Judentum

The Fighting Rabbis

Albert I. Slomovitz

<p><b>Reveals the significant and sometimes heroic roles rabbis have played in our nation's defense</b><br><br>Rabbi Elkan Voorsanger received the Purple Heart fo...

Blacks in the Jewish Mind

Seth Forman

<p>Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, ...

Blacks in the Jewish Mind

Seth Forman

<p>Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, ...

The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals

Carole S Kessner

<p>Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties.<br> A...

Retreat Designs and Meditation Exercises

Suzanne G. Farnham

Step-by-step retreat designs, accompanying meditation exercises, and leader's guidelines based on the bestseller Listening Hearts, are presented in this unique resource. Songs, from the Listen...

Nachman Krochmal

Jay Harris

<p>"A well-organized and engaging read."<br>—<i>Religious Studies Review</i><br>The first in-depth look at...an important nineteenth century Jewish thinker ...

Moses Mendelssohn: Gesammelte Schriften. Jubiläumsausgabe / Band 9,2: Schriften zum Judentum III,2

Moses Mendelssohn

Die vorliegenden Teilbände bieten die Übersetzung von Mendelssohns Einleitung und die Umschrift seiner Pentateuch-Übersetzung (siehe JubA Bände 15 bis 18) in das deutsche Alphabet. Der erste T...

The Modern Jewish Experience

<p>The pace of scholarly research and academic publication in fields of Judaica has quickened dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. The major consumers and producers of t...

The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan

<p>Mordecai M. Kaplan, a pioneering figure in the reinterpretation and redefinition of Judaism in the 20th century, embraced religious liberalism, naturalism, and empiricism, and gave expres...

The Beta Israel

Steven B. Kaplan

<p>...balanced and well informed...a striking piece of scholarship aimed at demythologizing the origins of the Ethiopian Falasha.<br>-Foreign AffairsKaplan's definitive treatment w...

Historicism, the Holocaust, and Zionism

Steven T. Katz

<p>"[Of] the 12 well-crafted essays in this volume...the most useful are those dealing with the Holocaust."<br>—<i>Choice</i><br> "Especially recommende...

New Perspectives on Israeli History

Laurence J. Silberstein

<p>In this volume a distinguished group of international scholars draws from history, folklore, political anthropology, historiography, and cultural criticism to reexamine critical issues su...

Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History

<p>"An excellent overview of the history of Jewish mysticism from its early beginnings to contemporary Hasidism...scholarly and complex."<br>—<i>Library Journal</i&g...

Four Hasidic Masters and their Struggle against Melancholy

Elie Wiesel