperation with "Index on Censorship" that deals with religion and free expression, "The Jewish Case" is distinctive in several ways. To begin with, even calling Judaism a religion is problematic: the breadth of...

What did ancient Jews believe about demons and angels? This question has long been puzzling, not least because the Hebrew Bible says relatively little about such transmundane powers. In the centuries after the conquests of Alexander the Great, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805241136Author Hayyim Nahman BialikFormat HardbackPage Count 920Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 2160gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556437946Author Gershon WinklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Jewish Book Award (Jewish Life) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781592643516Author Shlomo BrodyFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique, lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a...

This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. Makers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626651Author Rabbi Rami ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892817634Author Joel DobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228853008Author David WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578441160Author Matthew SchaikewitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Ammud PressPublisher Ammud PressWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's...

The Book of Ecclesiastes is part of the "wisdom literature" of the Bible. It concerns itself with universal philosophical questions rather than events in the history of Israel and in the Hebrews' covenant with God. Koheleth, the speaker in this book,...

This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world’s major religions. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure; accessible...

Conceptions of "the self" have received significant recent attention in philosophy, anthropology, and cultural history. Scholars argue that the introspective self of the modern West is a distinctive phenomenon that cannot be projected back onto...

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142196199Author Alfred J. KolatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101875186Author Graciela MochkofskyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015791Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743235853Author James L KugelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

How can you tell if a dog is happy? What breed of puppy should you get? Which is the biggest dog? Meet dozens of dogs, from designer pooches and working hounds to wily wolves and playful puppies. Lift the flaps to answer loads of fun questions. Find...

The first major history of the scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish origins The Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015722Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802825490Author John J. CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 1360Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question-and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everythingThough typically translated as "Jewish law," the term halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802870834Author Anathea E. Portier-YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

The scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish originsThe Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be...