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This 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...

Apologies 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

This 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...

The 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...

Apologies 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 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...

Share 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...

It 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...

Apologies 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.

We 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...

The 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...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807410608Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

Finding a Home for the Soul is a collection of interviews with people who have searched for greater meaning in life and have discovered Judaism's carefully wrought understanding and nurturing of the human spirit, manifested in ritual, prayer, and values...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580236256Author Rabbi Baruch HaLeviFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874418569Author Lauren KurlandFormat PaperbackImprint Behrman House PublishingPublisher Behrman House PublishingWeight(grams) 177g

Zohar, or "brilliant light," is the central text of Kabbalah. In Jewish mystical tradition, it is the meeting of midrash (storytelling that expands on events in the Bible) and myth. This selection offers original translations of eight of the most well...

A work entitled the "Book of Giants" figures in every list of the Manichaean "canon" preserved from antiquity. Both the nature of this work and the intellectual baggage of the third-century Persian prophet to whom it is ascribed remained unknown to...

For many years Hannah Arendt (1906--1975) has been the object of intense debate. After her bitter critiques of Zionism, which seemed to nullify her early involvement with that movement, and her extremely controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Arendt...

The peril and promise of contemporary Jewish identity.Book InformationISBN 9780800631598Author Marc H. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg FortressWeight(grams) 260g

This book shows how institutional religion and the religiosity of political and cultural life provide a necessary dimension to Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. Lived religion surrounded Benjamin, whose upper-middle-class...

How do young Israelis and Germans communicate about National Socialism and the Holocaust? In this collection of essays, authors from both societies elaborate on the past, their present and, respectively, their identity. They ponder various switches of...

This book explores the emergence of the fundamental political concepts of medieval Jewish thought, arguing that alongside the well known theocratic elements of the Bible there exists a vital tradition that conceives of politics as a necessary and...

The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity examines the fate of Jews living in the Mediterranean Jewish diaspora after the Roman emperor Constantine threw his patronage to the emerging orthodox (Nicene) Christian churches. By the fifth century, much...

How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of...

The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity's eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul's Epistle to...

Jonathan Garb's A History of Kabbalah: From the Early Modern Period to the Present Day is a lucid and sophisticated account of the multifaceted nature of Jewish mysticism, focusing on its development from the spiritual revolution that took place in Safed...

Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human...

Atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust were photographed more intensely that any before. In the time since the images were taken they have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and...

In the past quarter-century, David Hartman has established himself as one of the pre-eminent religious and Jewish thinkers of our age. Refusing to be limited by the traditional focus on metaphysics and theology, Hartman has developed a religious...

Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy reveals the happiness that awaits us if we strive for real spirituality. The stories are about pious rabbis and humble tailors, about dancing, singing, laughing, and crying, but their common denominator is always joyous ecstasy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556437946Author Gershon WinklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II - yet an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626651Author Rabbi Rami ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-holding. Based on a wide-range of sources in several languages, many previously unexplored and...

This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world’s major religions. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure; accessible...

The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret. Ancient Israel was rich in such literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231305Author Arthur GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101875186Author Graciela MochkofskyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 143g

The factionalism and denominationalism of modern Jewry makes it supremely difficult to create a definition of the Jewish people. Instead of serving as a uniting force around which community is formed, Judaism has itself become a source of divisions...