Judaism category: 3160 books
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective
Convergence and Divergence
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Israeli History, this book presents the reflections of historians from Israel, Europe, Canada and the United States concerning the similarities and differences between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism primarily in Europe and the Middle East.
Spanning...
Zionism in an Arab Country
Jews in Iraq in the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Zionism in an Arab Country explores the relations between the Zionist establishment in Israel, and the Jewish community in Iraq. This relationship is centred on two organizations: a Zionist movement and a defense organization. By reviewing the activity of these organizations, Esther Meir-Glitzstein...
by Rafael Medoff, Chaim I. Waxman
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
The Jewish attachment to Zion is many centuries old. While the modern Zionist movement was organized a little more than a century ago, the roots of the Zionist idea reach back close to 4,000 years ago, to the day that the biblical patriarch Abraham left his home in Ur of the Chaldees to settle in...
by H. Polano
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The Talmud: Selections
by H. Polano
A Talmud miscellany.
The Talmud is one of the most important holy books of the Hebrew religion and of the world. No English translation of the book existed until the author presented this work. To this day, very little of the actual text seems available...
Messengers of God
A True Story of Angelic Presence and the Return to
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Elie Wiesel’s classic look at Job and seven other Biblical characters as they grapple with their relationship with God and the question of his justice.
“Wiesel has never allowed himself to be diverted from the role of witness for the martyred Jews and survivors of the Holocaust, and by...
by Dr. Ron Wolfson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
This indispensable guide to Jewish mourning and comfort provides traditional and modern insights into every aspect of loss. Dr. Ron Wolfson takes you step by step through the mourning process, including the specifics of funeral preparations, preparing the home and family to sit shiva, and visiting the grave.
Jesus the Rabbi
Unlocking the Hebraic Teaching of Yeshua
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
On these pages you will discover that during His time on earth, Jesus was not only a Jew, but a trained and qualified Rabbi—who had verified authority to be the leading teacher of His day. Where was Jesus from age 12 when He was in the temple, until we find Him at age 30 being baptized...
You Saved Me, Too
What A Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Fighting, Loving, And Swearing In Yiddish
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
by Michael Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1831. The Preface begins: "In giving an account of the Holy Land, an author, upon examining his materials, finds himself presented with the choice either of simple history on the one hand, or of mere local description on the other; and the character of his book is of course determined...
by Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This clarion call to rethink our moral and political behavior examines the idea of conscience and the role conscience plays in our relationships to government, law, ethics, religion, human nature and Godand to each other. From Abraham to Abu Ghraib, from the dissenting prophets to Darfur, Rabbi Harold...
Becoming Ottomans
Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many centuries. In this book, Julia Phillips...
The Crescent Moon and the Magen David
Turkish-Israeli Relations Through the Lens of the Turkish Public
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The nationalist outlook of the Turkish state since the beginning of the Republican era in 1923 targeted uniform identity formation. While Turkey did not recognize the existence of ethnic identities as long as they were Muslim, non-Muslims were challenging this ideal. During this social engineering,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Vibrant Jewish communities have deep roots in countries such as...
Zadokite Propaganda in the Late Second Temple Period
A Turning Point in Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Zadokite Propaganda in the Late Second Temple Period is a monumental epoch-breaking work of scholarship in ancient history and Jewish studies. This book examines centuries of scholarship on ancient Jewish group identity and official Jewish religion in the most tumultuous period of Jewish history,...