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The Thirteen Petalled Rose: Discourse on the Essence of Jewish
A classic of Jewish mysticism by the world renowned scholar in which he seeks to answer the major questions asked by the modern Jew about the nature of his/her existence...
The Talmud - A Biography: Banned, censored and burned. The book they
Containing nearly two million words in 37 volumes, the Talmud covers topics as diverse as law, faith, medicine, magic, ethics, sex, humour and prayer. It is a highly complex, profoundly...
What Do Jews Believe?: The Customs and Culture of Modern Judaism
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A valuable resource for anyone seeking a basic understanding of what being Jewish is all about. Judaism is full of different opinions. In fact, no single definition of Judaism is...
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
The Bible is the central book in Western culture, yet extraordinarily there is no proper history of it. This exceptional work, by one of the world's leading Biblical scholars, provides...
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible
The book titled The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by the author Robin Lane Fox (Reader in Ancient History at Oxford University and a Fellow of New...
Abraham: The First Jew
The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism's...
Space and Time under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the
A new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron. In Space and Time under Persecution , Guy Miron considers...
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and
In Stranger in a Strange Land , Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom Scholem, whose once prominent reputation - as a Freud-like interpreter of the inner world of...
The Theology of the Book of Kings
1 and 2 Kings unfolds an epic narrative that concludes the long story of Israel's experience with institutional monarchy, a sequence of events that begins with the accession of Solomon...
Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the
Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic...
The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible
An examination of the "forbidden" stories of the Bible, which are also retold in contemporary English alongside the original text. They are among the most startling and explicit stories in...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can...
The Other Side of the Story
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The book titled The Other Side of the Story by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Kafka's Last Love
In this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka's heart and kept his literary flame alive for decades. This was Dora Diamant,...
The Rock: A Tale of Seventeenth-century Jerusalem
In the beginning there was a rock deemed the point of creation of the cosmos and the place of assembly on the Day of Judgement. Then there was a dome...
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the
THE NEW BOOK THE TRAITORS CIRCLE COMING SOON FROM JONATHAN FREEDLAND SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE, RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE...
In the Name of God: A History of Christian and Muslim Intolerance
Christianity is tolerant, Islam is not. Islam is an inherently violent, ossified religion which can never come to terms with the Enlightenment. How right or wrong are these assumptions? In...
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and
Gershom Scholem, the great humanist thinker and founder of modern Kabbalah, is all but forgotten today. But here, in a biography as daring and inquisitive as its subject, George Prochnik...
On Antisemitism: A Word in History
What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? For most of history, antisemitism has been understood as a menace from Europe's political Right, the province of blood-and-soil ethno-nativists who...
Testament (ABC TV Series): The Bible and History
The book titled Testament (ABC TV Series): The Bible and History by the author John Romes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Fifth "Times" Book of Best Sermons
A collection of sermons entered into the Times newspaper's competition for the best sermon in the UK. For the second consecutive year the competition now includes sermons from the Jewish...
What's a Nice Jewish Boy Like You Doing in a Place Like This?"
"You're studying to be a lawyer then...?" "No, not a lawyer either! "Not a doctor, not a lawyer, then maybe a businessman? You want to go into business. You'll be...
The Jews in Christian Art: An Illustrated History
The book titled The Jews in Christian Art: An Illustrated History by the author Heinz Schreckenberg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Amos: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
A new translation and commentary on the book of Amos, forgoing speculation about his life to provide an innovative analysis of the book itself As part of the Hebrew Bible,...
Writing a Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron
In this insightful book, an eclectic and distinguished group of writers explore the Jewish experience in the Americas and celebrate the legacy of Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895-1989), a preeminent scholar...
The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization
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A 34-page booklet and a 12-foot illustrated accordion fold pull-out section make up this thorough, and thoroughly entertaining book. This oversized hardcover book makes a beautiful, unique gift, or an...
Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in
As child, Meryl Frank was the chosen inheritor of family remembrance. Her aunt Mollie, a formidable and cultured woman, insisted that Meryl never forget who they were, where they came...
God Is Not Great
The bestselling cult classic god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways...
The Talmud: A Selection
After the Bible this is the most important foundational text in Judaism The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible...
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation- how it came to be written, how its contents were selected - and how it really relates to the religions that endorse...
A History of Judaism
'A definitive study' (Financial Times) of Judaism, from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions and, despite the extraordinarily varied...
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)
A newly updated edition of the landmark translation by the esteemed Biblical scholar The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean desert between 1947 and 1956 transformed our...
Printing the Talmud: A History of the Individual Treatises Printed
Winner of the 1999 Association of Jewish Libraries Research and Special Libraries Division Award for Bibliographies. A scholarly study of the individual Talmudic tractates published in the first half of...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can...
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine
The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
Amos: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Author: Goran EidevallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 608g, 312 pagesPublished: Yale University Press, United States, 2018A new translation and commentary on the book of Amos, forgoing speculation about his life...
Medieval Muslims, Christians and Jews in Dialogue: The Apparicion Maistre Jehan de Meun of Honorat Bovet. A Critical Edition with English Translation. (MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE TEXTS & STUDIES)
Author: Michael Hanly
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This is Not the Way: Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel
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The Anointed
Author: Michael Arditti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 337 Michal, Abigail and Bathsheba: three women trapped by circumstance. They are the property of husbands, fathers and grandfathers; their own lives...
Kabbalah: An Illustrated Introduction to the Esoteric Heart of Jewish Mysticism
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The Swastika's Darkening Shadow: Voices before the Holocaust
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Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews
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There Once Was a World: Nine Century Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
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The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport
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Author: Jonathan Lichtenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son....
When The Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad
Author: Mona Yahia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Lina is trying to lead a normal girl's life in Baghdad, but being Jewish in an Arab country is...