History

A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab...

This volume brings together studies by experts in the rabbinic literature of late antiquity and by specialists in the history of the Jews in that period in order to reveal the value of rabbinic material as historical evidence and the problems and issues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652296511Author Rabbi Dr. Israel DrazinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 480g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652298744Author Rabbi Yosef BittonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 372g

This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during...

Named Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize Winner of the 2014 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.  This book examines the significant role that memory failures play in early rabbinic...

With extraordinary chutzpa and deep philosophical seriousness, Solomon ben Joshua of Lithuania renamed himself after his medieval intellectual hero, Moses Maimonides. Maimon was perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most controversial figure of...

Jewish Dogs is not a study of "anti-Semitism" or "anti-Judaism." Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric-and sometimes not so metaphoric-dogs. The dog has for...

A useful tool for book clubs adult education classes and study groups the Leader's Guide toÔøΩJewish History: The Big PictureÔøΩincludes chapter overviews core concepts and discussion questions for each chapter of the book.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941610817Author Aubrey L GlazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Fons Vitae,USPublisher Fons Vitae,USWeight(grams) 675g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161480713Author Catherine HezserFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Weight(grams) 627g

Maimonides was not the first rabbinic scholar to take an interest in philosophy, but he was unique in being a towering figure in both areas. His law code, the Mishneh torah, stands with Rashi's commentary on the Babylonian Talmud as one of the two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506406091Author E. P. SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community was second only in size to that of the United States, and was the laboratory in which the ideological orientations which dominated the Jewish world - Zionism, Bundism, Neo-Orthodoxy,...

Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900), founder of the major institutions of Reform Judaism in America, was a man of his time—a pioneer in a pioneer’s world. When he came to America from his childhood Bohemia in 1846, he found fewer than 50,000 Jews and only two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800662868Author Michael E. StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Isreal's feasts are infinitely more important than just a series of cultural observances. These feasts are appointed by the Lord, and they are owned by the Lord. Together they form God's prophetic calendar, outlining the work of history's most important...

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802828873Author John J. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and futureWhat is the purpose of Jews in the world? The Bible singles out the Jews as God's "chosen people,"...

This provocative volume explores the origins of the Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. Jon D. Levenson argues that, contrary to a very widespread misconception, the ancient rabbis were keenly committed to the belief that at the end of time,...

As featured on the cover of Tikkun magazine How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597524131Author Professor of Religion Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979963186Author D M MurdockFormat PaperbackPage Count 582Imprint Stellar House Publishing, LLCPublisher Stellar House Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Bahya Ibn Pakuda was born c. 1050, and lived for some time in Saragossa in Spain. His major work was written in Arabic, but it is most well-known by its Hebrew title Hovot ha-Levavot (Duties of the Heart). It enjoyed enormous popularity and was ...

This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. Makers...

Only one of the world's mythologies has remained essentially unrecognized--the mythology of Judaism. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, this mythical tradition is as rich and as fascinating as...

The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506406428Author Matthias HenzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of...

A revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to assert the value of rabbinic doubt in the face of messianic certaintyIn 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that...

After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The Age of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world...

A finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for scholarship--a broad, systematic account of one of the most original and creative kabbalists, biblical interpreters, and Talmudic scholars the Jewish tradition has ever produced"Beautifully written,...

Many Christians and Jews believe that their faiths developed independently from each other, and that their religions are distinct, even antagonistic towards each other. A Portable God dramatically departs from the idea that the birth of Judaism and...

Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for...

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...

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the Bible, from multiple versions of biblical texts to "revealed" books not found in our canon. Despite this diversity, the way we read Second Temple Jewish...

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us `Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to...

We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book--and yet it was produced by a largely nonliterate culture in which writing, editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work of a professional elite. The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the...