Judaism category: 3160 books
The Talmud
What It Is and What It Says
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Wherever Jews have settled and whatever languages they spoke, they created a community with a single set of common values. One law, one theology defined the community throughout their many migrations. A single book explains how this came about—the Talmud. By re-framing the Torah through sustained...
My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries: Vol. 5
Birkhot Hashachar (Morning Blessings)
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of todays most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. Unique, fresh, honest translations, with notes comparing other translations. This volume of the My Peoples Prayer Book series...
Ceremony & Celebration
Introduction to the Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
When did Rosh HaShana, the anniversary of creation, become a day of judgement? How does Yom Kippur unite the priest’s atonement with the prophet’s repentance? What makes Kohelet, read on Sukkot, the most joyful book in the Bible? Why is the remembrance of the Pesah story so central to Jewish...
When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone
The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
The “remarkable” story of the grass-roots movement that freed millions of Jews from the Soviet Union (The Plain Dealer).
At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the USSR. They lived a paradox—unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to...
Jewish Ethical Values
A Sourcebook of Classic Texts and Their Practical Uses for Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
With insightful commentary, passion and expertise, Rabbis Sherwin and Cohen guide us through selections from classic Jewish ethical literature, offering clear explanations of the historic context of each writing and thoughtful applications of their wisdom on the problems we grapple with today.
by Israel Drazin
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
The book addresses provocative questions such as:
Did the majority of Jews before Maimonides believe that God has a body?
Why did Maimonides and many rabbis disparage women?
Why did Maimonides extol intelligent non-Jews?
Why don t Jews say a prayer before such activities...
The Jewish Time Line Encyclopedia
A Year-by-Year History From Creation to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
Kantor writes from the perspective of a traditional Jew, covering events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of Babel, placing these within the chronology of history along with the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.
Imagining the Kibbutz
Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds...
By His Light
Character and Values in the Service of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
In this volume, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein explores the development of the religious personality. He advocates a life centered on the service of God, but recognizes multiple paths to this goal. Acknowledging that both the Jewish value system and human experience are multifaceted, he examines the relevant...
by Gustav Karpeles
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Jewish Literature and Other Essays by the German Jewish historian of literature and editor; son of Elijah, Karpeles Gustav Karpeles.Karpeles stimulated into active life the Jewish literary societies in Germany, but made himself most widely known through his writings on Heinrich Heine.
by Nahum Slouschz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Chapters include: In Italy, In German, In Poland and Austria, in Lithuania, The Romantic Movement, The Emancipation Movement, The Conflict with Rabbinism, Reformers and Conservatives, The National Progressive Movement, The Contributors to Ha-Shahar, The Novels of Smolenskin, and Contemporaneous Literature....
by Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by S. M. Dubnow
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Preface begins: "The author of the present essay, S. M. Dubnow, occupies a well-nigh dominating position in Russian-Jewish literature as an historian and an acute critic. His investigations into the history of the Polish-Russian Jews, especially his achievements in the history of Chassidism, have...
The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon
The Complete Translation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon’s influential and delightfully entertaining memoir
Solomon Maimon's autobiography has delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe, Schiller, and George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. The American...