Judaism

An intimate account of Orthodox family planning amid shifting state policies in Israel In recent years, Israeli state policies have attempted to di...

Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europes Jewish communities after the war ended. ...

Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tra...

Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly infl...

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How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows ...

The emergence of the Jewish Bible commentary in the tenth century marks a turning point in Jewish intellectual history, namely, the transition from...

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...

This indispensable monograph synthesizes current debates and offers a new historical and literary analysis of the book of Deuteronomy  In this exci...

After One-Hundred-and-Twenty provides a richly nuanced and deeply personal look at Jewish attitudes and practices regarding death, mourning, and th...

The Torah Unabridged is a detailed examination of legal reasoning in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the exegetical operations by which biblical laws...

Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that deity of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Isl...

National Jewish Book Award Winner Halakhic Man is the classic work of modern Jewish and religious thought by the twentieth centurys preeminent Orth...

Revealer of Secrets is a portrayalboth realistic and satiricalof Eastern European Jewish life in the tumultuous early years of the nineteenth centu...