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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989971331Author Larry D WaitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint My Own American FlagPublisher My Own American FlagWeight(grams) 812g

A lucid presentation for both Jew and non-Jew of the development and contemporary significance of Jewish liturgy.Book InformationISBN 9780827600034Author Abraham E. MillgramFormat HardbackPage Count 700Imprint Jewish Publication SocietyPublisher Jewish...

Israel Denial is the first book to offer detailed analyses of the work faculty members have published-individually and collectively-in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement; it contrasts their claims with options for promoting...

Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists - from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim - have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience; and that audience's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738519968Author Irwin J. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615560489Author Rabbi David ShabtaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint ShoreshPublisher ShoreshWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180396Author Theodore RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 218g

Heinz Hartmann, a young, ambitious medical student, had fulfilled all the requirements for his degree in medicine except one - Aryan descent. As a Jew in the Germany of the 1930's, Hartmann saw his professors flee the country or be shipped off to...

The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. ""Women Remaking American...

Shalom Sadik interrogates the nature of Maimonides’ religious philosophy through examination of secrets in the philosopher’s Guide for the Perplexed, the role of dialectic in his philosophy, the relationship between natural law and God’s commandments,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974403984Author Malca BassanFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Malca BassanPublisher Malca BassanWeight(grams) 216g

Every generation of Jews in every denomination of Judaism finds itself facing complex legal questions. The status of same-sex unions and the plight of the agunah (a woman who cannot obtain a divorce), are just two of a myriad of thorny questions Jewish...

The prevalence of anti-Semitism in Russia is well known, but the issue of race within the Jewish community has rarely been discussed explicitly. Combining ethnography with archival research, Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue documents the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578626932Author Ilene Winn-LedererFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Imaginarius EditionsPublisher Imaginarius EditionsWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

A minority within Judaism, the Karaites are known as ""reading community"" - one that looks to the Bible as the authority in all areas of life, including intimate relations and hygiene. Here Ruth Tsoffar considers how Egyptian...

Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century is the first critical examination of the early life of Mordecai Caplet-the sources of his inspiration, the evolution of his thought as a religious ideologue, and his inner struggles. Kaplan is perhaps the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674381209Author Bezalel SafranFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997820560Author Mitchell FirstFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Kodesh Press L.L.C.Publisher Kodesh Press L.L.C.Weight(grams) 531g

Yiddish language and literature played a major role in the lives of millions of Eastern European Jews, both in their homelands and in the centers to which they immigrated in America. Aspects of that culture have continued to be enjoyed and explored by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555409241Author Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 308g

Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists - from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim - have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience; and that audience's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555405380Author Jacob NeusnerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 517g

Following the ordering of the Palestinian canon, The Inclusive Prophets includes the twelve minor prophets along with the Isaiah, Jeremiah and the historical books of Samuel and Kings. This second volume of the Inclusive Hebrew Scriptures follows the...

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and experience. In this volume, leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469672229Author ZislFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Association for Public Religion and Intellectual LifePublisher Association for Public Religion...

This book examines the ideology and social base of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood from its founding in 1945 to 1993. While there has been considerable discussion of contemporary Islamist organizations in Middle Eastern and Western literature, there has...

In the last twenty-five years, the effort to understand the ways of others has reinvigorated religious discussion on many levels. We have entered what has been described as the "Age of Dialogue." But what should be the nature of such dialogue?...

The biblical accounts of Eve's life are central to Western culture, occupying a privileged place in our literature and art, culture, and society. For both Judaism and Christianity, these stories involving Eve have for centuries been entangled with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738514499Author Valerie FreyFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035015Author Rabbi Chaim RapoportFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034179Author S.W. MassilFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555406509Author Jacob NeusnerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 513g

While the essence of God will always remain a mystery to man, much has been written through the ages about how God relates to the world. In this regard, the Divine names are of ultimate significance to man for they represent His attributes. Focusing on...

With the age of enlightenment in Europe and the emancipation of Western Europe's Jewish populations, Jews at last held a place within society and could integrate within the life of a modern Western nation. Nominally a blessing, emancipation yet brought...

In this fitting companion to the JPS TANAKH, David Mandel has undertaken the enormous task of cataloging every character in the Hebrew Bible. From Aaron to Zurishaddai, this comprehensive biographical dictionary gives readers the opportunity to get up...

In this first sociological analysis of millenarian and mystical movements from the Middle Ages to the present, Sharot deals primarily with the Jewish masses. He describes religious currents in which hope focused on either a messiah who would bring...

Integrate Judaism into early childhood classrooms in a natural, daily way. Thirty-six common preschool topics are firmly grounded in a Jewish context. Lessons on Food (apples, peanut butter and jelly), Animals (butterflies, dinosaurs), The World All...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988975903Author Zhanna VaynbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Forward Focus PublishingPublisher Forward Focus PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984804870Author Rabbi Goldie MilgramFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Reclaiming JudaismPublisher Reclaiming JudaismWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881236378Author Martin BuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...