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  • My Future Is in America

    Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants

    de Jocelyn Cohen, Daniel Soyer ...
    "Masterful . . . gripping immigrant narratives. A must read for anyone interested in immigration, American history, or the Jewish experience in America." -- Beth S. Wenger, Katz Family Chair in American Jewish History, University of PennsylvaniaIn 1942, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme "Why I Left the Old Country ... Leer más

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  • The Story of the Jews Volume Two

    Belonging: 1492-1900

    de Simon Schama ...
    Series Libro 2 - Story of the Jews
    In the second volume of this magnificently illustrated cultural history, the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of nineteenth century.A sweeping work of narrative history, volume two of this epic incorporates the stories of many who seldom figure in Jewish histories: not just the rabbis and the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Jewish Mysticism (Illustrated Edition)

    de J. Abelson ...
    Abelsons Jewish Mysticism is wonderful introduction to the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism. Abelson also discusses how other religions such as Christianity and Gnosticism have affected Jewish mysticism. This edition is illustrated and contains a table of contents for easier navigation. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Maimonides

    de Sherwin B. Nuland ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesMoses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work—The Guide for the Perplexed—attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God. He was a Jew living in a Muslim world, a rationalist living in a time of ... Leer más

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  • Kitab al Khazari, in English translation

    de Judah Hallevi ...
    Traducido por Hartwig Hirschfeld ...
    "Framed as a dialog between the king of the Khazars, a Central Asian kingdom, and a Rabbi, the Khazari is an exposition of late medieval Jewish philosophy. Legend has it that the king of the Khazars held a symposium to decide whether his people should convert to Judaism, Christianity or Islam. This book is a fictional account of the Jewish side of this debate. Judah Ha-Levi, the author, was born ... Leer más

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  • Jews and Power

    de Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesTaking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Women and Jewish Law

    The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today

    de Rachel Biale ...
    How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special concern to women. Combining a historical overview with a thoughtful feminist critique, this ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Jewish Festivals

    A Guide to Their History and Observance

    de Hayyim Schauss ...
    Why is the Jewish New Year designated on the Jewish calendar as the first day of the seventh month, and not of the first month? Why do women cover their eyes when reciting the blessing over the Sabbath candles? How did the Seder originate? Does the Book of Esther, read on Purim, mirror any real historical events?Long considered a classic, The Jewish Festivals provides a rich and charming account ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Resistance

    Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror

    de Nechama Tec ...
    Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience of Jews in wartime Poland, still ran into the same question again and again: Why didn't Jews ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Inheriting Abraham

    The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    de Jon D. Levenson ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own imagesJews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how the increasingly ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • From Berlin to Jerusalem

    Memories of My Youth

    de Gershom Scholem, Moshe Idel ...
    "A serene, lucid and stylish essay in intellectual autobiography that at the same time commemorates a vanished world."—Times Literary Supplement"An extraordinary life—one that itself takes on symbolic, if not mystical, significance." —Robert ColesFrom Berlin to Jerusalem portrays the dual dramas of the author's total break from his middle-class German Jewish family and his ever-increasing ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Theology of the Chinese Jews, 1000–1850

    de Jordan Paper ...
    A thousand years ago, the Chinese government invited merchants from one of the Chinese port synagogue communities to the capital, Kaifeng. The merchants settled there and the community prospered. Over centuries, with government support, the Kaifeng Jews built and rebuilt their synagogue, which became perhaps the world’s largest. Some studied for the rabbinate; others prepared for civil service ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD