Judaism category: 3160 books
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm
The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors.
When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool...
by Nancy Schoenburg, Stuart Schoenburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Lithuanian Jewish Communities is a remarkable resource for students of Lithuanian Jewish history and for people descended from Lithuanian Jews. This volume lists, in alphabetical order, the major Jewish communities that existed in Lithuania before World War II. The name of each community is accompanied...
Women and Jewish Law
The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special...
by Dagobert D. Runes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In this work, Baruch Spinoza, one of the cardinal thinkers of all times, answers the eternal questions of man and his passions, and God and nature. In the deepest sense, this dictionary of Spinoza’s philosophy is a veritable treasury of sublime wisdom.
In his introduction, Dagobert D. Runes,...
by Kenneth Hart Green
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
In Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides, Kenneth Hart Green explores the critical role played by Maimonides in shaping Leo Strauss’s thought. In uncovering the esoteric tradition employed in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed, Strauss made the radical realization that other ancient and...
Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror
Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience...
by anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Medieval collections of Jewish biblical lore and legend. From Volume 4 of The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East. This volulme includes the Tanhuma Midrash, poems of Judah Halevi, the Book Cusari, Commentaries of Rabbi Ben Ezra, Advice of Maimonides, and The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela.
The Hermetica
The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The first easily accessible translation of the esoteric writings that inspired some of the world's greatest artists, scientists, and philosophers.
Here is an essential digest of the Greco-Egyptian writings attributed to the legendary sage-god Hermes Trismegistus (Greek for thrice-greatest Hermes)?a...
by Christian Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Written by Christian Bernard, Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, this book represents the thoughts and ideas of a life-long Rosicrucian.
Christian Bernard serves as the President and Imperator of the worldwide Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, better known as the Rosicrucian...
The Making of Jewish Revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement
Community and Identity during the Russian Revolution and its Immediate Aftermath, 1905–07
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This book examines the emotional aspects of revolutionary experience during a critical turning point in both Russian and Jewish history - the 1905 revolution. Shtakser argues that radicalization involved an emotional transformation, which enabled many young revolutionaries to develop an activist attitude towards reality.
TREYF
My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
From the Washington Post columnist and James Beard Award-winning author of Poor Man’s Feast comes a story of seeking truth, acceptance, and self in a world of contradiction...
Treyf: According to Leviticus, unkosher and prohibited, like lobster, shrimp, pork, fish without scales, the mixing of...
The Art of Blessing the Day
Poems with a Jewish Theme
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Winner of the 2000 Paterson Poetry Prize
About Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and...
German Jews in Palestine, 1920–1948
Between Dream and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
With an approach both personal and symbolic, this volume leads us through the imagined worlds, delusions, discoveries, questions, hopes, ambivalences, anxieties, and historical, cultural and psychological dynamics of six German-Jewish writers and intellectuals who arrived in Palestine between the...
To Live with Hope, to Die with Dignity
Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos and Camps
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Jewish armed resistance during the Holocaust has been amply documented, debunking the stereotypical view of the Jews as passive victims of Hitler and the Nazis. The stories of the revolts in a number of ghettos and camps have been told and retold. Jewish participation in partisan activities has been...