Judaism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580232623Author Rabbi Lawrence A. HoffmanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

Published just in time for Passover 5779 (2019), this unauthorised and hilarious Haggadah from the legendary Jewdas collective propagates a multitude of dangerous ideas such as workers' rights, liberation of the oppressed and the dismantling of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653019126Author Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackPage Count 1436Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 1542gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A work widely esteemed as his magnum opus, Sabbatai ?evi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire...

In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past seventeen years, the Bolshevik leader had lived in exile, moving between Europe's many "Russian...

The legal profession needs more than law. Whether you are a student, a law school, a university, a law firm or an in-house legal team, The Legal Team of the Future is the definitive guide to understanding and building the holistic skills required of...

A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movementHasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Ba'al Shem Tov, but it was only after his death in 1760 that a movement...

The book provides a comprehensive history of the third-largest Jewish community in Britain and fills an acknowledged gap in both Jewish and urban historiography. Bringing together the latest research and building on earlier local studies, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738600526Author Thomas RFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Defender PublishingPublisher Defender PublishingWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645381Author Joshua BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 147mm *...

Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515433309Author Josephus FlaviusFormat HardbackPage Count 820Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 1256gDimensions(mm)...

This is fantastic! It's a game-changer for b'nai mitzvah, their parents and teachers. Salkin's fresh insights remind us how transformative this experience can be.-Rabbi Aaron Miller, Washington Hebrew CongregationFor too many Jewish young people, bar/bat...

Relations between Christians and Jews over the past two thousand years have been characterised to a great extent by mutual distrust and by Christian discrimination and violence against Jews. In recent decades, however, a new spirit of dialogue has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573226943Author David A CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 384g

In the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram--Abraham, a father of many nations. With this name and his Covenant, Abraham would become the patriarch of three of the world's major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Connected by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645374Author Dov SingerFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 135mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971736Author Judith ShulevitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

'In another original, challenging and deeply learned book, Margaret Barker further consolidates her revolutionary rereading of the background of the New Testament. A welcome study, enlarging the mind and the imagination' Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of...

The most comprehensive Zionist collection ever published, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland-Then, Now, Tomorrow sheds light on the surprisingly diverse and shared visions for realizing Israel as a democratic Jewish state. Building on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578853673Author Rabbi Yacov BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Gerber's Miracle Publishers LLCPublisher Gerber's Miracle Publishers...

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies is part of a major new series of Oxford Handbooks. The volume on Jewish Studies reflects the aim of the series to produce distinctive and original surveys of today's interests and directions in the Humanities and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626828Author Tirzah FirestoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802840097Author Maxine L. GrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint 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 9781737446170Author Thomas DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Clemens & Blair, LLCPublisher Clemens & Blair, LLC

The Triumph of Life is Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s magnum opus—a narrative of the relationship between God and humanity as expressed in the Jewish journey through modernity, the Holocaust, the creation of Israel, and the birth of Judaism’s next era...

In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Man's Search for Meaning tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Viktor E. Frankl's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719142Author Carolyn L KarcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)...

One aim of this series is to dispel the intimidation readers feel when faced with the work of difficult and challenging thinkers. Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides (1138-1204), represents the high point of Jewish rationalism in the middle ages...

Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891-1916 is a treasure trove for the study of Stein's youth and early adulthood, her approach to writing autobiographically, and her intricate relationship with historical influences of her time and place. Through...

A brilliant portrait of a beloved and controversial figure in twentieth-century spirituality. Simone Weil (1906-1943) was a writer and philosopher who devoted her life to a search for ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657222041Author Rabbi Rabbi Yehudah Lev AshlagFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Nehora PressPublisher Nehora PressWeight(grams) 832gDimensions(mm)...

In this moving and engaging book by one of France’s few female rabbis and leader of the country’s Liberal Jewish Movement, Delphine Horvilleur recounts eleven stories of loss, mourning, and consolation, collected during years spent caring for the dying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451207012Author Max DimontFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644636Author Rabbi Joseph B SoloveitchikFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830847150Author Os GuinnessFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 236mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015821Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

At a time when loneliness and isolation have reached unprecedented levels, it has never been more important for Christians to embrace the practice of hospitality. For many, it is a lost art - a practice we have forgotten, neglected or distorted beyond...