Judaism category: 3160 books
by Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Philo of Alexandria was a Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher, who is now recognised as the most important representative of Hellenistic Judaism. His writings provide a concise view of the development of Judaism in the Diaspora. His essays seek to synthesise revealed faith and philosophic reason, and...
The Chosen Few
How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville...
by David Dvorkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Worldwide, the number of people who call themselves Jews is about 14 million.
They may all call themselves Jews, but what they mean by that name varies widely. These self−described Jews range from the most Orthodox, who have submitted themselves entirely to the imagined dictates of an imaginary...
by Moses Maimonides
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This file includes 11 books: Medieval Hebrew (featuring The Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish biblical lore and legend), Hebraic Literature (translations from the Talmud, Midrashim, and KabbalaTales and Maxims from the Midrash by Samuel Rapaport, The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirke Abot),...
by Harold S. Kushner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
From the beloved author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, deeply moving and illuminating reflections on what it means to live a good life.
As a congregational rabbi for half a century and the best-selling author of twelve books on faith, ethics, and how to apply the timeless wisdom...
Abraham's Curse
The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
"When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son..." --The Book of Genesis
The story...
In the Beginning: Hijacking of the Religion of God
Volume 1: Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Preface It was shortly after I had graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1980, with a PhD Degree specializing in fracture mechanics and failure analysis of materials and structures, that I discovered the dire need for this book. This undertaking began to take shape in the early 1980s with...
At Home in Exile
Why Diaspora Is Good for the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
An eloquent, controversial argument that says, for the first time in their long history, Jews are free to live in a Jewish state—or lead secure and productive lives outside it
Since the beginnings of Zionism in the twentieth century, many Jewish thinkers have considered it close to heresy to...
by Elisabeth Roudinesco
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
What does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions?
We need to return to the Jewish question. We need, first, to distinguish between the anti-Judaism of medieval times, which persecuted...
Haskalah and Beyond
The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) — the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe. It represents the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the...
Inventing New Beginnings
On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Inventing New Beginnings is the first book-length study to examine the conceptual underpinnings of the "Jewish Renaissance," or "return" to Judaism, that captured much of German-speaking Jewry between 1890 and 1938. The book addresses two very fundamental, yet hitherto strangely...
by Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
A powerful collection of writings about Rosh Hashanah that will add depth and holiness to your experience of the spiritual New Year.This compelling companion to Yom Kippur Readings helps create a bridge between the words of our ancestors and the meanings, themes and ideas that are the central spiritual...
Inheriting Abraham
The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how...
Maimonides, Spinoza and Us
Toward an Intellectually Vibrant Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
A challenging look at two great Jewish philosophers, and what their thinking means to our understanding of God, truth, revelation and reason.
Moses Maimonides (11381204) is Jewish historys greatest exponent of a rational, philosophically sound Judaism. He strove to reconcile the teachings of...