Judaism category: 3160 books
The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible
How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of...
God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes
Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
A Powerful, Life-Affirming New Perspective on the Holocaust
Almost ninety children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors—theologians, scholars, spiritual leaders, authors, artists, political and community leaders and media personalities—from sixteen countries on six continents reflect...
The Modern Jewish Canon
A Journey Through Language and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2001
What makes a great Jewish book? What makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse, one of the leading scholars in the field of Jewish literature, sets out to answer these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon. Wisse takes us on an exhilarating journey through language and culture, penetrating...
The Holy Fire
The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto is a journey into the mind and spirit of a sublime hasidic master in his moments of joy and tranquillity, and later, in his time of personal and communal catastrophe. The reader takes a voyage into the rich...
My Life in Jewish Renewal
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This powerful memoir chronicles the life of one of America’s most celebrated rabbis—Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi, or “Reb Zalman” as he is fondly known to friends and followers. The book traces his life from a youth in the shadow of the Nazis through the tumultuous 1960s in America to...
Elie Wiesel
Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
“Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel’s interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more.” —Publishers Weekly
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the...
An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers
From Spinoza to Soloveitchik
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
Highlighting well-known Jewish thinkers from a very wide spectrum of opinion, the author addresses a range of issues, including: What makes a thinker Jewish? What makes modern Jewish thought modern? How have secular Jews integrated Jewish traditional thought with agnosticism? What do Orthodox thinkers...
Wrestling with God
Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
This volume presents a wide-ranging selection of Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust. It will be the most complete anthology of its sort, bringing together for the first time: (1) a large sample of ultra-orthodox writings, translated from the Hebrew and Yiddish; (2) a substantial selection...
Why Is America Different?
American Jewry on its 350th Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Does the American Jewish experience represent a singular communal circumstance, or does it repeat, with obvious and unavoidable variation, the older European pattern of Jewish existence? In 2004, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the American Jewish community, this question...
by Rachel Elior
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
How and why a person comes to be possessed by a dybbuk—the possession of a living body by the soul of a deceased person—and what consequences ensue from such possession, form the subject of this book. Though possession by a dybbuk has traditionally been understood as punishment for a terrible...
Who We Are
On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond.
E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The theological problems facing those trying to respond to the Holocaust remain monumental. Both Jewish and Christian post-Auschwitz religious thought must grapple with profound questions, from how God allowed it to happen to the nature of evil.
The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology brings...
by Jonathan L. Friedmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music is a collection of over 700 quotations culled from an array of sources, including rabbinic and theological texts, sociological and anthropological studies, and historical and musicological examinations. The book is divided into five chapters: What Is Jewish Music?;...
Emotions in Jewish Music
Personal and Scholarly Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Emotions in Jewish Music is an insider’s view of music’s impact on Jewish devotion and identity. Written by cantors who have devoted themselves to the study and execution of Jewish music, the book’s six chapters explore a wide range of musical contexts and encounters. Topics include the spiritual...