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This book tells the story of the mystical Jewish system known as Kabbalah, from its earliest origins until the present day. We trace Kabbalah's development, from the second century visionaries who visited the divine realms and brought back tales of their glories and splendours, through the unexpected...

Elie Wiesel, saggista e scrittore di formazione ebraica. Premio Nobel per la pace nel 1986, ha scritto molti libri raccogliendo le storie e le testimonianze dei maestri hassid di tutto il mondo. Questa è la storia e gli insegnamenti di Rabbi Pinhas di Korets. Nel volume Contro la malinconia. Celebrazione hassidica II (Spirali 1989) è contenuta la versione cartacea.

An organized resistance movement of German officers with Jewish roots are deployed to different Nazi-occupied territories in Europe to assassinate key Nazi officers including Hitler and neutralize German military offensive in strategic areas occupied by the Nazi-Germans. Jora Kelmendi and her husband...

These recipes highlight cooking traditions from the five holidays that are most commonly observed by Jews in the 21st century: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Succot, Chanukah, and Passover. Because many recipes are not as well known today as a generation ago, photographs are used liberally to illustrate...

As government by the people, democracy has always had its proponents as well as opponents. What forms of government have Jewish leaders, both with and without actual political power, favored? Not surprisingly, many options have been offered theoretically and in practice. Perhaps more surprisingly,...

A treasure trove of forty-three religious, wisdom, riddle, and trickster Jewish folktales that have been told near the hearth, at the table, and in the synagogue for centuries. Sheldon Oberman, a master storyteller, retells the tales with simplicity and grace, making them perfect for performing and...

Twelve-year-old David takes his basketball along on summer vacation, hoping to find a court and some friends at the beach community. Whatever happens, he knows that he can count on Max, his grandfather, for good times and lots of laughs. He finds much more. Unexpectedly, David and Max, along with David’s...

A sustained, systematic and programmatic critique of what it means for a field or discipline of academic inquiry to come into existence and of the place of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in the modern unviersity.

In Polish Woods, which was first published in its English translation from its original Yiddish in 1938, is a historical novel describing the devolution of the Kotzker dynasty between the age of Napoleon and the Polish Revolt of 1863. Author Joseph Opatoshu reflects on the conflicting and even...

A play for older actors. This play presents a kaleidoscope of stories about war, displacement, revolution and liberation taking us on an emotional journey across three continents. Based on the actors’ personal and family experiences, the stories interweave and overlap, exploring moments of...

Izzy’s favorite part of Rosh Hashanah is Tashlich, a joyous ceremony in which people apologize for the mistakes they made in the previous year and thus clean the slate as the new year begins. But there is one mistake on Izzy’s “I’m sorry” list that he’s finding especially hard to say out...

In 1938 Britain, while war with Nazi Germany looms, the extravagant lifestyle of the English elite goes on. The so-called 'Season' is beginning, a traditional period during which marriageable young ladies of the aristocracy enjoy lavish balls and are 'presented' to the monarchy as they enter high...

This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences...

An elderly black grandmother passes on the story of the family’s Jewish origins to her young granddaughter, Carol Olivia. As family members flee the Spanish Inquisition, are kidnapped by pirates and eventually sail to America, one daughter in each generation is given the name Olivia, from the Hebrew...