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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609807316Author Rav P.S. BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806538761Author Lita EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

This book offers an account of the 4,000-year history of the Jews, from the ancient Patriarchs and Kings through to modern times. It also explores the Jewish faith, its traditional beliefs and practices, its festivals and celebrations, and the way of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892813223Author Anne Meurois-GivaudanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and...

First published in 2011, The Jewish Annotated New Testament was a groundbreaking work, bringing the New Testament's Jewish background to the attention of students, clergy, and general readers. In this new edition, eighty Jewish scholars bring together...

Apologies 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

The Virgin Mary - a Jewish mother - is central to Christianity, a revered woman in Islam, and a person of persistent fascination for centuries. Marian worship and theology has inspired countless appearances in art, as well as religious philosophy and...

This lavish volume contains everything your students need to know about the feasts, fasts, and festivals that mark the Jewish year. Modern customs and celebrations are presented alongside each holiday's history and ancient traditions. Bible stories and...

Let Michal Oshman take you on a journey of self discovery to identify what makes you you, what you were born to do and how to do it.As a mentor for leaders in top global companies, Michal created a unique personal growth methodology based on the...

Abby Chava Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern...

What was life like for Jews who wanted to return to their former homes in Europe after the Holocaust? In Home after Fascism, Anna Koch draws on a rich array of interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the first-person homecoming stories...

Originally published in 1896 as Der Judenstaat, The Jewish State has taken its place among the likes of The Communist Manifesto and Common Sense as polemic writings which have changed modern history. Theodor Herzl's advocacy for a separate, independent...

An exploration into how the Sabbath and holidays are not days of obligation but of opportunityAbout the AuthorPrevious Books:To Life!Book InformationISBN 9780446670029Author Harold S KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Little, Brown &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791410448Author Peter SchaeferFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210330Author Harold S. KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 223gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity,...

Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why is the Jewish state the most hated country in the world today? Drawing on extensive historical research, Prager and Telushkin reveal how Judaism's distinctive...

You'll find everything you need to know about being Jewish in this indispensable, revised and updated guide to the religious traditions, everyday practices, philosophical beliefs, and historical foundations of Judaism.What happens at a synagogue service?...

A collection of caregiving tools combining the values of Jewish tradition and self-relationsuseful for practitioners of ANY faith!Self-relations, a powerful framework for doing respectful and humane caregiving for oneself and for others is here brought...

" . . . 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060766627Author Michael WiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about this new meaning is a storm of contradictions. In The Imaginary Jew, Alain Finkielkraut describes with passion and acuity his own passage through...

Named one of Library Journal's Best Religion & Spirituality Books of the YearAn Unorthodox Guide to Everything Jewish Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, this unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish...

Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime 'other' of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580130288Author Jacqueline JulesFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Kar-Ben Copies LtdPublisher Kar-Ben Copies Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671602703Author Blu GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd

Heidegger and Nazism: Ever since the philosopher's public involvement in state politics in 1933, his name has necessarily been a part of this unsavory couple. After the publication in 2014 of the private Black Notebooks, it is now unambiguously part of...

'...detailed and fair.' - The Spectator 'An exhaustive, impressive achievement.' - The Tablet As a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their institutions competent and mature. And yet within Jewish life in Britain there is a pervading sense of...

" . . . Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution. . . . Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go."-New York Times Book Review" . . . some of the most gripping chapters...

Find success in finance, friendships, , and spirituality with the advice of a well-known expert It's safe to say that nearly everyone is seeking a happier, more successful life. So then why do so few attain it? Business Secrets from the Bible proposes a...

This book tells the story of the mystical Jewish system known as Kabbalah, from its earliest origins until the present day. We trace Kabbalah's development, from the second century visionaries who visited the divine realms and brought back tales of...

Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we...

This book charts the author's long journey of healing from the trauma caused by having to go into hiding as a child and having to deny that she was Jewish. It is not intended as an autobiography or a clinical paper on the healing process but as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416593065Author Wendy MogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster

The death of Edmond Jabes in January 1991 silenced one of the most compelling voices of the postmodern, post-Holocaust era. Jabes's importance as a thinker, philosopher, and Jewish theologian cannot be overestimated, and his enigmatic style-combining...

Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as present as one's shadow, and praise of the seraphim was as sacred...

Discover God's Plans for Israel, the Church, the End Times, and Beyond In his book Israel and the Church, bestselling author and native Israeli Amir Tsarfati illuminates God's current and future plans for His chosen ones-the Jewish people and the...

Michele Guinness was brought up to observe all the traditions and ritual of her Jewish culture. But in her teens she found something lacking. When she encountered a Christian it raised questions in her own mind, and she turned to the Bible for answers...

Margaret Barker believes that Christianity developed so quickly because it was a return to far older faith - far older than the Greek culture that is long-held to have influenced Christianity. Temple Theology explains that the preaching of the gospel and...