Schocken imprint: 160 books
The Monk and the Philosopher
A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism -- not as a detached observer but...
Exploring Exodus
The Origins of Biblical Israel
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
The book of Exodus records the pivotal events in the formation of biblical Israel—the deliverance from slavery, the leadership of Moses, the wilderness wanderings, and the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai. Bible scholar Nahum Sarna, whose widely praised Understanding Genesis has become a standard...
The Great Partnership
Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
***National Jewish Book Awards 2012, Finalist***
Dorot Foundation Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience
An impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned book from one of the most admired religious thinkers of our time that argues not only that science and religion...
To Heal a Fractured World
The Ethics of Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
One of the most respected religious thinkers of our time makes an impassioned plea for the return of religion to its true purpose—as a partnership with God in the work of ethical and moral living.
What are our duties to others, to society, and to humanity? How do we live a meaningful life...
Saying Kaddish
How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
The definitive guide to Judaism’s end-of-life rituals, revised and updated for Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs
From caring for the dying to honoring the dead, Anita Diamant explains the Jewish practices that make mourning a loved one an opportunity to experience the full range of emotions—grief,...
The Beginning of Desire
Reflections on Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Turn the Scriptures over to Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg and what do you get? A unique blend of brilliant literary insights and theological wisdom, derived from a lifelong immersion in rabbinic traditions and lore. With amazing literary sensitivity, Zornberg ingeniously breathes new life into Adam and...
Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
The Four Questions Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
This fascinating, informative, and beautifully illustrated books translates the Passover seder's Four Questions into twenty-three languages and provides capsule histories of the Jews in the countries where the languages are spoken.
The recitation of the Four Questions at the beginning of the...
Antisemitism
Here and Now
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville,...
by Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
**Translated by Marion Wiesel
A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.**
Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his...
by Jack Riemer
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Forward by Sherwin B. Nuland
As Jack Riemer demonstrates in this collection of Jewish resources for mourning and healing, the Jewish tradition has much to offer those who seek its help in time of need. Here are personal as well as practical writings by contemporary authors about the Shivah...
Sonechka
A Novella and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Los Angeles Times said of Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Funeral Party, “In America we have friends, family, lovers, and parents–four kinds of love. Could it really be that in Russia they have more? Ludmila Ulitskaya makes it seem so.” In Sonechka: A Novella and Stories, Ulitskaya brings us tales...
Jewish Meditation
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Students of mediation are usually surprised to discover that a Jewish mediation tradition exists and that it was an authentic and integral part of mainstream Judaism until the eighteenth century.
Jewish Meditation is a step-by-step introduction to meditation and the Jewish practice of meditation...
The Loves of Judith
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A woman with three loves and a son with three fathers: a universal story of passion and personal destiny by the award-winning author of A Pigeon and a Boy.
When the mysterious Judith arrives in a small agricultural village in Palestine in the 1930s, she attracts attention of three men: Moshe, a...
by Gershom Scholem
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today.