Judaism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881236309Author Sue Levi ElwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

** The latest provocative book by the international bestselling author, Marek Halter ** Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, which decimated a people several thousand years old, after we swore in an almost unanimous voice, "Never again," the scourge...

This book presents a radical new interpretation of Britain's Chief Rabbis from Nathan Adler to Immanuel Jakobovits. It examines the theologies of the Chief Rabbis and seeks to reveal and explain their impact on the religious life of Anglo-Jewry.Elton...

Winner of the R.B.Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Even in antiquity, writers were intrigued by the origins of the people called Samaritans, living in the region of ancient Samaria (near modern Nablus). The Samaritans...

In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new...

This third volume of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition completes the Zohar's commentary on the book of Genesis. Here we find spiritual explorations of numerous biblical narratives, including Jacob's wrestling with the angel, Joseph's kidnapping by his...

Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests examines the impact of the Persian Sasanian context on the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon. What impact did the Persian Zoroastrian Empire, as both a real historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652299093Author Ken SpiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 536g

S. D. Goitein's magisterial five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world offers an unparalleled view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. Living under Muslim rule, the...

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed 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, from Genesis to...

Biblical in origin, the expression "eclipse of God" refers to the Jewish concept of hester panim, the act of God concealing his face as a way of punishing his disobedient subjects. Though this idea is deeply troubling for many people, in this book Martin...

The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416192625Author Aharon ShlezingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 132mm * 18mm

Maimonides ends each book of his legal code the Mishneh torah with a moral or philosophical reflection, in which he lifts his eyes, as it were, from purely halakhic concerns and surveys broader horizons. Menachem Kellner and David Gillis analyse these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898723417Author Alan UntermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Sussex Academic PressPublisher Liverpool University Press

Friday Night and Beyond is a practical guide to Jewish Sabbath observance. Lori Palatnik walks us through the celebration with an easy-to-follow "how-to" approach, allowing us to experience a traditional Shabbat. Common questions and concerns are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233088Author Jeffrey K. SalkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683360858Author Jay MichaelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736702604Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The first book to provide a comprehensive survey of the history of the Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora in the Hellenistic and early Roman period. Uniquely, it combines a study of all the important Jewish communities with a thorough examination of the...

What ancient graffiti reveals about the everyday lives of Jews in the Greek and Roman worldFew direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by...

An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly...

Today, many people from all faiths are exploring the Kabbalah. What were once controversial and esoteric teachings from medieval Jewish mystics now is becoming one of the latest spiritual trends sweeping across America. In the wake of this renewed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692375426Author Mitchell FirstFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Kodesh PressPublisher Kodesh PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

For understanding biblical Greek in context, the importance of the discoveries of papyri was recognized early in the twentieth century, while inscriptions by comparison were left unexplored. Those scholars who had intended to turn their attention to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197546505Author Professor of Politics Miguel VatterFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210491Author Rachel BialeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 285gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807404805Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957354002Author Shannon GonyouFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Msi PressPublisher Msi PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211207Author Elie WieselFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm *...

Music is an intrinsic part of Jewish expression, reaching back to the biblical "Song of the Sea," which appears in Exodus, and the Psalms composed by King David. Employing the tools of Jewish mysticism, Music and Kabbalah examines the spiritual...

An essential biography of one of the Bible's most influential booksDuring its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to important claims about God and humanity in Judaism and Christianity, and it plays a central role in contemporary...

These 54 lively and engaging plays (one for each weekly Torah portion) combine contemporary settings and vocabulary with stories that are faithful to the biblical text.Book InformationISBN 9780867050776Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count...

The Burden of Silence is the first monograph on Sabbateanism, an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, tracing it from its beginnings during the seventeenth century up to the present day. Initiated by the Jewish rabbi Sabbatai Sevi, the...

Founded in 1841, The Jewish Chronicle is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. A force for change, a forum for debate and a shaper of Jewish identity, it has played a central part in the development of modern Anglo-Jewry. More...

Based on interviews and oral histories, this collection of 89 stories is the first anthology of Hasidic stories about the Holocaust, and the first ever in which women play a large role.Book InformationISBN 9780195031997Author Yaffa EliachFormat...

This study reconstructs the history of a significant crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy all Jewish books in Renaissance Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580234627Author Nan Fink GefenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 152mm *...

Hasidism is one of the most important religious and social movements to have developed in Eastern Europe, and the most significant phenomenon in the religious, social and cultural life of the Jewish population in Eastern Europe from the eighteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733813082Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...