Judaism

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

Historical accounts of Jewish violence--particularly against Christians--have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. Others have discounted, dismissed, or simply ignored the evidence, often...

Traditional Jewish religious belief speaks of a divinely revealed, perfect text, authoritatively expounded. The question this book addresses is one with which the author has struggled all his life: in the light of historical criticism, advances in...

Food often defines societies and even civilizations. Through particular commensality restrictions, groups form distinct identities: those with whom 'we' eat ('us') and those with whom 'we' cannot eat ('them'). This identity is enacted daily, turning the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316955140Author Hermon WoukFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 469g

The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the study of religion. Drawing on close readings of Susan Taubes's writings,...

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 9780951800249Author Jeremy GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

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...

How can I lead others with authority and kindness? How can I strengthen my self-control? How can I balance work and family? How can I get along with difficult coworkers? How can I best relate to people in need? Enter the Talmudic study house with...

One of the leading scholars of Hasidism and modern Jewish theology has brought together and translated a wide selection of the Torah teachings of the Sefat Emet-one of the last great masters of Polish Hasidism. Green's personal insightful commentary on...

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...

Does modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred?How can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, anachronistic or corrupted?Does sexual obsession have a textual origin, and is it woman's destiny to be...

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...

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of...

The Israeli kibbutz, the twentieth century's most interesting social experiment, is in the throes of change. Instrumental in establishing the State of Israel, defending its borders, creating its agriculture and industry, and setting its social norms, the...

For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the essays in this volume show, the theologians and practitioners of Judaism have a long history of wrestling with moral questions,...

"An engaging introduction to the tortuous plight faced by exiled conversos in Amsterdam and their methods of response. Choicet; In this skillful and well-argued book Miriam Bodian explores the communal history of the Portuguese Jews . . . who settled in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802873156Author Loren T. StuckenbruckFormat PaperbackPage Count 427Imprint 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 9789653015692Author Rabbi Adin Even-Israel SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

A word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, "diaspora" has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical event of displacement, the subsequent geographical scattering of peoples, or the conditions of alienation abroad and yearning...

Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason, Out of the Sources of Judaism (first published in 1919) is widely taken to be the greatest work in Jewish philosophy and religious thought since Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed. It is at once a Jewish book and a...

With tariff disputes, ethical concerns and digital currencies dominating the news, international finance continues to engage national debate. As globalization expands, organizations must not only manage the advantages that ensue but also their exposure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978053567Author Nineveh ShadrachFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ishtar PublishingPublisher Ishtar PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897448168Author Rav Michael LaitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams)...

An innovative and poignant exploration of diverse Jewish communities throughout the diaspora. It's been two thousand years after most Jews were exiled from Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land, and two generations since the Holocaust led to the...

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has captivated readers ever since it emerged in Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in a lyrical Aramaic, the Zohar, a masterpiece of Kabbalah, features mystical interpretation of the Torah, rabbinic...

Explore themes of nature and the land within the Passover seder.From the unassuming matzah that reveals the simplicity of earth, wheat, and water, to the first fruits of the soil that the Israelites offered in gratitude, the earth has always been at...

In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127413Author Leah VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 205gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 136mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of San Diego Book Awards (History) 2007 and San Diego Book Awards (History) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780802844248Author David Noel FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage...

The best-selling author of The Essential Kabbalah now offers readers the best introduction to the Zohar. The splendor and enigmatic appeal of the Zohar, the major text of the Jewish mystical tradition, has never intrigued readers of all faiths more...

Based on the same format and design as the Torah volumes, Jonah provides a critical line-by-line commentary of the biblical text, which is presented in its original Hebrew, complete with vocalization and cantillation marks, as well as the JPS English...

In 1908, Solomon Schechter-discoverer of the Cairo Geniza and one of the founders of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America-published his groundbreaking essay on the city of Safed (Tzfat) during the sixteenth century. In the essay, Schechter pointed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934730041Author Rivka CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210231Author Nahum M. SarnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 300g

Sephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They enjoyed a renaissance in these lands until their expulsion from Spain in 1492, when they settled in the countries along the Mediterranean, throughout the Ottoman Empire, in the Balkans, and...

This volume of essays presents a compelling and comprehensive analysis of the intriguing issue of the gift of the land of Israel and the fate of the Canaanites as presented in diverse biblical sources. Jewish thought has long grappled with the moral and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592445189Author Professor of Religion Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940646636Author Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Rossel BooksPublisher Rossel BooksWeight(grams) 245g