Judaism: Life & Practice

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...

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...