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Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought: A JPS Scholar of Distinction BookIn this collection of essays, Dr. Moshe Greenberg, one of world's foremost Bible experts, stays true to the task of the classical Jewish scholar: to enhance the Bible in the eyes of the faith/cultural community by seeking to set forth existential values embodied in...
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The Jews of Egypt: From Ramses II to Emperor HadrianThis is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the Jewish people in the land of Egypt - shrouded in the mists of biblical history under the Pharaohs; the strange intermezzo of the Jewish mercenary detachment on the island of Elephantine on the...
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Mystic Tales from the ZoharThis book includes translations of eight of the most interesting and developed narratives found in the Zohar, the central medieval Jewish mystical text. Wineman's artful translation, together with commentaries and notes, reveals the richness of the Zohar.Aryeh Wineman is the author of The Hasidic...
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Daughters of the KingDaughters of the King explains women's involvement in and around the synagogue from its antecedents in the biblical period to contemporary times. The role of women in the synagogue is a most timely but potentially divisive issue. Grossman and Haut have demonstrated the historical...
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Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of Hebrew Union College, Skirball Museum, and Klau LibraryThe illustrated Ketubbah is a unique artifact of Judaica. It is, first of all, a legal document virtually unchanged since talmudic times, but it is also an artistic expression of aesthetic tastes and social mores from centuries of Jewish wandering and just as much...
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Saturn's JewsThis book explores the phenomenon of Saturnism, namely the belief that the planet Saturn, the seventh known planet in ancient astrology, was appointed upon the Jews, who celebrated the Sabbath, the seventh day of the Jewish week. Moshe Idel details how the anonymous, late...
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The Marrano Legacy: A Contemporary Crypto-Jewish Priest Reveals Secrets of His Double LifeThe Marrano Legacy chronicles the astounding, intensely personal correspondence between two strangers from different countries who shared the unusual experience of discovering in their teens that they were Jews: Simon, a descendant of Spain's medieval Marranos who submitted to baptism to escape the Inquisition,...
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The Kregel Pictorial Guide to the TempleThe grandeur and day-to-day activities of Herod's temple are brought to life once again in complete detail and full color.Author: Robert BackhousePublisher: Kregel PublicationsPublished: 09/06/1996Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 10.39h x 7.54w x 0.20dISBN: 9780825430398
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Jews in Latin AmericaThe product of many years of intensive work, this volume represents the first time a comprehensive study of such magnitude and scope has been prepared for the reading public. Combining the skills of journalist and scholar, the author has composed a work that is...
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El Libro Judio del Por Que = Jewish Book of WhyUtilizes a question and answer format to explain the whys and wherefores of Jewish death and mourning rites and rituals.Author: Alfred J. KolatchPublisher: Jonathan David PublishersPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 323Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.50w x 0.98dISBN: 9780824603755Language: SpanishReview Citation(s): Booklist 10/01/1997 pg. 348This title...
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The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side: A Retrospective and Contemporary View, 2nd EditionIt has often been said that nowhere in the United States can one find a greater collection of magnificent and historic synagogues than on New York's Lower East Side. As the ultimate destination for millions of immigrant eastern European Jews during the late 19th...
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Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic ImaginationThis long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space continuum to establish what will surely be a highwater...
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Urban Origins of American JudaismThe urban origins of American Judaism began with daily experiences of Jews, their responses to opportunities for social and physical mobility as well as constraints of discrimination and prejudice. Deborah Dash Moore explores Jewish participation in American cities and considers the implications of urban...
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Brother Jesus: The Nazarene Through Jewish EyesNo matter what we would make of Jesus, says Schalom Ben-Chorin, he was first a Jewish man in a Jewish land. Brother Jesus leads us through the twists and turns of history to reveal the figure who extends a "brotherly hand" to the author...
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Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish OrthodoxyThe story of modern Orthodox Judaism is usually told only from the perspective of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Ellenson's work, a thorough examination of the life and work of one of Hirsch's contemporaries, Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer, reveals another important contributor to the creation of...
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Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943Jews in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasing threat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guarded ghetto away from the non-Jewish Polish population. Within the ghettos, a small but distinct group existed: the assimilated, acculturated,...
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Homo Mysticus: A Guide to Maimonides's Guide for the PerplexedIn his seminal work, A Guide for the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) laid the foundation for the future development of Jewish philosophy. In the centuries following his death, his book became the exemplar of reasoning faith. Its purpose was to reconcile Aristotle with Jewish...
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Paths in UtopiaIn this work, Buber expounds upon and defends the Zionist experiment - a federal system of communities on a co-operative basis. He looks to the anarchists Proudhon, Kropotkin and Gustav Landauer, but selects only that part of their doctrines appropriate to his case.Author: Martin...
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Elie Wiesel: Between Memory and HopeA deeply reflective work, written by a number of eminent scholars both Jewish and Christian who represent a variety of disciplines and perspectives, this book explores basic issues in Wiesel's work -the nature of God, madness, silence, horror, and hope. With essays by such...
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The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life2006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish ThoughtLong the object of curiosity, admiration, and gossip, rabbis' wives have rarely been viewed seriously as American Jewish religious and communal leaders. We know a great deal about the important role played by rabbis in building American...
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