Judaism

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebacha man considered the most influential composer of Jewish religious music of the 20th century and a progenitor of the modern n...

Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer, reveals the impact of personal trauma on th...

Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. His writings, e...

The term Judeo-Christian is remarkably easy to pass over without consideration. It seems obvious that Judaism and Christianity share texts, tenets,...

You can bet your blintzes that when it comes to the Jewish holidays, cats have just a few things in mind: treats, toys, and mischief. In 20 feline-...

Actually funny! Eater (named one of the Best New Cookbooks Spring 2020) Wonderful... personal and funnySan Francisco Chronicle Something specia...

Chaim Waxman, a prominent sociologist of contemporary Orthodoxy, is one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. In illustration of how...

Following current developments in contemporary art history, historians of Jewish art increasingly redefine themselves as studying Jewish visual cul...

A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western trad...

This brief introduction to Judaism is designed to help readers understand this important religious tradition. With both nuance and balance, this te...

An essential biography of one of the Bible's most influential booksDuring its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to importa...

Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stories against the background o...

With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish ...