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Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah
Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah
by Roger Bennett
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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)

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Countrymen
Countrymen
by Bo Lidegaard
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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)

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Sons of Abraham: A Candid Conversation about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims
Sons of Abraham: A Candid Conversation about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims
by Marc Schneier
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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)

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Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret
Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret
by Paul Glaser
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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)

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The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ
The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ
by Daniel Boyarin
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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)

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With a Mighty Hand: The Story in the Torah
With a Mighty Hand: The Story in the Torah
by Amy Ehrlich
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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)

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May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism (Prayers of Awe)
May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism (Prayers of Awe)
by Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.d. (edt)
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"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)

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Fraud: The World of Ona'ah (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Fraud: The World of Ona'ah (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Henri Atlan
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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)

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How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought
How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought
by Leora Batnitzky
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"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)

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I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
by Marianne Szegedy-maszak
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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)

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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
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
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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)

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Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East (Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies)
Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East (Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies)
by Tsevi Zohar
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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)

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Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East (Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies)
Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East (Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies)
by Tsevi Zohar
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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)

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Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought
Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought
by Neil Gillman
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"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)

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Jews and the Military: A History
Jews and the Military: A History
by Derek Jonathan Penslar
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"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)

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Faith: Jewish Perspectives (Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah)
Faith: Jewish Perspectives (Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah)
by Dov Schwartz
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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)

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Jewish Mysticism and the Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflections
Jewish Mysticism and the Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflections
by Lawrence Fine
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David Remembered: Kingship and National Identity in Ancient Israel
David Remembered: Kingship and National Identity in Ancient Israel
by Joseph Blenkinsopp
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The Basic Beliefs of Judaism: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition
The Basic Beliefs of Judaism: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition
by Lawrence J. Epstein
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The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism
The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism
by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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