Judaism: Life & Practice

Everyone has a place at the Passover table. Let's celebrate together!The Gateways Haggadah supports full participation in Passover Seder rituals an...

William Kurelek (19271977) is a beloved figure in Canadian art, a revered Ukrainian-Canadian painter whose works express his deeply felt immigrant ...

This book thoroughly examines Genizah fragments of Tractate Eruvin in the Babylonian Talmud from Cambridge University Library's Taylor Schechter co...

Winner of the 2021 Gierowski-Shmeruk PrizeShortlisted for the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award 2021Jews have been active participants in s...

This book begins by exploring the mysterious origins of an institution so familiar that most of us never wonder where it came fromthe seven-day wee...

This book begins by exploring the mysterious origins of an institution so familiar that most of us never wonder where it came fromthe seven-day wee...

The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed maj...

With the publication of his runaway bestseller Kosher Sex, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach gained instant fame as a sage and savvy commentator on public and ...

Oaths, vows, promises, curses all share family resemblances. They are performatives, carrying illocutionary force. Oaths have rightly been termed,...

I. Pulners dissertation, «Jewish Wedding Ceremonies» (1940), features an impressive volume of field ethnographic materials. Unfortunately, Pulner n...

The philosophy of religion is a discipline that explores a wide range of issues related to religious beliefs and practices. However, the field has ...

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of th...

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of th...

Isaacs Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, ...

Israel is a Jewish state. What is the meaning of this and how does it align with the democratic nature of the country? These are the questions at t...

Since the period in which the Jewish liturgy was standardized, there has hardly been a time when it was not somehow in a state of flux. Eric L. Fri...

For Louis Jacobs, the questthe process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faithwas a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a p...

The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this boo...

Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly seeking new ways to express themselves religiously, and important changes have occurred in consequence in th...

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

The Forgotten Singer: The Exiled Sister of I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer is made up of 46 evocative snapshots that portray what life was like for...

Judaism and Its Bible explores the profoundly deep and complex relationship between Jews, Judaism, and the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible has been ...

The image of Jews in East Asia is a strange mixture of opposites, a paradoxical blend of admiration and mockery, identification and denial. This bo...

The sukkah, the symbolic ritual home built during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, commemorates the temporary structures that sheltered the Isr...