Jewish category: 3083 books
by David Arnow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
A guide to help you invigorate your Seder, create lively discussions, and make personal connections with the Exodus story today.For many people, the act of simply reading the Haggadah no longer fulfills the Passover Seders purpose: to help you feel as if you personally had gone out of Egypt. Too often,...
Here, There Are No Sarahs
A Woman's Courageous Fight Against the Nazis and Her Bittersweet Fulfillment of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Stripped of her name, 18-year-old "Sonia" Shainwald went to war without basic training, without equipment, without food or any of the essentials necessary to fight the Germans. Urging her family and neighbors to leave a wretched hiding place during the liquidation of their ghetto, she and her parents...
by Michael Strassfeld
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The coeditor of the enormously popular Jewish Catalog "help[s] readers understand more fully the meaning of our holidays and thereby to observe these festivals . . . with a greater devotion and joy."--Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler
Jesus, the Man and the Myth
A Jewish Reading of the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
King of Israel?
Poor Jesus. Had he remained in Nazareth working in Joseph's carpentry shop, he would have been offered a share of the business. He could have settled down, married a nice Jewish girl and enjoyed a happy home life with his wife and children. He would not have gone to Jerusalem,...
Beyond Expulsion
Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Beyond Expulsion is a history of Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. This study shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian countryside continued to maintain relationships...
by Pontus Rudberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
"We will be judged in our own time and in the future by measuring the aid that we, inhabitants of a free and fortunate country, gave to our brethren in this time of greatest disaster." This declaration, made shortly after the pogroms of November 1938 by the Jewish communities in Sweden,...
The Nightmare Dance
Guilt, Shame, Heroism and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Since the 1960s, the Holocaust has been presented as an aberration, confined to Germany and the Nazi leaders who held power during the twelve years after 1933. Responsibility has been heaped upon a few villains in jackboots and black uniforms, whose names have become synonymous with evil. Yet behind...
by Alfred Edersheim
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In this classic work, Alfred Edersheim (1825 –1889) provides a detailed look at the Temple, the Priesthood, the Sacrificial system and Jewish Festivals. Edersheim himself was a Messianic Jew and gives great insights from historical sources, Jewish tradition and teaching. He was a well-known pastor...
Jews and other foreigners
Manchester and the rescue of the victims of European Fascism, 1933-40
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Between 1933 and 1940, Manchester accepted almost eight thousand refugees from Fascist Europe. Among these were Jewish academics expelled from universities across Germany, Austria, Spain and Italy. Around two hundred were children from the Basque country, temporarily evacuated to Britain in 1937,...
Inventing the Israelite
Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
In this book, Maurice Samuels brings to light little known works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. These writers, Samuels asserts, used fiction as a laboratory to experiment with new forms of Jewish identity relevant to the modern world....
by Isaac Landman
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Stories of the Prophets Before the Exile by the American Reform rabbi, author and anti-Zionist activist,Isaac Landman.He was editor of the ten volume Universal Jewish Encyclopedia.He was a leader in Jewish–Christian ecumenism.Landman had also been a prominent opponent of Zionism: when, in 1922,...
Jews in the Gym
Judaism, Sports, and Athletics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in-and thinking about-sports for more than two thousand years.
The articles in this volume scan a wide chronological...
Yankee Yinglish
A sociolinguistic study of Yiddish English in New York
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
For more than one century, Yiddish has been in contact with American English. To examine the linguistic traces of this contact we first retrace the background of Jewish immigration to the United States and present a history of Yiddish as a “contact language”.
We then proceed to the diachronic,...
Holocaust Memory Reframed
Museums and the Challenges of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Holocaust memorials and museums face a difficult task as their staffs strive to commemorate and document horror. On the one hand, the events museums represent are beyond most people’s experiences. At the same time they are often portrayed by theologians, artists, and philosophers in ways that...