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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780567281272Author George C HeiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973252316Author Jack BotwinikFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Paper SpiderPublisher Paper SpiderWeight(grams) 336g

This is the first English translation of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, one of the richest depositories of rabbinic reflections on the study of the Torah. It is the earliest commentary on Abot, the only tractate of the Mishnah that does not deal...

This book collects all known Jewish inscriptions in Egypt between the third century BC and the sixth century AD. The entry on each inscription provides text, translation, bibliography and commentary. Hitherto, it has been necessary to refer to an older...

This book is a major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. The analysis of ethnicity focuses on the differences among Jews from different countries of...

Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture gives voice to the activists empowered by the state to create a Soviet Jewish national culture. These activists were striving for a national revolution to create a new culture for Jews to identify as Jews...

The purpose of this book is to re-examine those basic issues in the study of Midrash which to some extent have been marginalised by trends in scholarship and research. Irving Jacobs asks, for example, whether the early rabbinic exegetes had a concept of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824604752Author Nathan A BarackFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824601607Author Morris MandelFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams) 762g

Written in response to students' worries over the demands of dealing with a range of complex and unfamiliar concepts, this handy reference book enables readers to grasp the essentials of Judaism up to graduate level. It also provides a pool of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648408611Author Michoel GourarieFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Bina Jewish Wisdom LtdPublisher Bina Jewish Wisdom LtdWeight(grams) 485g

Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and two extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerably, are rarely studied together. This is due to the disparate interests of many of their...

Much more than a particular period in world history, modernity has fundamentally transformed how we think and live, and especially how we understand and relate to religious traditions. As the 'ghetto walls' have fallen, both empirically and...

We think of the kibbutz as a place for communal living and working. Members work, reside, and eat together, and share income "from each according to ability, to each according to need". But in the late 1980s the kibbutzim decided that they...

Over half of all American Jewish children are being raised by intermarried parents. This demographic group will have a tremendous impact on American Judaism as it is lived and practiced in the coming decades. To date, however, in both academic studies...

This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different...

Over half of all American Jewish children are being raised by intermarried parents. This demographic group will have a tremendous impact on American Judaism as it is lived and practiced in the coming decades. To date, however, in both academic studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008993099Author Yair DavidiyFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

The first-century ascetic Jewish philosophers known as the 'Therapeutae', described in Philo's treatise De Vita Contemplativa, have often been considered in comparison with early Christians, the Essenes, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. This study, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824604769Author Jacob BellerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams) 640g

Revelation and the God of Israel explores the concept of revelation as it emerges from the Hebrew Scriptures and is interpreted in Jewish philosophy and theology. The first part is a study in intellectual history that attempts to answer the question,...

Too often philosemitism, the idealization of Jews and Judaism, has been simplistically misunderstood as merely antisemitism in sheep's clothing. This book takes a different approach, surveying the phenomenon from antiquity to the present day, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824604790Author David Max EichhornFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Jonathan David PublishersPublisher Jonathan David PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824604783Author Reuben KaufmanFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams) 463g

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824604776Author Samuel SobelFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Jonathan David PublishersPublisher Jonathan David PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

This comprehensive treasury of sources on Judaism in the ancient period will be valued and used by students, scholars and general readers who are interested in Jewish history, classical studies, or the origins of Christianity. Two of the worlds leading...

This book presents a linear history of Jewish martyrdom, from the Hellenistic period to the high Middle Ages. Following the chronology of sources, the study challenges the general consensus that martyrdom was an original Hellenistic Jewish idea. Instead,...

The topic of this book is 'creation'. It breaks down into discussions of two distinct, but interrelated, questions: what does the universe look like, and what is its origin? The opinions about creation considered by Norbert Samuelson come from the Hebrew...

The Jewish national revival of our times has stimulated scholarly interest in the historical origins and manifestations of Jewry's distinctive traditions of constitutional thought and political action. This study is a contribution to that enquiry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759672468Author Fern S. MargolisFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 438g

Between 1800 and 1880 approximately 6500 Dutch Jews immigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. Although they numbered less than one-tenth of all Dutch immigrants and were a mere fraction of all Jews in...

Nineteenth-century French Jewry was a community struggling to meet the challenges of emancipation and modernity. This struggle, with its origins in the founding of the French nation, constitutes the core of modern Jewish identity. With the Revolution of...

Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, an astounding 45,000 of Bulgaria's 50,000 Jews left voluntarily for Israel. This mass exodus was remarkable considering that Bulgaria was the only Axis power to prevent the deportation...

Following World War II, members of the sizable Jewish community in what had been Kurdistan, now part of Iraq, left their homeland and resettled in Palestine where they were quickly assimilated with the dominant Israeli-Jewish culture. The Jews of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692265826Author Mary E CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Tovah MiriamPublisher Tovah MiriamWeight(grams) 254g

Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France is a history of the stories the French told about the Jews in their midst during the early nineteenth century. Using a novel cultural analysis that brings together pamphlets, newspaper articles,...

Judah Halevi's Book of the Kuzari is a defense of Judaism that has enjoyed an almost continuous transmission since its composition in the twelfth century. By surveying the activities of readers, commentators, copyists and printers for more than 700...

Contrary to the widespread view that nationalism is a modern phenomenon, Goodblatt argues that it can be found in the ancient world. He argues that concepts of nationalism compatible with contemporary social scientific theories can be documented in the...

The Sacrifice of Isaac is one of the most well-known stories in the Bible. It is also a shocking account of how Abraham's faith in God was demonstrated by a willingness to sacrifice his long-awaited son at God's command. This story has been a source of...