Judaism: Life & Practice

Winner of the Goldberg Family Foundation Award 2021 What is the meaning of the Jewish rites of initiation known as bar and bat mitzvah in the mode...

What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras? What role did antisemitism and Holo...

What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras? What role did antisemitism and Holo...

The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering ...

Explore the richness and diversity of Jewish heritage and history with this expansive volume of quotes from Jewish figures. Immerse yourself in the...

From Hélène Jawhara Piñer, Gourmand World Cookbook Award-winning author of Sephardi: Cooking the History, comes a collection of 125 meticulously cr...

How Jews use media to connect with one another has profound consequences for Jewish identity, community, and culture. This volume explores how the ...

With an introduction by Moshe Rosman. Ada Rapoport-Albert has been a key player in the profound transformation of the history of hasidism that has ...

Barasch Rubinstein... does a marvelous job of bringing to vivid life the political and cultural landscape of Israel during terribly turbulent years...

Barasch Rubinstein... does a marvelous job of bringing to vivid life the political and cultural landscape of Israel during terribly turbulent years...

The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts w...

This volume offers a broad view on the statutes of Ashkenazic communities in their seventeenth and eighteenth century heyday. For the first time it...

From Tiberias With Love is a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history of a remarkably...

Hasidic groups have myriad customs. While ordinary Jewish law (halakhah) denotes the bar of holiness mandated for the ordinary Jew, these customs r...

From Tiberias, With Love is a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history of a remarkabl...

Sefer Brantshpigl is an important Yiddish religious/ethical work first published in Cracow, 1596. It was reprinted six more times into the beginnin...

Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the ac...

Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the ac...

Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this v...

This book is a collection of two dozen essays published over the past four decades on American Jewish history and culture. They discuss the role th...

Named one of the best haggadahs of all time by the Forward's Jay Michaelson. Welcome to a new kind of seder. Celebrate Passover with traditional se...

Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition is a groundbreaking collection that introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines vari...