Judaism

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...

More than half a century after the Holocaust, in countries where Jews make up just a tiny fraction of the population, products of Jewish culture (or what is perceived as Jewish culture) have become very viable components of the popular public domain. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592643110Author Meir TamariFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint MaggidPublisher Koren Publishers Jerusalem

Originally published in 1987, this book explores the emergence, structure and ultimate fate of the Viennese Jewish community. Thirteen eminent specialists on Viennese social, political and cultural history combine to cover a wide variety of topics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492941309Author Julie Leiman WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882145662Author Gershom Gerhard ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Spring Publications,U.S.Publisher Spring Publications,U.S.

From one of the leading historians of the Jewish past comes a stunning look into a previously unexamined dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the late sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII instituted a momentous reform of Western...

Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That...

A major Conservative movement leader of our time, Elliot N. Dorff provides a personal, behind-the-scenes guide to the evolution of Conservative Jewish thought and practice over the last half century. His candid observations concerning the movement's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016231Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891785368Author Timothy ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Fons Vitae,USPublisher Fons Vitae,USWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Through an innovative synthesis of narrative critique, oral-formulaic study, folkloric research, and literary analysis, Kristen H. Lindbeck reads all the Elijah narratives in the Babylonian Talmud and details the rise of a distinct, quasi-angelic figure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999378915Author Devorah FastagFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615699912Author Eliezer Lipa (Leonard) MoskowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 652Imprint New Davar PublicationsPublisher New Davar PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805242362Author Melvin KonnerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 134mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231572Author Daniel PolishFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm...

Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, The New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish...

Throughout the history of research on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the investigation of religious sacrifice has often been neglected. This book examines the views of sacrifice in the non-biblical sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls, through exploration of the historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947857483Author Daniel a KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Kodesh PressPublisher Kodesh PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

For some twenty years from the late 1960s, and thereafter following a brief pause, representatives of British Jewry's religious orientations held closed-door meetings at the Chief Rabbi's residence in attempts to bridge their communal and halachic...

Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, it is said, Judaism endorses a tradition of protest as first expressed in the biblical stories of Abraham, Job, and Jeremiah. In...

2022 Top Ten Book from Academy of Parish Clergy The teachings of the great twentieth-century Jewish thinker Martin Buber empower us to enter a spiritual dimension that often passes unnoticed in the daily routine. In A Year with Martin Buber, the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644674Author Rahel BerkovitsFormat HardbackPage Count 406Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 150mm...

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A leading expert provides an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism todayAmerican Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016224Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

An unprecedented annotated anthology of the most important Jewish mystical works, A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader is designed to facilitate teaching these works to all levels of learners in adult education and college classroom settings. Daniel M...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692681695Author Bezalel NaorFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Kodesh PressPublisher Kodesh PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

The essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Frank Moore Cross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Canaanite culture from which it emerged; explores the tension between the mythic and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781095658451Author Yaacov David ShulmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. Without Jewish emigrants from North Africa, Israel's dynamic growth would simply not have occured. North African Jews, also called...

The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from biblical times to the present. By treating the Hebrew Bible's accounts of Israel as one of many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953829467Author Gabriella SpitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 246mm *...

This is the only complete English translation of the classic Jewish text known as Ein Yaakov. Ein Yaakov is a collection of all the agaddah (the non-legal) material of the Talmud, compiled by Rabbi Yaakov ibn Chaviv, the fifteenth century talmudist...

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...

In Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate, Professor William Nicholls, a former minister in the Anglican Church and the founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, presents his stunning research, stating that...

The Kabbalah is divided into three branches-the theoretical, the meditative, and the practical. While many books, both in Hebrew and English, have explored the theoretical Kabbalah, virtually nothing has been published regarding the meditative methods of...

Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives provides a philosophical and psychological interpretation of the major symbols of the theosophical Kabbalah. It shows that the Kabbalah, particularly as it is expressed in the school...

For five decades prior to his death in 1993, Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik was the unchallenged leader of modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States. His understanding of both traditional Judaism and secular philosophy shaped two generations of...

Frumspeak examines the unique linguistic habits of Orthodox, native-born Americans. This book seeks to draw comparisons with parallel phenomena of Jewish linguistic creation including Yiddish and Ladino and reaches into the linguistic consciousness of...