Judaism category: 3160 books
by Rev. Dr. Salatiel Sidhu
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
If you want to know the heart and soul of a religion, learn of its holidays. Holidays were originally holy days, the days set apart for to focus entirely on religious events and considerations. In this book, Dr. Sidhu puts his years of study and research to use providing both the followers of these...
by Kaufmann Kohler
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In offering herewith to the English-reading public the present work on Jewish Theology, the result of many years of research and of years of activity as President and teacher at the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, I bespeak for it that fairness of judgment to which every pioneer work is entitled....
A Prophetic Peace
Judaism, Religion, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Challenging deeply held convictions about Judaism, Zionism, war, and peace, Alick Isaacs's combat experience in the second Lebanon war provoked him to search for a way of reconciling the belligerence of religion with its messages of peace. In his insightful readings of the texts of Biblical prophecy...
Days of Awe
Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish. Seventy years later, a growing number of American Jews are instead expressing solidarity with Palestinians, questioning old allegiances to Israel. How did that transformation come...
The Name of God in Jewish Thought
A Philosophical Analysis of Mystical Traditions from Apocalyptic to Kabbalah
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
One of the most powerful traditions of the Jewish fascination with language is that of the Name. Indeed, the Jewish mystical tradition would seem a two millennia long meditation on the nature of name in relation to object, and how name mediates between subject and object. Even within the tide of the...
Rebecca Gratz
Women and Judaism in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century. Perhaps the best-known member of the prominent Gratz family of Philadelphia, she was a fervent patriot, a profoundly religious woman, and a widely known activist for poor women....
by Sarah Imhoff
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American...
JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
THE DIFFERENCES
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Dr. Rosmarin's popularly written yet authoritative volume forthrightly analyzes the basic differences between Judaism and Christianity. She maintains that there is an inherent conflict between the basic views of these mother/daughter religions, a conflict that cannot be resolved but that must be understood....
Creativity and Sexuality
A Kabbalistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Judaism openly recognizes, as an integral part of human nature, the enigmatic relationship between yetzer, or physical desire, and yetzirah, or spiritual creativity. Creativity and Sexuality, written as a fictional dialogue, clearly delineates the psychic interdependence of these two drives, as well...
Dinah's Daughters
Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The status of women in the ancient Judaism of the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic texts has long been a contested issue. What does being a Jewess entail in antiquity? Men in ancient Jewish culture are defined primarily by what duties they are expected to perform, the course of action that they take. The...
Holy Russia, Sacred Israel
Jewish-Christian Encounters in Russian Religious Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2019
Holy Russia, Sacred Israel examines how Russian religious thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, conceived of Judaism, Jewry and the ‘Old Testament’ philosophically, theologically and personally at a time when the Messianic element in Russian consciousness was being stimulated by events ranging...
by Lee Meyerhoff Hendler
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
As we come to recognize the need to nurture our spiritual lives as adults, The Year Mom Got Religion offers sensitive and intelligent wisdom from a woman who learned how awakening to religion can transformand disrupta life. A poignant personal testimony of the discoveries, achievements, and disappointments...
by Stephen Fried
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
From award-winning journalist Stephen Fried comes a vividly intimate portrait of American Judaism today in which faith, family, and community are explored through the dramatic life of a landmark congregation as it seeks to replace its legendary retiring rabbi--and reinvent itself for the next generation.
The...
Hasidism
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism
This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book’s unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement’s...