Judaism category: 3160 books

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent...

'Mazzel tov' biedt een indringend, uniek inkijkje in de onbekende wereld van een gesloten orthodox-joods gezin in Antwerpen. Zes jaar lang begeleidt auteur Margot Vanderstraeten de kinderen van de familie Schneider bij hun huiswerk. Via dochter Elzira en zoon Jakov krijgt ze geleidelijk aan toegang...

The American-Jewish philosopher Berel Lang has left an indelible impression on an unusually broad range of fields that few scholars can rival. From his earliest innovations in philosophy and meta-philosophy, to his ground-breaking work on representation, historical writing, and art after Auschwitz,...

For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity. Later, his writings were crucial to the explosive developments in literary theory in the late seventies,...

This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Rosicrucian Order.  

This special book of sixteen thought-provoking essays includes discussions concerning subjects of particular importance to all people traveling the Mystic Path. The author encourages every reader to see through the illusions of the modern world so as to experience life’s true values.  Among...

La polémique religieuse représente une page importante dans l’histoire des relations entre juifs et chrétiens. L’Antiquité en a laissé de nombreux témoignages littéraires, dont des dialogues mettant aux prises un juif et un chrétien. Ces textes se présentent en général comme des comptesrendus...

This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest celebrates the 2015 Centennial Celebration of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC in America.

The legendary story of the ten lost tribes of Israel has resonated among both Jews and Christians down through the centuries: the compelling idea that some core group of humanity was ''lost'' and exiled to a secret place, perhaps someday to return triumphant. In The Ten Lost Tribes, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite...

Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany's Jews. Treating...

In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish—even when you’re not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction,...

A masterful introduction to the to the great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud In The Essential Talmud, the renowned Israeli scholar and teacher Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz succinctly describes the history, structure, and methodology of the sacred text by which the Jewish people have lived...

What if the Hebrew Bible wasn't meant to be read as 'revelation'? What if it's not really about miracles or the afterlife – but about how to lead our lives in this world? The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture proposes a new framework for reading the Bible. It shows how biblical authors used narrative...

The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul.My People's Prayer Book provides...