Judaism category: 3160 books
by Zvi Zohar
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern times. The text has three...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
Mordecai M. Kaplan, a pioneering figure in the reinterpretation and redefinition of Judaism in the 20th century, embraced religious liberalism, naturalism, and empiricism, and gave expression to a unique American attitude in philosophy and theology. This volume, the first comprehensive treatment of...
Contemporary American Judaism
Transformation and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
No longer controlled by a handful of institutional leaders based in remote headquarters and rabbinical seminaries, American Judaism is being transformed by the spiritual decisions of tens of thousands of Jews living all over the United States. A pulpit rabbi and himself an American Jew, Dana Evan...
by Heinrich Graetz
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. page THE DECAY OF JUDÆA, AND THE JEWS IN DISPERSION. The Zendik Religion—King Kobad and Mazdak the Reformer—Revolt of the Jews—Mar-Zutra—Revival of the Schools—The Saburaïm—The Talmud committed to writing—Tolerance of Chosru II—The...
Judaism
History, Belief, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
With a Diaspora that has spread to nearly every continent, the Judaic tradition has been an integral part of the history and development of societies the world over. As the oldest of the world’s three major monotheistic religions, Judaism has survived centuries of trial and transformation, all while...
by Stephen Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
One of the issues confronting Messianic Judaism is their relationship to the Torah and to the Rabbinic Customs of the Jews. There are two tensions that confront Jewish Believers in Jesus. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus says:
“Do not think that I have come to destroy the Torah and the Prophets....
by Keith Kahn-Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
For a group of people so limited in number, the Jewish community has had a huge impact on both global events and local politics. In this vibrant new look at Judaism, sociologist and cultural critic Keith Kahn-Harris provides a remarkably sharp insight into this history, and particularly the diverse Jewish communities (and diverse ideas of Jewishness) that exist today.
American Post-Judaism
Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic...
Jews and Judaism in the 21st Century
Human Responsibility, the Presence of God, and the Future of the Covenant
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
In this thought-provoking book, five celebrated leaders in Judaism, representing a broad spectrum of contemporary Jewish experience, reinterpret Jewish life, re-envision its institutions, and re-imagine its future in the shadow of the events of the twentieth century.
The Essential Guide to Jewish Prayer and Practices
Discover a Richer Spirituality Through Jewish Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
An insightful and illuminating guide to Judaism's basic tenets and practices. The Essential Guide to Jewish Prayer and Practices offers a more profound understanding of Judaism - for practicing Jews and non-Jews alike - by explaining the key concepts of Jewish thought, including the sanctity of human...
Judaism Despite Christianity
The 1916 Wartime Correspondence Between Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Before they were both internationally renowned philosophers, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig were young German soldiers fighting in World War I corresponding by letter and forming the foundation of their deep intellectual friendship. Collected here, this correspondence provides an intimate...
Putting God Second
How to Save Religion from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Why have the monotheistic religions failed to produce societies that live up to their ethical ideals? A prominent rabbi answers this question by looking at his own faith and offering a way for religion to heal itself.
In Putting God Second, Rabbi Donniel Hartman tackles one of modern life’s...
The Jewish Approach to God
A Brief Introduction for Christians
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
A window into the Jewish understanding of God throughout
history and today—written especially for Christians.
In Jewish Scripture—Christianity's foundation—God's presence is everywhere: in nature, in history, and in the range of human experience. Yet the Torah, Maimonides, and 4,000 years...
by Alan Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Compiled by two internationally renowned experts, and with over 600 wide-ranging and informative entries, The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism provides the reader with an invaluable reference aid to all areas of the religion. Topics covered include:
*The religion's forms and history
*Its institutions,...