Judaism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897448496Author Rav Michael LaitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams)...

Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC DCM was Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II. Derrick fought in five campaigns, won the highest medals for bravery, and died of wounds sustained while leading his men in the war's last stages. His career reached...

In Conceiving Israel, Gwynn Kessler examines the peculiar fascination of the rabbis of late antiquity with fetuses-their generation, development, nurturance, and even prenatal study habits-as expressed in narrative texts preserved in the Palestinian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140147957Author David J. WolpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 174gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...

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...

An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present That the human body can be the object not only of biological study but also of historical consideration and cultural criticism is...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683361848Author Rabbi Marc D. AngelFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

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

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in the societies these texts describe? What about non-Muslims,...

Nine rich and masterful readings of the Talmud by the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. Between 1963 and 1975, Levinas delivered these commentaries at the annual Talmudic colloquia of a...

The last hasidic rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto explores many facets of spiritual growth and character development.About the AuthorThis text was translated from the original Hebrew text of Chovat Ha Talmidim by Rabbi Micha Odenheimer. He studied in Yeshivah...

The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684580613Author Yosef Hayim YerushalmiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Brandeis University PressPublisher Brandeis University Press

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...

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 9780973231595Author Rav Michael LaitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897448519Author Rabbi Baruch Ashlag, (The Rabash)Format HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah...

As the Bible tells us, ancient Israel's neighbours worshipped a wide variety of Gods. It is now widely accepted that the Israelites' God, Yahweh, must have originated as among these many, before assuming the role of the one true God of monotheism. Mark...

The Blackwell Reader in Judaism introduces Judaism in its own words, affording readers a direct encounter with this ancient and enduring faith.About the AuthorJacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College. He has nine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780836112337Author Millard C. LindFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Herald Press,U.S.Publisher Herald PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383674Author Derek TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619702622Author Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1984Imprint Hendrickson Publishers IncPublisher Hendrickson Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973231557Author Rabbi Rav Yehuda AshlagFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah...

Written to help married and soon-to-be-married couples of all ages learn and understand the laws that govern Jewish marital life, this guide also places a particular emphasis on achieving an understanding of the interplay between Jewish law and women's...

Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883), a crusader for antislavery, women's rights and the downtrodden, rose to prominence in his day as the most ardent and persuasive defender of Mormons' religious liberty. Drawing on extensive, newly available archives, this text...

Book InformationISBN 9780814714430Author Jeremy CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University Press