Judaism

Gathered from across the centuries and around the world, this collection of Passover art and objects is at once a breathtaking visual treasury and ...

Judaism and Its Bible explores the profoundly deep and complex relationship between Jews, Judaism, and the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible has been ...

From 1642 to 1654 Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was the hakham (Torah scholar) and spiritual leader of the oldest Jewish community in the New World. As a ...

Christianity is based on the texts that make up the New Testament, but it has its roots in the books of the Jewish Old Testament which are also inc...

Acclaimed as an instant classic on its original publication and eagerly sought by students of magic ever since, Paths of Wisdom is a comp...

The image of Jews in East Asia is a strange mixture of opposites, a paradoxical blend of admiration and mockery, identification and denial. This bo...

From 1642 to 1654 Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was the hakham (Torah scholar) and spiritual leader of the oldest Jewish community in the New World. As a ...

The book of Isaiah is one of the longest and strangest books of the Hebrew Bible, composed over several centuries and traversing the catastrophe th...

In White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 19201960, Margaret M. Grubiak persuasively argues, through a careful...

The sukkah, the symbolic ritual home built during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, commemorates the temporary structures that sheltered the Isr...

The Jewish practice of bar mitzvah dates back to the twelfth century, but this ancient cultural ritual has changed radically since then, evolving w...

73rd National Jewish Book Awards Finalist Charts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale rei...

Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants wh...

This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the tw...

This acclaimed, influential work applies the concepts of systemic family therapy to the emotional life of congregations. Edwin H. Friedman shows ho...

Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish modernity and negati...