Judaism: Worship, Rites & Ceremonies

In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue...

There is a poetic quality to the writing, and the ideas are original, provocative, and enriching.Library JournalCircling the Jewish calendar from R...

National Jewish Book Awards 2019 Finalist for Visual Arts. Richly illustrated and meticulously documented, this is the first comprehensive survey...

The classic and beloved guide to the cultural and spiritual treasures of Judaism; Living a Jewish Life is a primer on Jewish vocabulary, holidays, ...

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...

This book challenges scholars' assumption, without any explicit evidence, of institutionalized public prayer with fixed contents and times in the Q...

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Visual Arts Award, 2017. The carved wooden Torah arks found in eastern Europe from the seventeenth to...

This book follows the origins of the Kedushta, a sequence of poems that leads up to the epitome of Jewish prayer, the Kedusha or Sanctus. It tracks...