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The Great Partnership by Jonathan Sacks
RRP: $23.08$15.54Writing with his usual grace and fluency, Jonathan Sacks moves beyond the tired arguments of militant atheists such as Dawkins' The God Delusion and Hitchens' God is Not Great, to explore how religion has always played a valuable part in human culture... -
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim
RRP: $52.50$35.97In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. 'Remarkable.' Max Hastings, THE SUNDAY TIMES Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time... -
Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology Miri Freud-Kandel 9781906764883
$65.23For Louis Jacobs, the quest-the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith-was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by general religious crisis, of an observant, committed, but intellectually curious... -
Leviticus as Literature by Professor Mary Douglas 9780199244195
RRP: $86.08$62.66This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world-renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts... -
Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah by Jill Hammer 9781934730065
RRP: $52.40$49.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934730065Author Jill HammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Judaism Is about Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life by Shai Held 9780374192440
RRP: $63.00$45.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374192440Author Shai HeldFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g -
Hybrid Hate: Jews, Blacks, and the Question of Race by Tudor Parfitt
RRP: $65.08$48.83Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt... -
The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism by Alan Unterman
RRP: $27.28$19.09'The Torah is both hidden and revealed ... there is a secret meaning to the holy Torah that is not written down explicitly or explained in it' This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the 'Kabbalah', the body of writings in the Jewish mystical... -
War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism by Alan Dershowitz 9781510780545
RRP: $62.98$34.73In War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism, Alan Dershowitz-#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars-explains why the horrific attack of Oct 7 and Israel's just response changes everything. It has... -
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: $25.18$17.70A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women... -
The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction by Charles L. Cohen
RRP: $18.88$16.74In the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram--Abraham, a father of many nations. With this name and his Covenant, Abraham would become the patriarch of three of the world's major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Connected by... -
Messianic Judaism by Sherbok Cohn 9780826454584
RRP: $231.00$230.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
RRP: $23.08$14.70Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.As a member of... -
Window of the Soul by James David Dunn 9781666755886
RRP: $84.00$59.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666755886Author James David DunnFormat HardbackPage Count 219Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Torah For Dummies by Arthur Kurzweil
RRP: $39.88$27.62An easy-to-understand introduction to Judaism's most sacred text The foundation of Hebrew and Jewish religion, thought, law, and society is the Torah-the parchment scroll containing the text of the Five Books of Moses that is located in every synagogue... -
The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism Irving (Yitz) Greenberg 9780827615212
RRP: $58.78$43.13The Triumph of Life is Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s magnum opus—a narrative of the relationship between God and humanity as expressed in the Jewish journey through modernity, the Holocaust, the creation of Israel, and the birth of Judaism’s next era... -
Kabbalah For Dummies Arthur Kurzweil (Elat Chayyim) 9780471915904
RRP: $39.88$27.62See how ancient Jewish mystical traditions and rituals can transform your lifeKabbalah For Dummies presents a balanced perspective of Kabbalah as an "umbrella" for a complex assemblage of mystical Jewish teachings and codification techniques. Kabbalah... -
Thirty-Two Gates: Into the Heart of Kabbalah and Chassidus by Dovber Pinson 9780991472093
RRP: $62.98$48.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991472093Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Way of Man: According to the Teachings of Hasidism by Martin Buber
RRP: $18.88$17.07Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this short and remarkable book he presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth... -
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the YearA prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time'Absolutely,... -
Must a Jew Believe Anything? Menachem Kellner 9781904113386
RRP: $39.17$35.81The crucial question for today's Jewish world, Menachem Kellner argues, is not whether Jews will have Jewish grandchildren, but how many different sorts of mutually exclusive Judaisms those grandchildren will face. Kellner's short, brisk, and... -
Understanding Genesis: The World of the Bible in the Light of History by Nahum M. Sarna 9780805202533
RRP: $27.28$25.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805202533Author Nahum M. SarnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm... -
Finding Grace at the Center: The Beginning of Centering Prayer by Thomas Clarke
RRP: $20.98$15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594731822Author Thomas ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint SkyLight Paths Publishing,USPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 0g -
The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland: An Architectural and Social History Sharman Kadish 9780300170511
RRP: $94.50$84.06The religious buildings of the Jewish community in Britain have never been explored in print. Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished images and photographs taken specially by English Heritage, this book traces the architecture of the synagogue... -
King David: A Biography by Steven L. McKenzie 9780195132731
RRP: $71.38$64.49One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary. Michaelangelo's magnificent sculpture of him is perhaps the single best known work of art in the world,... -
The Wisdom of the Zohar: An Anthology of Texts Isaiah Tishby 9781874774280
RRP: $173.25$160.02The Zohar is the fundamental work of Jewish mysticism. Isaiah Tishby's classic and definitive Wisdom of the Zohar makes the world of the Zohar available to the English-speaking reader in all its complexity and poetry. The extended extracts are... -
Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
RRP: $31.48$21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210606Author Simon WiesenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Seinfeld Talmud: A Jewish Guide To A Show About Nothing by Jarrod Tanny 9781680536232
RRP: $180.60$116.47Are there degrees of coincidence? Is it poor hygiene to "double dip" a chip? Is it appropriate to say "God bless you" to a woman who sneezes if her husband does not? If you named a kid Rasputin, do you think that would have a negative effect on his life?... -
When Rabbis Abuse: Power, Gender, and Status in the Dynamics of Sexual Abuse in Jewish Culture by Elana Sztokman 9781957712017
RRP: $62.98$44.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957712017Author Elana SztokmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Lioness BooksPublisher Lioness BooksWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The End of Jewish Modernity Enzo Traverso 9780745336664
RRP: $35.68$24.23Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues to dazzle us, however, in this provocative new book,... -
The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations by Jonathan Sacks
RRP: $29.38$23.18Rabbi Jonathan Sacks presents a proposal for reframing the terms of this important debate. The first major statement by a Jewish leader on the ethics of globalization, it introduces a new paradigm into the search for co-existence. Sacks argues that we... -
Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin 9780062318985
RRP: $52.50$50.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062318985Author Rabbi Joseph TelushkinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 830g -
Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World by Jonathan Schorsch 9780521820219
RRP: $262.50$195.78This 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... -
Judaism by David Starr-Glass 9781857334401
RRP: $16.78$12.89"Simple Guides Judaism" provides a concise and accessible introduction to Judaism. Written without bias, this guide presents engaging descriptions of the key concepts, beliefs and practices. Pocket sized and presented in an accessible format with clearly... -
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities by Jean Amery
RRP: $27.28$24.72"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain. . .all the way to its stoic conclusion." -Primo Levi"The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true." -Irving Howe, New... -
On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death by Jean Amery
RRP: $39.88$35.11" . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . " -Kirkus ReviewsJean Amery (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down... -
The New Joys of Yiddish by Lawrence Bush 9780609806920
RRP: $46.20$34.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609806920Author Leo RostenFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 822gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner
RRP: $20.98$14.93The #1 bestselling inspirational classic from the internationally known spiritual leader; a source of solace and hope for over 4 million readers.Since its original publication in 1981, When Bad Things Happen to Good People has brought solace and hope to... -
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman
RRP: $39.88$25.58'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.' - The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks 'Among the finest volumes on Cohen's life and... -
Jewish Communities in Modern Asia: Their Rise, Demise and Resurgence by Rotem Kowner 9781009162586
RRP: $178.50$161.70Jewish settlement in Asia, beyond the Middle East, is largely a modern phenomenon. Imperial expansion and adventurism by Great Britain and Russia were the chief motors that initially drove Jewish settlers to move eastwards, in the nineteenth century,...