Judaism

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881233704Author Barbara Ab SymonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

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Yehuda Bauer, one of the world's premier historians of the Holocaust, here presents an insightful overview and reconsideration of its history and meaning. Drawing on research he and other historians have done in recent years, he offers fresh opinions on...

Brutally honest, beautifully written, THE RABBI'S DAUGHTER is the compulsive story of a woman trying to find love, and struggling to make peace with her faith, her parents, and ultimately herself.Reva Mann was a wild child. Granddaughter of the Chief...

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...

The 19th century neo-Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen has provided significant underpinnings for understanding Judaism as a religion with a rational and universal character, as a religion of hope for the future. The eight essays selected for Reason...

The image of Jews in East Asia is a strange mixture of opposites, a paradoxical blend of admiration and mockery, identification and denial. This book explores what 'Jew' means to many East Asians, and whether it is anything that Jewish people themselves...

Throughout history the image of the non-Jew in Judaism has profoundly influenced the way in which Jews interact with non-Jews. It has also shaped the understanding that Jews have of their own identity, as it determines just what distinguishes them from...

In the Year 1096 presents a clear, highly readable chronicle of the events of 1096. Noted teacher and historian Robert Chazan brings readers to critical moments in Jewish history, illuminating the events themselves, their antecedents, and their...

A biochemist by profession, a polymath by inclination and erudition, Yeshayahu Leibowitz has been, since the early 1940s, one of the most incisive and controversial critics of Israeli culture and politics. His direct involvement, compelling polemics, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877285366Author William G. GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

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A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources. Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that...

While Christians and Jews have always been aware of their religious connections - historical community, overlapping theology, shared scriptures - that awareness has traditionally been infected by centuries of mutual suspicion and hostility. As this...

Abby Chava Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629950020Author Esther LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint P & R Publishing Co (Presbyterian & Reformed)Publisher P & R Publishing Co (Presbyterian &...

One of the key ways in which the traditional Jewish world of eastern Europe responded to the challenges of modernity in the nineteenth century was to change the system for educating young men so as to reinforce time-honoured, conservative values. The...

Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: Miles z"l and Chris Lerman; David Lerman and Shelley WallockThe bestselling guide to understanding Jewish traditions, now in paperbackThis is a comprehensive and...

The first comprehensive account of Protestant and Catholic attitudes toward Jews and Judaism in the European Reformation In this rich, wide-ranging, and meticulously researched account, Kenneth Austin examines the attitudes of various Christian groups in...

The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of 'Jewish culture'. This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organises and relates them from this vantage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881233544Author Barry H BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642939705Author Ruth R. WisseFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Wicked SonPublisher Wicked SonWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 157mm * 29mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524951Author Abraham Joshua HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 531g

Take your Pagan practice to new heights with this guide to Hermetic Qabalah from a Wiccan perspective. Author Jack Chanek shows you how to connect Qabalistic concepts to the Gods and the essential components of Wiccan ritual, making it simple to enhance...

What Maggy Whitehouse has discovered, over more than a quarter of a century of studying, teaching and writing books on Kabbalah, is that, used as a tool for inspiration, Kabbalah is a magical loom on which we can weave our healing, and from that healing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780028633879Author Benjamin BlechFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Alpha BooksPublisher Alpha BooksWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996143042Author Kevin J BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint Sifting and Winnowing BooksPublisher Sifting and Winnowing BooksWeight(grams)...

The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto is a journey into the mind and spirit of a sublime hasidic master in his moments of joy and tranquillity, and later, in his time of personal and communal...

The Jews of Khazaria explores the history and culture of Khazaria-a large empire in eastern Europe (located in present-day Ukraine and Russia) in the early Middle Ages noted for its adoption of the Jewish religion. The third edition of this modern...

There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and...

This book offers an account of the 4,000-year history of the Jews, from the ancient Patriarchs and Kings through to modern times. It also explores the Jewish faith, its traditional beliefs and practices, its festivals and celebrations, and the way of...

In 2020 and 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Gwrych Castle was familiar to the British public as the setting of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Lesser known is that, at the beginning of the Second World War, this once-grand country house...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905297221Author David RankineFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint AvaloniaPublisher AvaloniaWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879045002Author Lawrence KushnerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 152mm *...

Considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century, Abraham Heschel finds just the right words to startle the mind and delight the heart. He addresses and challenges the whole person, portraying that rarest of...

Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365475Author Paula VogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506438146Author E. P. SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493056794Author Evelyn Joseph GrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams)...