Judaism: Life & Practice

This book is dedicated to an analysis of the writings of modern religious Jewish thinkers who adopted a neo-fundamentalist, illusionary, apologetic...

Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire ...

By its very nature, the ideals of religion entail sin and failure. Judaism has its own language and framework for sin that expresses themselves bot...

By its very nature, the ideals of religion entail sin and failure. Judaism has its own language and framework for sin that expresses themselves bot...

Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire ...

In San Isidro, Lima, the only Jewish school in Peru stands on a street widely known as Los Manzanos (The Apple Trees) but whose name changes to Mai...

Bookstores in Chinese cities are stocked with dozens of Chinese-language books on how Jews conduct business, manage the world, and raise their chil...

No longer confined to traditional institutions devoted to Talmudic studies, havruta work, or the practice of students studying materials in pairs, ...

This book discusses the development of practices associated with customs and artifacts used in Jewish ceremonies when viewed from the vantage of an...

No longer confined to traditional institutions devoted to Talmudic studies, havruta work, or the practice of students studying materials in pairs, ...

Inquiry, questioning, and wonder are defining features of both psychoanalysis and the Jewish tradition. The question invites inquiry, analysis, dis...

This volume, while not the first to explore and critique the concept of Jewish identity, makes two important interventions into contemporary unders...

A distinct Anglo-Jewish identity developed in Britain between 1840 and 1880. Over the course of these forty years, a mature, increasingly comfortab...

Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had be...

After the khurbn (destruction) perpetrated by Nazi Germany, its allies, and collaborators, the Yiddish communities in Eastern Europe were shattered...

This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, ...

Though ancient rabbinic texts are fundamental to analyzing the history of Judaism, they are also daunting for the novice to read. Rabbinic literatu...

Rabbi Shimon ben Zemach Duran (1361-1444) was a colourful rabbinic authority in Algiers. In his book, Zohar Harakia, on methods of enumerating the ...