Judaism category: 3160 books
Five Volumes of Spiritual Wisdom: The Wisdom of the Torah, The Wisdom of the Talmud, The Wisdom of the Koran, The Wisdom of Muhammad, and The Wisdom of Buddha
The Wisdom of the Torah, The Wisdom of the Talmud, The Wisdom of the Koran, The Wisdom of Muhammad, and The Wisdom of Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Words of ancient wisdom from some of the world’s most seminal texts
The Wisdom of the Torah is an instruction in the central beliefs of three world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But by observing the Torah, or the Hebrew Bible, as a collected work of multiple authors spanning...
Why the Jews?
The Reason for Antisemitism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
From the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism comes a completely revised and updated edition of a modern classic that reflects the dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century.
The very word Jew continues to arouse passions as does no other religious,...
Emancipation
How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today.
Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century...
A History of the Jews
The Indestructible Jews, The Jews in America, and Appointment in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Three books on Jewish heritage from the author of Jews, God, and History, “the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language” (Los Angeles Times).
With over a million and a half copies sold, Jews, God and History introduced readers to “the fascinating reasoning” of...
The Story of the Jewish People
Letters to Auntie Fori
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
A history of Judaism written in letters from historian Martin Gilbert to his acquaintance in India, who wants to learn more about her ancestry.
At her ninetieth birthday celebration in New Delhi, “Auntie Fori” revealed to her longtime acquaintance, Sir Martin Gilbert, that she was not of Indian...
by Joseph Telushkin
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
When, if ever, should lying be permitted?
If you've damaged a person's reputation unfairly, can the damage be undone?
Is a person who sells weapons responsible for how those weapons are used?
if the fetus is not a life, what is it? How, as an adult, can one carry out the command...
The Wicked Son
Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
As might be expected from this fiercely provocative writer, David Mamet’s interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internalized that hatred. Using...
One Voice
The Selected Sermons of W. Gunther Plaut
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
W. Gunther Plaut is an internationally recognized rabbi and scholar, and one of the greatest preachers of the twentieth century. He was born in Germany, but in 1935 fled the Nazis for the United States, where he became a rabbi. He served in Chicago and St. Paul, and, from 1961 to 1977 was Senior Rabbi...
Am I a Jew?
My Journey Among the Believers and Pretenders, the Lapsed and the Lost, in Searc h of Faith (Not Necessarily My Own), My Roots, and Who Knows, Even Myself
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
What makes someone Jewish?
Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there, his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. He went to an Episcopal school, where...
And They Shall Be My People
An American Rabbi and His Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “lucid, compassionate, [and] inspiring” chronicle of an American Rabbi’s struggle to keep the faith of his congregation (Chicago Tribune).
Journalist Paul Wilkes spent a year with Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum of Congregation Beth Israel in Worchester, Massachusetts. He silently observed the Rabbi’s...
What's Divine about Divine Law?
Early Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical and biblical roots of the Western idea of divine...
Tales of and about Jewish Youth during the Fin-de-siécle Era
An Annotated Gazette for a Transitional Decade in Upstate New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
This is the story of Jewish youth in upstate New York during the fin-de-siZcledecade of the nineteenth century. Ginsburg details periods of transition for these youths, such as exploring life at various Jewish orphanages, where children were sheltered, educated, and taught trade skills to support...
Torn at the Roots
The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
When Jewish neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdom held that Jews were uniformly liberal. This book explodes the myth of a monolithic liberal Judaism. Michael Staub tells the story of the many fierce battles that raged in postwar America over...
This is Not the Way
Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Few subjects invoke such passion as the history and current situation of Jews in Western societies. David Goldberg, a progressive Rabbi with many years' experience of dealing with other faiths and other Jews, takes the most difficult issues of this fraught relationship and confronts them head on....