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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867051353Author Joel Lurie GrishaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Alternatives in Religious EducationPublisher Alternatives in Religious...

In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad...

The pace of scholarly research and academic publication in fields of Judaica has quickened dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. The major consumers and producers of this new scholarship are found in Jewish Studies programs that have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879045989Author Lawrence KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308103Author Alan MorinisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Trumpeter BooksPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm)...

This is a comprehensive look at the intriguing concept of reincarnation as taught by the masters of the Kabbalah and as analyzed by major Jewish thinkers throughout history. Rabbi DovBer Pinson, born and raised in a Hasidic family immersed in the study...

This book explores the origins of Zionism within Jewish tradition, the variety of Zionist ideologies, and the political circumstances that fostered this movement. Jewish immigration to Palestine, shifting British policies, Arab reactions to Jewish...

In this book, Lynn Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today. Providing close readings of legal and narrative texts in the...

From the ninth to the fifteenth centuries Jewish thinkers living in Islamic and Christian lands philosophized about Judaism. Influenced first by Islamic theological speculation and the great philosophers of classical antiquity, and then in the late...

An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939-45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874419467Author Ellen RankFormat PaperbackImprint Behrman House PublishingPublisher Behrman House PublishingWeight(grams) 227g

In the Greco-Roman period there arose among the Jews a new genre for re-telling Bible stories and for composing new religious stories as well. This genre was the novel. This volume brings together for the first time and in fresh, lively translations all...

A leading expert provides an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism todayAmerican Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of...

Examining the production and assimilation of Jews as "the nation" in the modern state of Israel, this book shows how identity is constrained through myriad struggles over the meanings and practices of being Jewish. Based on years of ethnographic...

When the Jews of Eastern Europe came to the United States in the 19th century, they brought with them their own special humor. Developed in response to the dissonant reality of their lives, their self-critical humor served as a source of salvation,...

While Jews in the land of Israel in ancient times shared much in common - scripture, reverence for the Temple and its cult, some traits as one 'Orthodox' Judaism. Diverse 'Judaisms' flourished, each with its particular way of life, world view, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952326547Author Menachem Z RosensaftFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Kelsay BooksPublisher Kelsay BooksWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140147957Author David J. WolpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 174gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...

More than half a century after the Holocaust, in countries where Jews make up just a tiny fraction of the population, products of Jewish culture (or what is perceived as Jewish culture) have become very viable components of the popular public domain. But...

A Rabbi Reads the Torah distils a lifetime of Bible study by a Jewish scholar devoted to popularising the study of the Hebrew Bible in its original language, helped by the wealth of centuries of Jewish interpretation and debate, as well as the best of...

An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present That the human body can be the object not only of biological study but also of historical consideration and cultural criticism is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881236309Author Sue Levi ElwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

The last hasidic rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto explores many facets of spiritual growth and character development.About the AuthorThis text was translated from the original Hebrew text of Chovat Ha Talmidim by Rabbi Micha Odenheimer. He studied in Yeshivah...

The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai,...

The Blackwell Reader in Judaism introduces Judaism in its own words, affording readers a direct encounter with this ancient and enduring faith.About the AuthorJacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College. He has nine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383674Author Derek TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580627283Author Richard D. BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Adams Media CorporationPublisher Adams Media CorporationWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639795196Author Rabbi Charles H MiddleburghFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Hakodesh PressPublisher Hakodesh PressWeight(grams) 152g

‘A remarkable contribution to Maimonides scholarship.’ Rabbi Jeremy Rosen, The AlgemeinerBook InformationISBN 9781835539958Author James A. DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint The Littman Library of Jewish CivilizationPublisher Liverpool...

This powerful and deeply personal testimony to the enduring resilience of the Jewish people sets out to understand the legacy of the world’s oldest religion.

Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together, talking with as much authority about Sigmund Freud or Karl Marx as he does about the Bible. With a new foreword by Rowan Williams...

The symposium that kicks off the latest volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry focuses on the city that is at the very center of contemporary Jewish life, both geographically and culturally. Jerusalem is an extremely engaging and beautiful city as well...

What are some of the most enduring and pernicious historical misconceptions about Jews and the practice and history of their faith? Examining many of the most widely held forms of anti-Semitic thinking, this addition to the Historical Facts and Fictions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506493312Author Alon Goshen-GottsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 660Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

The Jewish sage Ben Sira links the partnership of the sage with personified Wisdom to his overall teaching on marriage and family. This study provides a detailed analysis of this connection, first, by describing the overlapping characteristics of fathers...

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What does race feel like? What does race make people feel? Ghost People traces the haunting feelings that constitute race as a structural, social, and psychic experience in modern European history by focusing on the case of Jewish racialization. Taking a...

Beginning with an overview of Judaism in North America, this book presents a survey of the tradition, provides historical context, and addresses key contemporary issues. It covers the essential topics in the study of Judaism in North America including...

Despite the fact that it was never really accepted as part of European academia before the Shoah, the tradition of Wissenschaft des Judentums that emerged after the Enlightenment period spread throughout most of the European-Jewish communities, creating...

This book contains a collection of chapters about the Jewish family across different parts of the world, with contributions representing Africa (Ivory Coast and Ethiopia), Latin America, Australia, Europe (Germany), Russia, Israel, Canada, Indian...