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Considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century, Abraham Heschel finds just the right words to startle the mind and delight the heart. He addresses and challenges the whole person, portraying that rarest of...

A biochemist by profession, a polymath by inclination and erudition, Yeshayahu Leibowitz has been, since the early 1940s, one of the most incisive and controversial critics of Israeli culture and politics. His direct involvement, compelling polemics, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733813013Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"It all happened so fast that even now, a month later, I still have trouble believing it, and I have to tell myself over and over again: Leszli, you have been kidnapped." On April 12, 1999, Leszli Kalli boarded a plane in Colombia to work on a kibbutz...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725278608Author Harris BorFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...

The best-selling author of The Essential Kabbalah now offers readers the best introduction to the Zohar. The splendor and enigmatic appeal of the Zohar, the major text of the Jewish mystical tradition, has never intrigued readers of all faiths more...

An intimate history of the Holocaust that casts new light on our understanding of victimhood and survival.About the AuthorShirli Gilbert is associate professor of history and Jewish / Non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton, UK. She is also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496457745Author Doug HersheyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) was arguably the single most important Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, with an impact on the later Jewish tradition that was unparalleled by any of his contemporaries. In this volume of new essays, world-leading scholars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142196199Author Alfred J. KolatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989961438Author Bible Pathway AdventuresFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bible Pathway AdventuresPublisher Bible Pathway AdventuresWeight(grams)...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802805072Author Carl E. BraatenFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

From Simon & Schuster, The Halakchic Mind is an essay on Jewish tradition and modern thought from Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.Discusses the conflict between philosophy and science, examines the growth of religious knowledge, and shows how the Halakha,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800697495Author Christine HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609803783Author Laibl WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583303368Author Rabbi Ben Tzion ShafierFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Feldheim PublishersPublisher Feldheim PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958572Author Nick FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 426g

In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning and purpose of Maimonides' celebrated Guide to the Perplexed. Written in the late twelfth century, Maimonides' Guide aims to help...

Why was Jesus crucified? Precisely how did his teaching differ from other contemporary strands of Judaism? Sanders offers his answers in this provocative and illuminating study.Book InformationISBN 9780334020912Author E. P. SandersFormat PaperbackPage...

How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? In this groundbreaking book, David Goldenberg seeks to discover how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524951Author Abraham Joshua HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

What if the Hebrew Bible wasn't meant to be read as 'revelation'? What if it's not really about miracles or the afterlife - but about how to lead our lives in this world? The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture proposes a new framework for reading the Bible...

In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with calmness and clear-sightedness; as a historian he writes without anger but with compassion; as a non-Jewish Jew he writes without religious belief, but with a generous...

Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds."...

Reuchlin's keen interest in Jewish mysticism resulted in the original publication of this work in 1517. The first part of this dialogue reflects on messianism, the second part on the relation of the Pythagorean system to the Kabbalah, and the third on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374506087Author Abraham Joshua HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

What does it mean to be a Jew in the twenty-first century? Exploring the multifaceted and intensely complicated characteristics of this age-old, ever-changing community, Judaisms examines how Jews are a culture, ethnicity, nation, nationality, race,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592640249Author Jonathan SacksFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 150mm *...

Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic monotheism. As a deity, the name appears only in connection with the peoples of the Hebrew Bible, but long...

The 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...

A twelve-year-old boy named Peisach is snatched from his home in a shtetl near Vitebsk in 1842 and marched far away to be prepared for 25 years of service in the Russian Imperial Army. Six years later, he will be assigned to a garrison in Viipuri, a city...

From Madonna's music videos to the glossy pages of celebrity magazines and back to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Jewish mysticism has stepped into the modern consciousness like never before. In this classic work, world-renowned scholar Adin...

The suicide of Joanne Limburg's beloved brother Julian left her shattered. When her mother dies too, Joanne pulls herself from the depths of grief by embarking on a journey of salvage, collecting up those scattered fragments of memory from her childhood...

In this book, David Patterson offers original insights into the dynamics that underlie the phenomenon of endemic antisemitism, arguing that in all its manifestations, antisemitism is fundamentally anti-Judaism. Structured in a unique matrix of chapters...

Introducing the contemporary conversation on internalised Jew-hate, Reclaiming Our Story is the second instalment of world-renowned educator Ben M. Freeman's seminal manifesto of the modern Jewish Pride movement that has revolutionised the Jewish world. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825432606Author Flavius JosephusFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647390037Author Brian Yosef Schachter-BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645305Author Shalom RosnerFormat HardbackPage Count 545Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm *...