Judaism category: 3160 books
Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women
Patterns in a Feminist Sampler
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Jewish women of all ages and backgrounds come together in Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women to explore and rejoice in what they have in common--their heritage. They reveal in striking personal stories how their Jewishness has shaped their identities and informed their experiences in innumerable,...
by Daniel Rynhold, Michael J. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
What does one do as a Jewish philosopher if one is convinced by much of the Nietzschean critique of religion? Is there a contemporary Jewish philosophical theology that can convince in a post-metaphysical age? The argument of this book is that Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik (1903–1993) - the leading...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 7
Shabbat at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Opens up the traditional Jewish prayer book as a spiritual resource....This groundbreaking new series involves us in a personal dialogue with God, history and tradition, through the heritage of prayer. "The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by...
To Heal the World?
How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A devastating critique of the presumed theological basis of the Jewish social justice movement—the concept of healing the world.
What is tikkun olam? This obscure Hebrew phrase means literally “healing the world,” and according to Jonathan Neumann, it is the master concept that rests...
Nachman Krochmal
Guiding the Perplexed of the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
"A well-organized and engaging read."
-Religious Studies Review
The first in-depth look at...an important nineteenth century Jewish thinker and historian. Well-written [and] well- researched."
-The Jerusalem Post Magazine
"A significant contribution to our understanding of the...
by Netanel Miles-Yepez, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
"Hasidism is the willingness to make ourselves transparent to God’s grace and will, to live in the authentic Presence of God—nokhah p’nai Ha’Shem—as if facing God in every moment, allowing this awareness to change our behavior, to make sacred acts out of potentially profane and purely secular...
by Jordan Paper
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
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The Sinification of Judaism
Jordan Paper
In this chapter, Paper looks at the practices of the Chinese Jews and how they related in comparison to Judaism in general.
by Martin Buber, Maurice Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Hasidism, a controversial, mystical-religious movement of Eastern European origin, has posed a serious challenge to mainstream Judaism from its earliest beginnings in the middle of the eighteenth century. Decimated by the Holocaust, it has risen like a phoenix from the ashes and has reconstituted...
Eight Decades
The Selected Writings of W. Gunther Plaut
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
W. Gunther Plaut is one of Reform Judaism’s most acclaimed twentieth century rabbis and scholars. He is a gifted writer and intellectual whose ideas garner devotees throughout the world. Eight Decades: The Selected Writings of W. Gunther Plaut is a selection of his previously published articles...
Reason and Revelation before Historicism
Strauss and Fackenheim
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Can contemporary religion, and particularly Judaism, exist without being informed by history? This question was debated in 1940s New York by two German refugees who later rose to prominence — Leo Strauss, one of the twentieth century's most significant political philosophers, and Emil L. Fackenheim,...
How Repentance Became Biblical
Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Winner of the AAR's 2016 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies How Repentance Became Biblical tells the story of repentance as a concept. Many today, in both secular and religious contexts, assume it to be a natural and inevitable component of our lives. But, where did it...
Sanctuary of the Divine Presence
Hebraic Teachings on Initiation and Illumination
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Kabbalistic initiatory teachings for becoming a vessel for illumination, prophecy, and peace by creating an inner dwelling place for God’s divine presence
• Reveals practices for self mastery and revelation based on the holy design of the first Hebrew Sanctuary, the lives of the Hebrew...
Rabbi Max Heller
Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history.
Max Heller was a man of both passionate conviction and inner contradiction. He sought to be at the center of current affairs, not as...
The Origins of Anti-Semitism
Attitudes toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 1985
This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.