Judaism: Life & Practice

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

This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the tw...

This handy primer on all things Jewish is filled with funny, surprising and informative facts about Jewish life, culture, and religious practice-al...

There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that ordinary Jews do not know about Ukrainians. As a result, those Jews and Ukra...

One of the most basic questions for any legal system is that of methodology: how one interprets, analyzes, weighs, and applies a mass of often comp...

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...

In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkab...

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

When Gilya Gerda Schmidt met him in 1986, Cantor Heiser had spent forty-six of his eighty-one years as a US citizen and was well-acquainted with mo...

This book is a scholarly examination of the political thought of Rabbi Meir (Maharam) of Rothenburg, the most important thirteenth century German R...

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

The Empowering Seder Conversations Passover Haggadah presents clear and inspiring insights to foster broad inclusion and engagement at the Seder. ...

Kosher haggis, tartan kippot, and Jewish Burns' Suppers: Jews acculturated to Scotland within one generation and quickly inflected Jewish culture i...

Changes in childhood and childrens roles in society, and in how children participate in determining their own lives, have long been of interest to ...

Changes in childhood and childrens roles in society, and in how children participate in determining their own lives, have long been of interest to ...

Finalist for Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Philosophy and Jewish Thought 2023. This book untangles a web of ideas about politics, religion, exile...

Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship 2022. Karaite Judaism emerged in the ninth century in the Islamic Middle East as an alterna...

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox reli...

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox reli...

Erstmals wird hier der protestantische Pastor und Widerstandskämpfer Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) mit dem jüdischen Religionsphilosophen und Akt...

For anyone with an interest in Judaica and sacred objects, this book presents some of the most outstanding examples of contemporary Judaica that ha...

Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit Konzeptionen des rituellen Schreibens der STaM (Sifrei Torah, Tefillin, Mezuzot) im pluralistischen Kontext der eur...

This volume features powerful essays by Edward Alexander on the phenomenon of anti-Zionism on the part of the Jewish intelligentsia. It also analys...

Despite the UK's long history of racial injustice, people from minoritised groups have fought back, engaging in advocacy, activism, and every-day a...

Brisk yet meditative . . .Rabbis and others active in Jewish worship communities will be inspired. --Publishers WeeklyFew people have had a greater...

Like the Hebrew prophets before him, the great American rabbi and civil rights leader reveals Gods concern for this world and each of us. Abraham ...

'A deeply humane, learned and personal reflection on Jewish identity' - Rowan Williams 'This inspiring book has made me a better Jew, one who unde...

The Hebrew edition of The Jews of Provence and Languedoc, published in 2017, was awarded the Ben Zvi Institute Prize (2018) and the Am Olam Prize o...

100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World features stories of Jewish brides from six continents, highlighting diverse customs and rituals re...