Rituals & Practice

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580232685Author Jeremy BensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782924932391Author Guy MillièreFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Les Editions Libertes NumeriquesPublisher Les Editions Libertes NumeriquesWeight(grams)...

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"In these companion volumes of essays, Jewish and Christian liturgical scholars examine, from historical, theological, and aesthetic perspectives, the practices and intricate interrelationships of Passover and Easter. Several essays lament the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060613594Author Aviva CantorFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 925g

Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical...

The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship, volume 1 of Two Liturgical Traditions, surveyed the origins and growth of Christian and Jewish liturgy from the first century of the common era until our time. Volume 2, The Changing Face of Jewish and...

Passover and Easter constitute for Jews and Christians respectively the most important festivals of the year. Although sharing a common root, the feasts have developed in quite distinct ways in the two traditions, in part independently of one another and...

The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship, volume 1 of Two Liturgical Traditions, surveyed the origins and growth of Christian and Jewish liturgy from the first century of the common era until our time. Volume 2, The Changing Face of Jewish and...

A paperback reprint of a title originally published by OUP in 1992, this ethnography explores the religious beliefs and rituals of a group of elderly Jewish women, originally from Kurdistan and Yemen, who now live in Jerusalem. By analysing their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807036211Author Lawrence A. HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824603557Author Rabbi Alfred J KolatchFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams)...

Women as Ritual Experts reveals how in gender segregated religions like Orthodox Judaism women develop their own autonomous religious sphere and activities that sacralize female roles. Until recently, this female world of religion has been all but...

Riv-Ellen Prell spent eighteen months of participant observation field research studying a countercultural havurah to determine why these groups emerged in the United States during the 1970s. In her book, she explores the central questions posed by the...

In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site. Surrounded by members of the multi-denominational organization,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940646827Author Seymour RosselFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rossel BooksPublisher Rossel BooksWeight(grams) 209g

Rabbinic political thinking has a long and comparatively well documented history extending back to the biblical constitution in Deuteronomy. Though rabbinic political theory conventionally remains unrecognized by political scientists, the rise of...

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Demonstrating that many common assumptions about the traditional Jewish family are mistaken, this collection of essays - many previously unpublished - by thirteen leading scholars explores the subject both in its historical reality and as it has been...

For nearly four millennia Judaism was essentially a unified religious system based on shared traditions. Despite the emergence of various sub-groups through the centuries such as the Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Karaites, Shabbateans and Hasadim, Jewry...

Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived - and they have found that this consideration of human geography greatly enriches our understanding of cultural history. This 'spatial...

How have modern Jews appropriated traditional aspects of their culture and religion to sustain them in the modern world? Twenty-one distinguished scholars address this question by drawing on a range of disciplines: social and cultural history,...

The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. This is in part because asceticism is not commonly identified with celibacy, whereas the rabbis emphasized sexuality as a positive good. In...

Liturgy, a complex interweaving of word, text, song, and behavior is a central fixture of religious life in the Jewish tradition. It is unique in that it is performed and not merely thought. Because liturgy is performed by a specific group at a specific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692313558Author Jason WeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Kodesh PressPublisher Kodesh PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

The Jewish practice of bar mitzvah dates back to the twelfth century, but this ancient cultural ritual has changed radically since then, evolving with the times and adapting to local conditions. For many Jewish-American families, a child's bar mitzvah or...

Jews in the United States are uniquely American in their connections to Jewish religion and ethnicity. Sylvia Barack Fishman in her groundbreaking book, Jewish Life and American Culture, shows that contemporary Jews have created a hybrid new form of...

The distinction between clean and unclean animals, probably originating in tensions between shepherds and farmers, is in the biblical laws of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 transformed into an important theological principle. In this wide-ranging and...

Alfred Edersheim's well-researched account of everyday Jewish life at the time the New Testament Gospels took place remains one of the best texts on the subject ever authored. This edition includes the author's appendixes. The reader is taken back to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884141914Author Henrietta L WileyFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical: it turns a Gentile into a Jew once and for all and irrevocably. The very possibility of such a transformation is anomalous, according to Jewish tradition, which regards Jewishness as an...

Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism and the rabbi who initiated the first Bat Mitzvah, also produced the longest Jewish diary on record. In twenty-seven volumes, written between 1913 and 1978, Kaplan shares not only his reaction...

Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism and the rabbi who initiated the first Bat Mitzvah, also produced the longest Jewish diary on record. In twenty-seven volumes, written between 1913 and 1978, Kaplan shares not only his reaction...

This book explores the cultural connection between Syrian Jewish life and Arab culture in present-day Brooklyn, New York, through liturgical music. Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, New York, number more than forty thousand and constitute the largest single group...

The Jewish practice of bar mitzvah dates back to the twelfth century, but this ancient cultural ritual has changed radically since then, evolving with the times and adapting to local conditions. For many Jewish-American families, a child's bar mitzvah or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645122893Author Rachel Angel-SussmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Australian Self Publishing GroupPublisher Australian Self Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557349043Author Steven J GoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Whom do Jews consider to be Jewish? Is one born a Jew? Does one have a choice? Marriage, religious conviction, feelings of guilt in the face of history have all been reasons for seeking membership of the Jewish community. What are the practical issues...