Judaism

Vocal Rites and Broken Theologies deals with the central practices of the founder of Hasidism, Rabbi Israel Ba'al Shem Tov-known as the Besht-and its sources in the Safedian Kabbalah of Rabbi Moses Corovero. These include the loud pronunciation of the...

Arthur Szyk (pronounced ShickA") created his Haggadah on the eve of the Nazi occupation of his native Poland. In 1937, he relocated to London, carrying with him the 48 densely illustrated panels that depicted Jewish heroes like Moses and David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628723182Author Miriam ChaikinFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580238519Author Rabbi Lawrence KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674419308Author David Weiss HalivniFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807036198Author Rachel AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Holiday) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780991351220Author Shoshana HantmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Sidney...

One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the...

Central to both biblical narrative and rabbinic commentary, circumcision has remained a defining rite of Jewish identity, a symbol so powerful that challenges to it have always been considered taboo. Lawrence Hoffman seeks to find out why circumcision...

The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust collects narratives of Bulgarian Jews who survived the Holocaust. Through the analysis of eye-witness testimonies, archival documents, photographs, and researchers' investigations, the authors...

"Cohen and Eisen have written that rare work, a book that really matters! With clarity and grace, The Jew Within tells the story of how American Jews live and understand their Judaism over the span of their lives, in their families, and among their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648213192Author Pinchos ChalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Edward ChalkPublisher Edward ChalkWeight(grams) 152g

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.

Israeli Jews' response to and appropriation of Greek culture is the subject of the essays in this rich volume. Contributors provide evidence of Greek cultural influence in Judea and Galilee, from before the Maccabean revolt into the rabbinic period. They...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683363088Author Dr. Erica BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

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...

Pinchas Giller offers a wide-ranging overview of the most influential school of kabbalah in modernity, the Jerusalem kabbalists of the Beit El Yeshivah. The school is associated with the writings and personality of a charismatic Yemenite Rabbi, Shalom...

The Lost Matriarch offers a unique response to the sparse and puzzling biblical treatment of the matriarch Leah. Although Leah is a major figure in the book of Genesis, the biblical text allows her only a single word of physical description and two lines...

Hasidism is an influential spiritual revival movement within Judaism that began in the eighteenth century and continues to thrive today. One of the great classics of early Hasidism, The Light of the Eyes is a collection of homilies on the Torah, reading...

This collection - published here in English for the first time - brings together a number of political, personal and literary pieces by Israel's most celebrated novelist and litterateur. Topics covered include: an examination of the Israeli-Palestinian...

The Exile in the Maghreb entails the first attempt at describing the historical reality of the legal and social condition of the Jews in the Muslim countries of North Africa (principally Algeria and Morocco) over a thousand year period from the Middle...

This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of striking parallels and connections between Christian monastic texts (the Apophthegmata Patrum or 'The Sayings of the Desert Fathers') and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400048359Author Rabbi Joseph TelushkinFormat HardbackPage Count 559Imprint Bell TowerPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733813006Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In New Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews who don't...

Announcing a smart, daring, original new take on the Torah. Imagine: 54 leading young Jewish writers, artists, photographers, screenwriters, architects, actors, musicians, and graphic artists grappling with the first five books of the Bible and giving...

The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606081068Author Charles David IsbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231992Author Neil GillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

A Fun Take on "Judaism for Dummies" that Will Answer All Questions Wondered by the Goyim and Jewish People Alike! When the subject of religion comes up, people often get very shy and are worried about offending. Now, if there was only a book that covered...

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, the masterpiece of Kabbalah, features mystical interpretation of the Torah, from Genesis to...

The Bible is an enduring source of inspiration for the human heart and mind, and readers of Thinking about the Torah will be rewarded with an enhanced understanding of this great work's deeper meanings. Drawing on Western philosophy and particularly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736288016Author Jack HeartFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Jack HeartPublisher Jack HeartWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

In a society with so many distractions, how can American Jewish parents teach their children to know and appreciate what it means to be a Jew? Updated with current resource material, this wise and practical book provides help in finding and evaluating a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657222089Author Rabbi Rabbi Yehudah Lev AshlagFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Nehora PressPublisher Nehora PressWeight(grams) 439gDimensions(mm)...

The ancient world, much like our own, thrived on cultural diversity and exchange. The riches of this social reality are evident in the writings of Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman eras. Jewish authors drew on the wide range of Greek literary conventions...

In this book, Harris Lenowitz explores the fascinating history of Jewish messianic movements. Looking in detail at all of the Jewish messiahs about whom anything is known, he introduces each of these figures in turn, and offers extensive excerpts of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626316Author Rabbi Hanoch HechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images of the ascent, like the resort to...