Judaism category: 3160 books
Hope, Not Fear
A Path to Jewish Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
A distinguished Jewish leader and philanthropist argues for openness and joy to reinvigorate Judaism in America.
After a lifetime of fighting the persecution of Jews, Edgar M. Bronfman has concluded that what North American Jews need now is hope, not fear. Bronfman urges North American Jewry...
The Invention of Judaism
Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in *The *Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism’s adherents only in the hands of the rabbis of late antiquity....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology. In opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal political order, the essays...
Rabbis of our Time
Authorities of Judaism in the Religious and Political Ferment of Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The term ‘rabbi’ predominantly denotes Jewish men qualified to interpret the Torah and apply halacha, or those entrusted with the religious leadership of a Jewish community. However, the role of the rabbi has been understood differently across the Jewish world. While in Israel they control legally...
The Chosen Wars
How Judaism Became an American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
“Weisman’s meticulously researched and fluently argued book is a compelling story of a glorious past. It is also a guide to the foreseeable future. The chosen wars rage on, but now, at least, we have a manual to help us fight them more mindfully.”—The Wall Street Journal
The Chosen...
by Louis H. Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Philo's Portrayal of Moses in the Context of Ancient Judaism presents the most comprehensive study of Philo's De Vita Mosis that exists in any language. Feldman, well known for his work on Josephus and ancient Judaism, here paves new ground using rabbinic material with philological precision to illuminate...
by Simon Glustrom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Jews have long employed a rich, intricate, image-filled Hebrew vocabulary to express both their deepest beliefs and the specific details of their daily religious lives. The Language of Judaism is a lively and unique exposition of that vocabulary's most central terms and concepts.
Responding to the...
by Nathan Glazer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
First published in 1957, Nathan Glazer's classic, historical study of Judaism in America has been described by the New York Times Book Review as "a remarkable story . . . told briefly and clearly by an objective historical mind, yet with a fine combination of sociological insight and religious...
by Seymour W. Itzkoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Judaism’s Promise, Meeting The Challenge Of Modernity follows Seymour W. Itzkoff’s well-received three-book series, Who Are the Jews? Judaism’s Promise, confronts the many revolutions that have reshaped Judaism over the centuries allowing it and its people a path of leadership into the modern...
The New American Judaism
How Jews Practice Their Religion Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A leading expert provides an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism today
American Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years,...
God Is in the Crowd
Twenty-First-Century Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**“Enthralling, searching, profound, an extraordinarily powerful work on Jewish identity in the twenty-first century.”—Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
A bold proposal for discovering relevance in Judaism and ensuring its survival, from a pioneering social activist, business leader, and fighter...
The Basic Beliefs of Judaism
A Twenty-first-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
One of the oldest monotheistic religions known to humankind, Judaism has withstood the tests of time. So what exactly are the tenets of this ancient faith that have been passed down over the millennia, and how do they apply to our lives in the 21st century? The Basic Beliefs of Judaism gives an updated...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture is an authoritative and accessible reference work for a twenty-first-century audience. Its entries, written by eminent scholars, define the spiritual and intellectual concepts and religious movements that distinguish Judaism and the Jewish experience;...
The Divine Source and World Unity
Selected Works of Adolph Moses for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Adolph Moses taught that the true religion of Moses is recognition of the one God for everyone everywhere, not a tribal religion forming the basis for an ethnic state in the Middle East. Moses emphasized the universal nature of Judaism and all true religion. He adopted the term "Yahvism"...