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Keepers of Memory answers the question of how descendants of Holocaust survivors remember the Holocaust, the event that preceded their birth but has shaped their lives. Through personal stories and in-depth interviews, Rich examines the complicated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807408544Author Rifat SonsinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

In this volume, Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo, highly regarded author and lecturer, examines some of the most controversial topics in Jewish thought and law. Join Rabbi Lopes Cardozo on this journey of discovery as he makes a critical assessment of the Jewish...

Jewish tradition is rich in stories, many of which center around the lives and work of the great chasidic rabbis, known as rebbes. As a child, Sterna Citron, who descends from distinguished rabbinic families, was surrounded by these stories. Each night...

In The Written and Oral Torah: A Comprehensive Introduction, Rabbi Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo offers those interested in Jewish tradition an explanation of and basic insight into Judaism's classical sources. Containing a diverse selection of material culled...

This volume introduces readers, in a clear and user-friendly way, to the basic concepts of Jewish prayer and the prayerbook, and will serve as a personal reference for those who are looking to become more familiar with the ways in which Jewish prayer has...

Renewed Survival is an ethno-historic account of Jewish community life in Croatia. It traces the community's turbulent history from its inception in the late eighteenth century to the shifting political climate of the 1990s following the disintegration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953829443Author Jonathan L FriedmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580232029Author Karyn D. KedarFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953829238Author Joseph ProuserFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498242608Author Marilyn PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 290g

How do we find meaning in our life? This book explores how Martin Buber, one of the 20th century's greatest religious thinkers, answers this timeless question. Author Kenneth Paul Kramer explains Buber's Hasidic spirituality-a living connection between...

In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought about, and those outlines of the two Talmuds have been...

This anthology illustrates how Judaism's classical rabbis of the first seven centuries of the Common Era read the ancient Israelite scriptures. It presents, in particular, a selection of writings that show what happens to the five books of Moses at the...

The first group of essays in Judaism in Monologue and Dialogue raises issues concerning the religious tradition of Judaism: what is normative in ethics; what it means to "be religious" or practice Judaism in the context of the Judaism defined...

Genesis Rabbah is the commentary on the book of Genesis produced by the Rabbinic sages of the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. It provides the Judaic reading of the book of Genesis in light of historical events of that critical period, when the Roman...

Peninnah Schram, widely regarded as one of the great Jewish storytellers of our generation, has collected and retold sixty-four delightful Jewish folktales to create Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another. Ms. Schram, who believes that stories form...

Ninety-one letters, ethical wills, bar mitzvah speeches, and other personal records are presented in chronological order following an interpretive essay on the ethical aspirations of American Jewry.Book InformationISBN 9781568219684Author Jacob Rader...

This book is a collection of stories by the world-renowned rabbi and folk singer, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. This is the first time that Shlomo Carlebach's inspiring stories have been transcribed and edited for publication.Book InformationISBN...

Whether studied in anticipation of Yom Kippur or used as a guide for personal and professional life, the insights revealed here will be invaluable to all entrepreneurs, creditors, debtors, employers, employees, producers, and consumers. The viduy, or...

Have you ever wondered why the groom breaks a glass at a Jewish wedding? Did you know that a traditional Jewish funeral requires a coffin made of plain wood with no nails? Are you curious as to why, in a Jewish house of mourning, the mirrors are usually...

To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781568214078Author Reuven P. BulkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Jason Aronson Inc. PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson...

Pirkey Avoth-Chapters of the Sages-is one of the most well known texts in Jewish tradition. It contains the ethical and moral principles guiding the Jewish way of life as handed down by the sages. In essence, it is a guidebook for living. In this...

Why Be Jewish? A Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Jewish Traditions and Values addresses the question raised by millions of Jews for whom traditional/religious Judaism doesn't work: "Why should I remain a Jew?" Richard D. Bank addresses...

Eve was not Adam's first wife. That honor belongs to Lilith, who was created as Adam's equal. When he tried to dominate her, she uttered God's secret name and flew away. Lilith is mentioned in the Talmud, elaborated on in the midrash and in the kabbalah,...

Jewish Music: Its History, People, and Song details the importance of instrumental and vocal music to the Jewish people. Rabbi Ronald Isaacs surveys Jewish history and provides a broad study of music in Jewish life.About the AuthorRabbi Ronald Isaacs is...

Meditation and Judaism is a comprehensive work on Jewish meditation, encompassing the entire spectrum of Jewish thought_from the early Kabbalists to the modern Chassidic and Mussar masters, the sages of the Talmud, to the modern philosophers. Both a...

This work provides an introduction to some of the important researchers, issues, and methodological and stylistic approaches in Yiddish and Jewish studies .Book InformationISBN 9780761990253Author Dov-Ber KerlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint...

The result for the history of Judaism of a documentary reading of the Rabbinic canonical sources illustrates the working of that hypothesis. It is the first major outcome of that hypothesis, but there are other implications, and a variety of new problems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389614480Author Flavius JosephusFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596057951Author Professor Louis GinzbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 476g

This analysis of how the Rabbis of the Talmud and Midrash made Jeremiah one of their own shows how Rabbinic Judaism rehearses the Prophetic message. Jeremiah offered hope to renew the relation that was broken, and Yohanan ben Zakkai promised another mode...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655557893Author Elana Mira MizrahiFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Ilanot PublishingPublisher Ilanot PublishingWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...

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In the first six centuries of the Common Era, the Rabbis of formative Judaism, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, consulted the ancient Israelite prophets for guidance on issues of theology, law, history, and literature. In this anthology, Jacob Neusner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646067312Author Batya ShemeshFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Global Summit HousePublisher Global Summit HouseWeight(grams) 685g

Why does the Torah begin with the letter beit, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet? In seeking answers to this question, Michael J. Alter has gathered a wealth of material drawing from the Oral Law (Mishnah and Talmud), the Midrash, anonymous...

Readers of this book will emerge with a new awareness of what we as Jews are doing when we pray, why we are doing it, how we are supposed to be affected by prayer, how the prayers came to be as they are today, and how they differ among the major...

Death and the Afterlife comprise the latest frontier of human knowledge and awareness. Rabbi Solomon addresses the Jewish perspective on the soul's afterlife journey. As a work of practical spirituality, The Jewish Book of Living and Dying applies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627200141Author Zackary Sholem BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Apprentice HousePublisher Apprentice HouseWeight(grams) 152g