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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211597Author Rebecca GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807014271Author Viktor E. FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam argues that ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state. He explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780689838927Author Cathy Goldberg FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd

A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922729357Author Elizabeth Clare ProphetFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Summit University Press,U.S.Publisher Summit University Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210514Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807092156Author Viktor E. FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 174mm * 105mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556434440Author Gershon WinklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The first two volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, translated with commentary by Daniel C. Matt, cover more than half of the Zohar's commentary on the Book of Genesis (through Genesis 32:3). This is the first translation ever made from a critical...

Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture? Paul's famous formulation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571895561Author Rabbi Philip S BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Research Centre of KabbalahPublisher Research Centre of KabbalahWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210422Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570623516Author Perle BessermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210958Author Anita DiamantFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

The claim of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel is long established - and long challenged. Most Jews, and non-Jews, asked to explain their relationship with the actual physical territory of Israel, will offer some vague reference to God's promise,...

In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author's journey into the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310251576Author Gary Davis PraticoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 599g

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...

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...

As a young lecturer in philosophy and the eldest son of a prominent Jewish family, Alan Montefiore faced two very different understandings of his identity: the more traditional view that an identity such as his carried with it, as a matter of given fact,...

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 9780805210347Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm)...

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)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035602Author Louis JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

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 9780805211474Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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...

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him...

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 9781906958572Author Nick FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 426g

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)...

The Star of Redemption is widely recognized as a key document of modern existential thought and a significant contribution to Jewish theology in the twentieth century. An affirmation of what Rosenzweig called "the new thinking," the work ensconces common...