Judaism

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...

Although Paul's writings have been intensively studied by Christian theologians, they have been dismissed by Jewish scholars as the meditations of an antagonistic apostate who broke completely with his Jewish past. In this revisionist account of Paul's...

Your Name Is Your Blessing: Hebrew Names and Their Mystical Meanings represents the first time that the secrets of the Kabbalah, the mystical teachings of Jewish spiritual leaders, were introduced to the general public for the purpose of explaining the...

In this book, Nicholas de Lange examines the basic elements of Judaism, both as a religion and a way of life. Assuming no prior knowledge, the book opens with an account of the Jewish people and the main lines of its history. The following eight chapters...

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...

This volume is the first comprehensive anthology of early Yiddish literature (from its beginnings in the twelfth century to the dawn of modern Yiddish in the mid-eighteenth century) for more than one hundred years. It includes the broad range of genres...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621388036Author Friedrich WeinrebFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620403030Author William G GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Filled with practical advice as well as history, Blu Greenberg's book is a comprehensive guide to the joys and complexities of running a modern Jewish home. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household is a modern, comprehensive guide covering virtually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946611024Author Joey WeisenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Hadar PressPublisher Hadar PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 23mm

New NEC4 Contract launched June 2043Book InformationISBN 9780727762191Author NEC NECFormat PaperbackImprint ICE PublishingPublisher ICE Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580234948Author Arthur GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

The works of Philo of Alexandria, a slightly older contemporary of Jesus and Paul, constitute an essential source for the study of Judaism and the rise of Christianity. They are also of extreme importance for understanding the Greek philosophy of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580236287Author Rabbi Bradley Shavit ArtsonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

Five Biblical Portraits is a sequel to Elie Weisel's Messengers of God; in this work Elie Wiesel illuminates Joshua, Saul, Elijah, Jeremiah, and Jonah through sensitive readings of the scriptures as well as the Talmudic and Hasidic sources. As a sequel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986119613Author Samuel AvitalFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Le Centre Du SilencePublisher Le Centre Du SilenceWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784618605Author Bethan GwanasFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580230735Author Rabbi Lawrence KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But...

The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism-all of rabbinic law, from ancient to modern times, is based on the Talmud, and the Talmud, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. But the Mishnah is also an elusive document; its sources and setting...

Pierre Rosenberg, the distinguished art historian and director of the Musee du Louvre, has long admired and studied both paintings and drawings. This dual interest may seem commonplace but is in fact highly unusual: specialists in the field of drawing...

The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to...

Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626026Author Tirzah FirestoneFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556435423Author Eliahu KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

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...

The Orthodox Jewish tradition affirms that Jewish exile will end with the coming of the Messiah. How, then, does Orthodoxy respond to the political realization of a Jewish homeland that is the state of Israel? In this study, the author probes Orthodoxy's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805039276Author Rabbi David J WolpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 136g

Placing himself within the context of the Gospel of Matthew, Neusner imagines himself in a dialogue with Jesus of Nazareth and pays him the supreme Judaic gesture of respect: making a connection with him through an honest debate about the nature of God's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951800249Author Jeremy GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233279Author Rabbi Dov Peretz ElkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm)...

With biographical information on the 400 authors of the Talmud and hundreds of anecdotes about these sages as recorded in the Talmud itself, this collection is both an excellent and practical guide for students of the Talmud as well as a fascinating read...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873340618Author Saul LiebermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint JTS PressPublisher JTS PressWeight(grams) 649g

How does this Jewish history book differ from all others? Instead of burdening the reader with endless details about every single aspect of Jewish history, Pasachoff and Littman provide essential information, easily digested by readers of all ages, that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683366706Author Barry W. HoltzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015807Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Recipient of the Prize of the Minister of Science, Culture, and Sport [of the State of Israel] for classical literature for the year 5762 [2001] The commentary, which accompanies the Hebrew biblical text and the JPS translation, approaches the Book of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383049Author Michael J. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

A revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to assert the value of rabbinic doubt in the face of messianic certaintyIn 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that...