Author: Koltun-Fromm, Ken Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: German rabbi, scholar, and theologian Abraham Geiger (18101874) is recognized as the principal leader of the Reform movement in German Judaism. In his new work, Ken Koltun-Fromm argues that for Geig...
Author: Freidenreich, David M. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize "us" and "them" through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating wit...
Author: Behar, Ruth Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it âHotel Cuba.â...
Author: N/A Publisher: Purdue University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. ...
Author: Weisberg, Dvora E. Publisher: Brandeis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Provocative exploration of levirate marriage in ancient Judaism that sheds new light on the Jewish family in antiquity and the rabbinic reworking of earlier Israelite law
Description: In a remote and dusty corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an ancient community of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic-the language of Jesus. Mostly...
Author: Biale, David Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale sh...
Author: Stolow, Jeremy Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""This is the first thorough study of the ArtScroll publishing 'phenomenon,' which is a major force in contemporary English-speaking Jewish life. It is deeply and richly informed by interdisciplinary ...
Author: Kim, Heerak Christian Publisher: The Hermit Kingdom Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Psalms of Solomon is an ancient Jewish writing from the Second Century BC. As a primary source written by a Jewish writer living during the turmoil of the desecration of the Jerusalem Temple by King A...
Author: Mann, Prof. Barbara E. Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Space and Place in Jewish Studies embraces how notions of “Jewish space,” diaspora, and home continue to resonate within contemporary discourse, bringing space to the foreground as a pract...
Author: Sternlicht, Sanford Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nearly two million Jewish men, women, and children emigrated from Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1924 and settled in, or passed through, the Lower East Side of New York City. Sanford Sternlicht tells...
Author: Irish, Nicholas Publisher: The Hermit Kingdom Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Does saying that Jesus Christ is a Jew hurt Jews and Jewish communities? This is the question that Nicholas Irish asks. Nicholas Irish's answer? YES! Irish provides ample evidence from history, societ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Purdue University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. ...
Author: Address, Richard Publisher: URJ Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Rabbi Richard Address has devoted his career to helping transform synagogues into caring communities. Now, in his most personal work to date, he explores how the notion of a caring community can be tr...
Author: Krasner, Jonathan B. Publisher: Brandeis Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The first full-scale history of the creation, growth, and ultimate decline of the dominant twentieth-century model for American Jewish education
Author: Myers, Andrea Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In The Choosing, Andrea Myers fuses heartwarming anecdotes with rabbinic insights and humor to describe what it means to survive and flourish on your own terms. Portioned around the cycle of the...
Author: Ingall, Carol K. Publisher: Brandeis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first volume to examine the contributions of women who brought the forces of American progressivism and Jewish nationalism to formal and informal Jewish education