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Martin Buber: Prophet of Religious Secularism by Donald Moore 9780823216390
£73.38In this study of Martin Buber's life and work, Donald Moore focuses in on Buber's central message about what it means to be a human being and a person of faith.Book InformationISBN 9780823216390Author Donald MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint... -
The Modern Jewish Experience: A Reader's Guide by Jack Wertheimer 9780814792612
£90.28The pace of scholarly research and academic publication in fields of Judaica has quickened dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. The major consumers and producers of this new scholarship are found in Jewish Studies programs that have... -
Jewish Responses to Modernity: New Voices in America and Eastern Europe by Eli Lederhendler 9780814750841
£89.88Facing the dizzying array of changes commonly referred to as modernity, Jews in 19th-century Eastern Europe and early 20th-century America reflected the crises and opportunities of the modern world most eloquently in their speech, culture, and literature... -
To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico by Stanley M. Hordes 9780231129367
£98.34In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and abstained from eating pork. Puzzling over the matter, Hordes realized that these practices might very well have... -
Going Rogue: At Hewbrew School by Casey Breton 9781784385392
RRP: £12.99£9.32Ten-year-old Avery Green loves science. He loves football. He is crazy about Star Wars. But Hebrew school? No, thank you. Avery would rather have his arms sliced off with a lightsaber than sit through one more day of Hebrew School. He's only asked about... -
Judaism by Jane A. C. West 9781408104354
RRP: £7.99£7.58This series looks at the journey of life as seen by members of the six world religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism. Each title focuses on the significant events of birth, coming of age, marriage and death in the... -
God-Talk: The Heart of Judaism by David Novak 9781538187142
RRP: £18.99£17.65David Novak, one of the most distinguished Jewish theologians in the world, offers a new interpretation of how the Jewish people and the Jewish tradition talk about God. What does the Torah say about God? How does the God of the Torah talk about Godself?... -
Joshua and Judges in Yiddish Verse: Four Early Modern Epics. An Annotated Edition by Oren Cohen Roman 9783110740615
£40.85This book offers annotated editions of four distinct sixteenth-century Yiddish epic poems, all preserved in single copies. Two of them retell the narrative found in the book of Joshua, and two relate the events described in the book of Judges. As typical... -
One Hundred Great Jewish Books: Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman 9781933346311
RRP: £12.99£11.82Over many centuries, Judaism has consistently demonstrated a particular fondness for books and literacy, and this guide allows readers to listen in on the Jewish conversation across many centuries -- from the Hebrew Bible and the rabbinic masterpieces to... -
Rites and Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult by Saul M. Olyan 9780691029481
£85.32Good and evil, clean and unclean, rich and poor, self and other. The nature and function of such binary oppositions have long intrigued scholars in such fields as philosophy, linguistics, classics, and anthropology. From the opening chapters of Genesis,... -
Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television by Jonathan C. Friedman 9781793640154
RRP: £89.00£77.95Haunted Laughter addresses whether it is appropriate to use comedy as a literary form to depict Adolf Hitler, The Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Guided by existing theories of comedy and memory and through a comprehensive examination of comedic film and... -
Judging Jewish Identity in the United States by Annalise E Glauz-Todrank 9781666923032
RRP: £93.00£81.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666923032Author Annalise E Glauz-TodrankFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
What Do Jews Believe? Edward Kessler 9781862078628
RRP: £6.99£4.84There is a story about a Jew who travels from Israel to the United States. When he returns, he tells his friend some of the amazing things he has seen. 'I met a Jew who had grown up in a yeshiva and knew large sections of the Talmud by heart. I met a Jew... -
No Fixed Abode: A Jewish Odyssey to Freedom in Africa by Peter Fraenkel 9781850436263
RRP: £55.00£54.74Peter Fraenkel here gives a vivid account of a childhood in a middle-class, non-observant Jewish family in Nazi Germany, forced to emigrate to Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) in 1939. Here the contrast could hardly be greater, from persecuted Jew, to... -
History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Remembering the Teacher of Righteousness by Travis B. Williams 9781108493338
RRP: £120.00£107.99The nature and reliability of the ancient sources are among the most important issues in the scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is noteworthy, therefore, that scholars have grown increasingly skeptical about the value of these materials for... -
Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud Ayelet Hoffmann Libson (Harvard Law School, Massachusetts) 9781108427494
RRP: £90.00£81.03This book examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. Based on close readings of rabbinic texts from Palestine and Babylonia, Ayelet... -
Conflicting Attitudes to Conversion in Judaism, Past and Present by Isaac Sassoon 9781108416306
RRP: £93.99£84.56Evidence suggests that conversion originated during the Babylonian Exile. Around the same time, biological genealogy was gaining popularity, especially among priests whose legitimacy was becoming increasingly defined by 'pure' pedigree. When the... -
Rabbis, Language and Translation in Late Antiquity Willem F. Smelik (University College London) 9781107026216
RRP: £125.00£113.92Exposed to multiple languages as a result of annexation, migration, pilgrimage and its position on key trade routes, the Roman Palestine of Late Antiquity was a border area where Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic dialects were all in common use. This... -
Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud by Dr Michal Bar-Asher Siegal 9781107023017
RRP: £94.99£85.44This 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... -
Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud: Christian and Sasanian Contexts in Late Antiquity by Yishai Kiel 9781107155510
RRP: £93.99£84.56Within this close textual analysis of the Babylonian Talmud, Yishai Kiel explores rabbinic discussions of sex in light of cultural assumptions and dispositions that pervaded the cultures of late antiquity and particularly the Iranian world. By... -
An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism by Francoise Mirguet 9781107146266
RRP: £93.99£84.96In this book, Francoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of Late Antiquity. Pity and compassion, in this corpus, comprised a hybrid of Hebrew, Greek, and Roman constructions; depending on... -
God and Politics in Esther by Yoram Hazony 9781107132054
RRP: £94.99£80.77A political crisis erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics, and a Jewish insider goes rogue, determined to save her people at all costs. God and Politics in Esther explores politics and faith. It is about an era in which the prophets have... -
Boundaries of Loyalty: Testimony against Fellow Jews in Non-Jewish Courts by Saul J. Berman 9781107090651
RRP: £67.99£60.78Talmudic legislation prescribed penalty for a Jew to testify in a non-Jewish court, against a fellow Jew, to benefit a gentile - for breach of a duty of loyalty to a fellow Jew. Through close textual analysis, Saul Berman explores how Jewish jurists... -
Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash by Richard Hidary 9781107177406
RRP: £94.99£85.84Training in rhetoric - the art of persuasion - formed the basis of education in the Roman Empire. The classical intellectual world centered around the debate between philosophers, who boasted knowledge of objective reality, and sophists, who could debate... -
Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Volume 2 by Graham Davies 9780521829991
£105.04This is the sequel to the first volume of Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus and Concordance, published in 1991. It contains some 750 inscriptions from the Old Testament period which were mainly published for the first time between 1990 and 2000. Some... -
Hermeneutique et bricolage: Territoires et frontieres de la Tradition dans le judaisme- Actes du colloque de Bucarest, 27-28 octobre 2006 by Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert 9783039114566
RRP: £66.10£57.51Le volume reunit les Actes du colloque de Bucarest ayant eu pour theme la notion de Tradition dans le judaisme (27-28 octobre 2006). Ce choix federateur a ete egalement leste d'un defi theorique marquant l'originalite de ce colloque : la valorisation des... -
Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture by Elisha Russ-Fishbane 9781800348516
£50.45This is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. Rigorously researched and accessibly written, it will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines as well as to the broader... -
The Wisdom of Judaism Dan Cohn-Sherbok 9781851682287
RRP: £9.99£6.41For nearly four thousand years the wisdom of Judaism has supported people through exile and suffering, good times and bad. Founded on the universal principles of justice, integrity and righteousness, its message is as relevant today as ever, and has... -
Teach Them Diligently by Bonnie K. Stevens
RRP: £17.99£16.15This hardcover teacher resource explores the intriguing parallels between the Jewish holidays and the educator's year helping educators understand how the school year can be framed and shaped by the Jewish holidays.Book InformationISBN... -
Three Times Chai: 54 Rabbis Tell Their Favorite Stories by Laney Katz Becker
RRP: £18.99£12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874418101Author Laney Katz BeckerFormat HardbackImprint Behrman House PublishingPublisher Behrman House PublishingWeight(grams) 472g -
The Teacher Training Manual by Behrman House
RRP: £8.99£8.75This 64-page workbook will help principals and supervisors train teachers to build their skills and confidence in the classroom.Book InformationISBN 9780874418118Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S.Publisher... -
Angles of Vision: A Memior of My Lives by Philip M. Klutznick
£28.40The richness and variety of his pursuits are compelling features of this memoir in which Philip Klutznick displays his talent as a superb storyteller. Born into a modest home of immigrant parents in Kansas City, Missouri, Mr. Klutznick recalls his very... -
The JGirl's Teacher's and Parent's Guide by Miriam P. Polis
RRP: £6.99£6.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580232258Author Miriam P. PolisFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 176g -
Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner by Harriet Murav
£72.46Identity Theft focuses on the life and writing of Avraam Uri Kovner. As one of the fiery Jewish nihilists of his generation, variously a critic, author, and bank embezzler, Kovner embodies the problem of identity as a series of translations across... -
Inside Intermarriage: A Christian Partner's Journey Raising a Jewish Family by Jim Keen
RRP: £11.99£10.08Share in one father's exploration of the challenges and blessings of living in an interfaith family. Includes a discussion guide to help couples consider how to resolve dilemmas around holiday celebrations and family relationships.Book InformationISBN... -
Ten and Twenty-Two: A Journey through the Paths of Wisdom by Michael Jacobs
£87.26It is not generally known that there is a clear connection between Kabbalistic tradition and the magic cards known as the Tarot. Michael Jacobs has used Kabbalistic images to create a full color Tarot deck. He includes quotes from early Kabbalistic... -
ALEF Bet Quest Script Writing Workbook by Behrman House
£6.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874418293Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S.Publisher Behrman House Inc.,U.S. -
Floating Takes Faith: Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World by Rabbi David J Wolpe
RRP: £18.99£16.50We are taught to study, to learn, and to let ourselves grow Jewishly. But where does being the "people of the book" get us in the real world?David Wolpe's collection of essays responds to this question by exploring how Jewish values, such as scholarship... -
It All Begins with a Date: Jewish Concerns about Intermarriage by Alan Silverstein
£44.70The former president of the Rabbinical Assembly addresses the Conservative movement's approach to interdating and intermarriage.Book InformationISBN 9781568215426Author Alan SilversteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Jason Aronson Inc... -
Concepts of Class in Ancient Israel by Mark R. Sneed
£61.13This anthology exemplifies the wide variety of definitions of 'class' employed by biblical scholars today, with analyses seeking either to reconstruct the stratification of ancient Israel or to uncover the class interests embedded in the biblical text...