Judaism

Questions of vocation and character formation become important to students as they continue to receive higher education. Jesus Ben Sira combines secular wisdom from Near Eastern wisdom sources and divine revelations from the Hebrew Bible to create the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609803783Author Laibl WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue, the first study in any language to provide a complete overview of Buber's thought, remains the definitive guide to the full range of his work and the starting point for all modern Buber scholarship. Maurice S. Friedman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Books for a Better Life Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9781573228565Author Rachel Naomi RemenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016552Author Rinat GilboaFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

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...

Nefesh HaTzimtzum provides the single most comprehensive and accessible presentation of the teachings and worldview of the Vilna Gaon's primary student, Rabbi Chaim Volozhin. It is focused on Rabbi Chaim's magnum opus, Nefesh HaChaim, a work that has...

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths...

A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are:...

Israel Shahak was a remarkable man. Born in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of Belsen, Shahak arrived in Israel in 1945. Brought up under Jewish Orthodoxy and Hebrew culture, he consistently opposed the expansion of the borders of Israel from 1967. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653011816Author Koren Publishers Jerusalem, Ltd.Format PaperbackPage Count 1312Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592643011Author Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

A unique compilation of contemporary women's midrashim. Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash, is the first-ever English edition of a historic collection of midrashim composed by Israeli women, which has been long-anticipated by multiple American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035602Author Louis JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Gideon Bohak gives a pioneering account of the broad history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period. It is based both on ancient magicians' own compositions and products in Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek, and on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671622619Author Dennis PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 241gDimensions(mm)...

This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802867018Author William G. DeverFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint 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 9781888767605Author Ted AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dragonhawk PublishingPublisher Dragonhawk PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015838Author Steinsaltz AdinFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories - Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. These ancient tales illuminate some of our most enduring and profound...

'...detailed and fair.' - The Spectator 'An exhaustive, impressive achievement.' - The Tablet As a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their institutions competent and mature. And yet within Jewish life in Britain there is a pervading sense of...

Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture? Paul's famous formulation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995603554Author Simon Amadeus PillarioFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Word for Word Bible ComicsPublisher Word for Word Bible ComicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506481166Author Anne PerezFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780943358482Author Abraham Joshua HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Aurora PressPublisher Aurora PressWeight(grams) 282g

An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many...

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause...

"A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended." -Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was...

Thorough and meticulously researched, this study is based on a comprehensive reading of philosophical arguments drawn from all the major Jewish sources, published and unpublished, from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486432229Author A.E.Waite A.E.WaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging.In 1977, after serving as a leading activist for the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration from there, Natan Sharansky was arrested...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644544Author Frank, YitzchakImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 218mm * 13mm

When the young American Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller in the garden of a grand hotel in Switzerland, he is struck by her beauty, but slightly unsettled by her open ways and her flirtatiousness. Undeterred by this and by...

This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influednce upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807060100Author Viktor E. FranklFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 146mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061374982Author Joseph TelushkinFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This...

In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish-even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556436499Author Eliahu KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...