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Shtetl by Eva Hoffman Publisher Comments Looks at eastern Poland's formerly multicultural town of Bransk, exploring its culture, institutions, and the forms of Polish-Jewish coexistence that effected relations between Poles and Jews prior to World War II.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.75 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Window of the Soul: Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-1572) by Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital Publisher Comments Some 400 years before Albert Einstein proposed his Theory of Relativity of the outer universe to the scientific community, a Rabbi named Isaac Luria disclosed his theory of the inner universe and its evolution within the mind of the Ineffable. In 1492... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $20.37 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Meditation and Kabbalah by Aryeh Kaplan Publisher Comments A lucid presentation of the meditative methods, mantras, mandalas and other devices used, as well as a penetrating interpretation of their significance in the light of contemporary meditative research. Meditative methods ofthe East might have been... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ancient Judaism by Max Weber Publisher Comments Weber's classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Consciousness & Choice: Finding Your Soul Mate by Yitzchak Ginsburgh Publisher Comments Teaches how the mystical tradition in Judaism can help in making a decision on whom to marry.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Art of Education: Internalizing Ever-new Horizons by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh Publisher Comments With so much information readily available today, the educators role must go beyond simply transferring knowledge to students. Drawing from the deep wisdom found in the classic teachings and stories of Kabbalah and Chassidut, The Art of Education focuses... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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And Turn It Again: Theme and Sacred Variations by Simeon J. Maslin Publisher Comments In his new book, " ...and turn it again," author Simeon Maslin introduces his readers to a first-century sage who taught: "Turn it and turn it again, for everything is in it." That ancient sage was referring to Hebrew Scripture, and Maslin continues the... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Many Faces of God: A Reader of Modern Jewish Theologies by Rifat Sonsino Publisher Comments In his follow-up to Finding God, Rabbi Sonsino examines contemporary Jewish images of God, as seen in the writings of the most original and creative Jewish thinkers to emerge out of the events and experiences of the twentieth century. This anthology... (read more) List Price $12.76 Your price: $11.32 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Yosl Rakover Talks to God by Zvi Kolitz Publisher Comments A dying Jew's last words to God -- a text that is regarded as the greatest piece of writing to have emerged from the Holocaust -- the story of how it came to be written, and the afterlife of both the author and his creation. As the German tanks destroy... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Chattel or Person?: The Status of Women in the Mishnah by Judith Romney Wegner Publisher Comments Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules with a spiritual basis compiled by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in the role of women. Both... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $46.25 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women's Wisdom by Tirzah Firestone Publisher Comments Profiles seven women throughout history whose lives are representative of Jewish women's spiritual heritage, inviting readers to reconnect with the Jewish feminine experience. Reprint.... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Interrupting Auschwitz: Art, Religion, Philosophy by Josh Cohen Publisher Comments Hitler, wrote Theodor Adorno, imposed "a new categorical imperative on humankind...to arrange thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself." Interrupting Auschwitz argues that what gives this imperative its philosophical force and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $33.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics by Elliot N. Dorff Publisher Comments A leading ethicist suggests ways to take the moral high road in one's personal life. In this topically relevant book on modern ethical issues, Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism's distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $15.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Contemplative Life ; the Giants ; and, Selections by Philo (of Alexandria.) Publisher Comments This anthology contains the basic vision of Philo (c. 20 B.C.E.-50 C.E.), the greatest Jewish mystic, philosopher and theologian of the Graeco-Roman era.... (read more) List Price $20.97 Your price: $18.61 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Torah's Vision of Worship by Samuel Eugene Balentine Publisher Comments Maps the landscape of ancient Israel's view of worship, liturgy, and ways of reaching out to God.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $25.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period: The Early Hellenistic Period (335-175 BCE) by Lester L. Grabbe Publisher Comments This is the second volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period. It is axiomatic that there are large gaps in the history of the Persian period, but the early Greek period is possibly even less known. This volume brings... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $43.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Philosopher and Prophet: Judah Halevi, the Kuzari, and the Evolution of His Thought by Yochanan Silman Publisher Comments This book is the first to describe the development of Halevi's thought with a view to reaching a better understanding of its inherent systematic difficulties, as well as enabling identification of the various strata of the book belonging to different... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $29.55 Google eBooks - Electronic
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When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered by Ross Shepard Kraemer Publisher Comments This is a study of an anonymous ancient work (surviving in shorter and longer versions... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price: $124.88 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Of Methods, Monarchs, and Meanings: A Sociorhetorical Approach to Exegesis by Gina Hens-Piazza Publisher Comments Can rhetorical criticism and social-science criticism collaborate in the interpretation of Old Testament texts? Part one of this study surveys the two methods, defines the profitable points of contact in biblical exegesis, then proposes an integrated... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $21.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book by Aliza Lavie Publisher Comments This beautiful and moving, one-of-a-kind collection draws from a variety of Jewish traditions to commemorate every occasion and every passage in the cycle of life--from the mundane to the extraordinary.... (read more) Your price: $19.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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