Judaism: Life & Practice

This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the h...

Edith Stein’s Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916 is a treasure trove for the study of Stein’s youth and early adulthood, her approach to writing au...

2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Practice Judaism offers us unique—and often divergent—insights into c...

How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows ...

This book is about what makes food Jewish, or better, who and how one makes food Jewish. Making food Jewish is to negotiate between the local, regi...

Reprint with new Preface. In the 2002 edition of From Ideology to Liturgy, Eric Caplan examined Reconstructionism's interpretation and adaptation o...

In A Collage of Customs, Mark Podwal's imaginative and inventive interpretations of woodcuts from a 16th-century Sefer Minhagim (Book of Customs) a...

Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few cent...

This book analyses religion and change in relation to music within the context of contemporary progressive Judaism. It argues that music plays a ce...

An unexpected fusion of two major western religious traditions, Judaism and Christianity, has been developing in many parts of the world. Contempor...

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the charismatic leader of the Chabad Hasidic movement and its designated Messiah. Yet when he died in 1994, th...

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the charismatic leader of the Chabad Hasidic movement and its designated Messiah. Yet when he died in 1994, th...

An accessible and engaging treatment of the experience of Jewish summer camps.   This book tells the story of how Jewish camps have emerged as crea...

Finalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, given by the American Academy of Religion A groundbreaking...

Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday life Look around you as you walk down t...

‘…detailed and fair.’ - The Spectator‘An exhaustive, impressive achievement.’ - The TabletAs a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their insti...

Opening up multidimensional ideas, values, and practices of Humanistic Judaism to Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs, Contemporary Humanistic Juda...