Judaism category: 3160 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
"It's no disgrace to be poor," observed Sholom Aleichem, "but it's no great honor, either." "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city," remarked George Burns, while Marc Chagall noted that "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and...
by Richard Elliott Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
In this groundbreaking and insightful new commentary, one of the world's leading biblical scholars unveils the unity and continuity of the Torah for the modern reader. Richard Elliott Friedman, the bestselling author of Who Wrote the Bible?, integrates the most recent discoveries in biblical archaeology...
by Leon Wieseltier
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Children have obligations to their parents: the Talmud says "one must honor him in life and one must honor him in death." Beside his father’s grave, a diligent but doubting son begins the mourner’s kaddish and realizes he needs to know more about the prayer issuing from his lips. So...
by Steven K. Baum
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
"Beneath the surface [of our society]," writes historian Robert Wistrich, are "ancient myths, dark hatreds, and irrational fantasies [that] continue to nourish antisemitism." But the larger question has to do with why we are so prone to believe them. To that end, Steven K. Baum has an answer. In this...
Ahad Ha'am Elusive Prophet
Ahad Ha'am and the origins of Zionism
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
An incisive biography of the guiding intellectual presence - and chief internal critic - of Zionism, during the movement's formative years between the 1880s and the 1920s. Ahad Ha'am ('One of the People') was the pen name of Asher Ginzberg (1856-1927), a Russian Jew whose life intersected nearly every...
The Paranoid Apocalypse
A Hundred-Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized...
Spiritual Activism
A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
"Avi doesn't only talk the talk, or even walk the walk. He writes the instruction manual. This book shows a way, perhaps not the only way but one indispensable way, of being an activist on behalf of the Jewish people. Read it and learn."
—from the Foreword by Alan M. Dershowitz I
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The Shtetl
New Evaluations
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2006
Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls—Jewish settlements—in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important...
Holocaust
An American Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Immediately after World War II, there was little discussion of the Holocaust, but today the word has grown into a potent political and moral symbol, recognized by all. In Holocaust: An American Understanding, renowned historian Deborah E. Lipstadt explores this striking evolution in Holocaust consciousness,...
The Essential Hayim Greenberg
Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Though well known to many scholars and critics in the field of Judaic studies, Hayim Greenberg remains relatively unknown. Since his death in 1953, Greenberg’s contributions to modern Jewish thought have largely fallen from view. In The Essential Hayim Greenberg: Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture,...
Evil
Confronting our Inner Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
What can anyone do in the face of terror? What difference could two teenagers make in a world filled with evil? The answer is as deep as it is obvious—we can humble ourselves and choose to love. We can resist oppression out of love for family and love for country. Love is what drives out fear. Love...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History...
by Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.
Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world...
The Devil That Never Dies
The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A groundbreaking--and terrifying--examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.
Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied...