Eliezer: 49 books
Laws of Shabbat Vol. 2
Peninei Halakha
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Peninei Halakha is a comprehensive series of books on Jewish law applied to today’s ever-changing world. In this series, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed’s well-organized, clear, and concise writing style brings the halakha, from principle to practical detail, to readers of all backgrounds. With over...
by Eliezer Schweid, Leonard Levin, Amnon Hadary
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of "Jewish culture." This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organizes and relates them from this vantage point. The first Jewish modernization movements perceived...
by Eliezer Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
You are not giving them up. You are saving them. You have my word that I will see they are safe. At wars end, I will reunite you. I promise.
A Holocaust story unlike any youve read before.
When Yanusz Dov vows to protect the family of his Jewish friend, Kalman Gold during the Nazi occupation...
by Eliezer Segal
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Reading Jewish Religious Texts introduces students to a range of significant post-biblical Jewish writing. It covers diverse genres such as prayer and liturgical poetry, biblical interpretation, religious law, philosophy, mysticism and works of ethical instruction. Each text is newly translated into...
Life After Cancer:
Coping with a Cancer Verdict
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
This is a story told by a cancer survivor unlike any other story: from the initial shock and disbelief of the diagnosis to the search for answers, second and third opinions, and alternative treatment options; from having to make very painful and life changing decisions to the eventual recovery and...
by Eliezer Segal
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
Academic rivalries, medical ethics, child brides, vegetarianism, aversion to pork, gift-giving—these and other familiar issues have a fascinating history among the diverse communities that have contributed to the Jewish tradition. Unfortunately this enthralling lore is often known only to scholarly...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
by Eliezer Z Prisman
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Written for undergraduates, this book is dedicated to fixed income fundamentals that do not require modeling the dynamics of interest rates. The book concentrates on understanding and explaining the pillars of fixed income markets, using the modern finance approach implied by the "no free lunch"...
Principles of Knowledge Management: Theory, Practice, and Cases
Theory, Practice, and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the new field of knowledge management. It approaches the subject from a management rather than a highly technical point of view, and provides students with a state-of-the-art survey of KM and its implementation in diverse organizations. The text covers...
by Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD, Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The most memorable prayer of the Jewish New Year—what it means, why we sing it, and the secret of its magical appeal.
Through a series of lively commentaries, over thirty contributors—men and women, scholars and rabbis, artists and poets, spanning three continents and all major Jewish denominations—examine...
The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration...
Words, Facts, and Phrases (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, and Out-Of-The-Way Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
What does the old American catchphrase “according to Gunter” mean? Where does the word “highfalutin” come from? Combing world literature for oddities not easily accessible to the general reader, the author offers a delightful A-Z compendium of quaint and curious lore, legend, fact, trivia, and history: a browser’s delight.
by Eliezer Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Jason Stone, Southern Californias premier plastic surgeon, has been through hell and back. While administering life-saving surgery during a mission to South America, his tent is held hostage by two international drug dealers, resulting in slain staff members and heat from the DEA. But it isnt over...
American Greed
Killers in White Coats and Executives in Dark Suits
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Jonathan Campbell is dead. Jonathan was eight years old. He was a normal, healthy boyuntil the night he died of spinal meningitis in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Jonathans death could have been prevented, if not for a string of events and choices that led to his untimely end. His doctor has...