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  • The Necessity of Exile

    Essays from a Distance

    by Shaul Magid ...
    A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations’ answers to these questions, and the future of Jewish life will depend on how we respond to them in our own time. In The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, celebrated rabbi and scholar Shaul ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • American Post-Judaism

    Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society

    by Shaul Magid ...
    How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness. He discusses pragmatism and spirituality, monotheism and post-monotheism, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • American Post-Judaism

    Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society

    by Shaul Magid ...
    Series series Religion in North America
    How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness. He discusses pragmatism and spirituality, monotheism and post-monotheism, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meir Kahane

    The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical

    by Shaul Magid ...
    The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968, declaring that Jews must protect themselves by any means necessary. He immigrated to Israel in 1971, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Jewish Anti-Zionism

    A Historical Anthology

    Edited by Shaul Magid, Zev Mishell ...
    A collection of texts illustrating the complex reasons why Jews have contested or rejected the Zionist ideal over more than a centuryIn the decades since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, many have equated Zionism with Jewish identity—and anti-Zionism with antisemitism. Few remember now that the Zionist movement triggered passionate debate among Jews, with many expressing ambivalence or ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Hasidism Incarnate

    Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism

    by Shaul Magid ...
    Series series Encountering Traditions
    Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tradition. Ironically enough, this occurred even as modern Judaism increasingly dovetailed with Christianity with regard to its ethos, aesthetics, and attitude toward ritual and faith. Shaul Magid argues that the Hasidic movement in Eastern Europe ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism

    by Elisheva Carlebach, Emily Kopley, Cosana Eram, Matt Goldish, Shai Held, Motti Inbari, Martin Kavka, Shaul Magid, Benjamin Pollock, Annette Reed, Kenneth Seeskin, David Shatz, Menachem Kellner ...
    Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Occupied Words

    What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

    by Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven Weitzman, Shaul Magid, Francesca Trivellato ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Occupied Words

    What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

    by Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven Weitzman, Shaul Magid, Francesca Trivellato ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Fragments of a Future Scroll

    Hasidism for the Aquarian Age (50th Anniversary Edition)

    by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Jericho Vincent, Arthur Kurzweil ...
    Narrated by Tirzah Firestone, Shaul Magid, Jericho Vincent, Arthur Kurzweil, Eden Pearlstein0 ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 4 min

    The 50th anniversary edition of a paradigm-shifting work by one of the most important Jewish figures in postwar America.By the time of his death, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014), also known as Reb Zalman, had transformed the landscape of Judaism in America. The son of liberal Hasidic Jews, a Holocaust refugee, and a devoted Lubavitcher Hasid, Reb Zalman eventually left the traditional Hasidic ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Studying Hasidism

    Sources, Methods, Perspectives

    by Maya Balakirsky Katz, Gadi Sagiv, Levi Cooper, David Assaf, Shaul Magid, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Uriel Gellman, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Vladimir Levin, Edwin Seroussi ...
    Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly interest in Hasidic Judaism and Hasidic Jews is growing, but there is no textbook dedicated to research methods in the field, nor sources for the history of Hasidism have been properly recognized. Studying ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament

    Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels

    by Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, Peter Salovey ...
    Translated by Jordan Gayle Levy ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Born in Slutzk, Russia, in 1805, Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik is a largely forgotten member of the prestigious Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. Before Hayyim Soloveitchik developed the standard Brisker method of Talmudic study, or Joseph Dov Soloveitchik helped to found American Modern Orthodox Judaism, Elijah Soloveitchik wrote Qol Qore, a rabbinic commentary on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Qol Qore ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD