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Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah by Roger Bennett Publisher Comments Announcing a smart, daring, original new take on the Torah. Imagine: 54 leading young Jewish writers, artists, photographers, screenwriters, architects, actors, musicians, and graphic artists grappling with the first five books of the Bible and giving... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Countrymen by Bo Lidegaard Publisher Comments Amid the dark, ghastly history of World War II, the literally extraordinary story, never before fully researched by a historian, of how the Danish people banded together to save their fellow Jews from the Nazis—told through the remarkable... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sons of Abraham: A Candid Conversation about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims by Marc Schneier Publisher Comments A prominent rabbi and imam, each raised in orthodoxy, overcome the temptations of bigotry and work to bridge the chasm between Muslims and Jews Sons of Abraham relates the unlikely friendship between the orthodox Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret by Paul Glaser Publisher Comments The Suitcase In 2002 I attended a conference in Krakow for hospital directors. For once the event was scheduled while my wife Ria’s students were on holiday, and she had been able to join me for the trip. We had never been to Krakow before, so we... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ by Daniel Boyarin Synopsis In July 2008 a front-page story in the New York Times reported on the discovery of an ancient Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Commenting on this startling... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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With a Mighty Hand: The Story in the Torah by Amy Ehrlich Publisher Comments Amy Ehrlich retains the beauty, drama, and mystery of the Torah in this unique adaptation, gorgeously illustrated with paintings by Daniel Nevins. The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament. It tells... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism (Prayers of Awe) by Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.d. (edt) PW Review "On four holidays Yom Kippur, Passover, Succoth, and Shavuoth Ashkenazi Jews participate in a memorial service known as Yizkor (May God Remember). Prayers are recited in remembrance of parents and other deceased relatives. Often, Holocaust... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Fraud: The World of Ona'ah (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Henri Atlan Publisher Comments We can calculate financial fraud, but how do we measure bad faith? How can we evaluate the words of the pharmaceutical industry or of eco-scientific ideologies, or the subtle deception found in political scheming? Henri Atlan sheds light on these... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought by Leora Batnitzky Publisher Comments "Modernity and emancipation challenged the religious, political, legal, and cultural wholeness of diasporic Jewry--and seemed to require Jews to choose whether they were members of a religion, or a nation, or a culture, or a civilization. Leora Batnitzky... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary by Marianne Szegedy-maszak Review A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author’s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Am I a Jew?: My Journey Among the Believers and Pretenders, the Lapsed and the Lost, in Search of Faith (Not Necessarily My Own), M by Theodore Ross Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book, and a chaotic, laugh riot” (San Francisco Chronicle) of a memoir. Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East (Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies) by Tsevi Zohar Publisher Comments Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic... (read more) Your price: $159.25 New - Hardcover
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Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East (Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies) by Tsevi Zohar Publisher Comments Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic... (read more) Your price: $51.25 New - Trade Paper
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Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought by Neil Gillman PW Review "After a half-century at the Jewish Theological Seminary as student, teacher, and administrator, Gillman offers a masterful summary of challenges facing religious believers. He focuses on God, revelation, suffering, and death. His thinking has moved from... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Hardcover
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Jews and the Military: A History by Derek Jonathan Penslar Publisher Comments "This book shatters the conventional image of diaspora Jews as a people who shun warfare. With exemplary scholarship and a gimlet eye for telling historical evidence, Derek Penslar analyzes Jewish participation in armies from the seventeenth century to... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Faith: Jewish Perspectives (Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah) by Dov Schwartz Publisher Comments Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can... (read more) Your price: $89.00 New - Hardcover
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Jewish Mysticism and the Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflections by Lawrence Fine Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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David Remembered: Kingship and National Identity in Ancient Israel by Joseph Blenkinsopp Your price: $26.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Basic Beliefs of Judaism: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition by Lawrence J. Epstein Your price: $42.50 New - Hardcover
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The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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