Judaism

The 1007 Anonymous, an imaginative, brief text composed in the third or early fourth decade of the thirteenth century, illustrates the proper relat...

Kosher USA follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. It recounts how iconic products such as Coca-C...

The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches...

Can contemporary religion, and particularly Judaism, exist without being informed by history? This question was debated in 1940s New York by two Ge...

A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contin...

This volume examines transmission processes of Alevi religious knowledge and ritual practice in the last decades. It assembles contributions by res...

From Orthodox Jewish child in postwar America to mild-mannered mathematician in academia to legendary atheist activist in the heart of todays Repub...

Crossing the goal line, with the football tucked safely in his arms, the NFL star falls on one knee, bows his head, crosses himself and utters a pr...

New in the acclaimed Jewish Lives series: A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and...

Usher Celinski died in 1984. Sometime later, his family donated his hand-written, Yiddish manuscript to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. When th...

'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian...