Judaism

When Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law) reached Lunel, France, a group of scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions. Su...

When Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law) reached Lunel, France, a group of scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions. Su...

Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed addressed Jews of his day who felt challenged by apparent contradictions between Torah and science. We Are Not Al...

This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture, and the first thinker...

This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture, and the first thinker...

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of th...

As a scientist, philosopher and scholar in Jewish thought, Yeshayahu Leibowitz was one of the most noteworthy thinkers in the twentieth century. He...

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of th...

The connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one express...

Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (10001250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voi...

This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of li...

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied impo...

Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity and the Theopolitical Problem is a book about the encounter between Jewish and Christian thought and the fac...

Isaacs Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, ...

Israel is a Jewish state. What is the meaning of this and how does it align with the democratic nature of the country? These are the questions at t...

Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Emmanuel Levinas were amongst the two leading Jewish thinkers to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. ...

The ayei Adam, an abridged code of Jewish law, was written by Rabbi Avraham Danzig (1748-1820) and was first published in 1810. This code spread qu...

A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews peoplehood   A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyo...