Jewish category: 3083 books
The Sabbath
Entering God’s Rest
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Shares the meaning of the Sabbath for all people of God—Jews and Chrisitans.
Bad Rabbi
And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird—Jews who...
"Peering Through the Lattices"
Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
During the high Middle Ages, the tosafists flourished in northern Europe and revolutionized the study of the Talmud. These Jewish scholars did not participate in the philosophical and religious thought that concerned Christendom, and today they are seen as having played a limited role in mystical or...
Rome and Jerusalem
The Clash of Ancient Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
A magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem.
Martin Goodman—equally renowned in Jewish and in Roman studies—examines this conflict, its causes, and its consequences with unprecedented authority and thoroughness....
by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD; David Arnow, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
A diverse and exciting collection of commentaries on the traditional Haggadah Hebrew text in two volumes and with a new translation designed to let you know exactly what the Haggadah says. Introductory essays help you understand the historical roots of Passover, the development of the Haggadah, and how to make sense out of texts and customs that evolved from ancient times.
Operation Exodus
From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel's Fate
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The riveting chronicle of Jewish war survivors and their flight on the dramatic voyage of Exodus 1947, the international incident that gained sympathy for the formation of Israel
The underground Jewish group Haganah arranged for the purchase of a small American steamer as part of an ambitious...
by Michael L. Rodkinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
History Of The Talmud by Michael L. Rodkinson
One of the most significant religious texts in the world, The Talmud is a compilation of the teachings of major Jewish scholars from the classic period of rabbinic Judaism. In a range of styles, including commentary, parables, proverbs,...
by Waitman Wade Beorn
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
On October 10, 1941, the Jewish population of the Belarusian village of Krucha was rounded up and shot. This atrocity was not the routine work of the SS but was committed by a regular German army unit acting on its own initiative. Marching into Darkness is a bone-chilling exposé of the ordinary footsoldiers...
Kristallnacht
A Tale of Survival and Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2005
Penned by me, a survivor and eye witness to the chillimg events that took place on the 9th of November 1938 in all of Germany and the following day in Austria. Although barely past my 15th birthday. I remembered everything that had transpired and detailed the happenings in my family as well as revisiting...
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared
The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith.
The...
Jadid al-Islam
The Jewish “New Muslims” of Meshhed
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In 1839, Muslims attacked the Jews of Meshhed, murdering 36 of them, and forcing the conversion of the rest. While some managed to escape across the Afghan border, and some turned into true believing Muslims, the majority adopted Islam only outwardly, while secretly adhering to their Jewish faith. Jadid...
by Michael Grant
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The definitve guide to the history of ancient Israel.
The History of Ancient Israel covers the epic story of Jewish civilisation from its beginnings to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the Temple in AD 70. It deals with Israel's relations with the great empires which shaped its development...
The Long Lasting Journey
Notes of a Wondering Jew
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Over three thousand years separate the exodus of biblical Jews from the land of Egypt and the last wave of Jewish migrants to exit Russia. Today, hundreds of thousands of Russian Jews find themselves in the United States, Israel, and elsewhere. What made them depart this time around? What country...
Red, Black, and Jew
New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Between 1890 and 1924, more than two million Jewish immigrants landed on America's shores. The story of their integration into American society, as they traversed the difficult path between assimilation and retention of a unique cultural identity, is recorded in many works by American Hebrew writers....