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Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews
by Chaim Potok  Publisher Comments A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a...
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Human Rights in Judaism
by Michael Broyde Publisher Comments The remarkable contributions that Judaism has made, and can make, to the theory, law, and activism of human rights are discussed in this volume....
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Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber
by Maurice Friedman Publisher Comments "A clear and lucid analysis .... Friedman analyzes Buber's responses to the important events of the 20th century". -- Library Journal<P>"Definitive.... Particularly interesting are the details of Buber's last years...
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Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, #4: An Unacknowledged Harmony: Philo-Semitism and the Survival of European Jewry
by Alan Edelstein Review Based on sound analysis of European, Jewish, and Holocaust literature and historical documents, Edelstein's work seeks to explain the active role of Christians (especially the papacy), and of secular and religious leaders that ensured the survival of...
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Listen to the Trees: Jews and the Earth; Teacher's Guide
by Gabriel Goldman Publisher Comments Using Torah texts and traditional Jewish stories as a basis, this book for intermediate grades presents an exploration of ecology and the interconnectedness of all life on earth. Stories, cartoons, and full-color illustrations....
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Question of Faith
by Morton Shor Publisher Comments Written correspondence between a Conservative rabbi and an educated layperson, who is an atheist, about the existence of God....
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Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Drawing Honey from the Rock
by Alan L. Berger Synopsis Authentic Jewish-Christian dialogue is a new historical phenomenon whose birth is directly related to the horror and shame of the Holocaust. From the ashes of the death camps there emerged an ember of hope....
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The Peppermint Train: Journey to a German-Jewish Childhood
by Edgar E Stern Publisher Comments This sensitive memoir, written by an American psychotherapist, tells the story of a pre-Holocaust refugee's return to Germany, a journey that becomes both a pilgrimage to his childhood and an anguished search to understand it. Stern fled the Nazis with...
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Judaism : History, Belief and Practice (03 Edition)
by Dan Cohn-sherbok Publisher Comments This all-encompassing textbook is an unrivalled guide to the history, belief and practice of Judaism, written by a scholar and rabbi who is also an experienced university teacher. Beginning with the ancient Near Eastern background, it covers early...
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Tales of Elijah the Prophet
by Peninnah Schram Publisher Comments Tales of Elijah the Prophet is a brilliant and multicolored portrait of Elijah and his role in Jewish life and tradition throughout the ages. It unlocks the world of Elijah, inviting readers to delve into the centuries-old treasure chest of Jewish wisdom....
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Events and Movements in Modern Judaism
by Raphael Patai Publisher Comments Seventeen essays discussing the major events and trends in modern Jewish history, as well as religious and secular movements, which have responded to those trends and events....
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To Broaden the Way: A Confucian-Jewish Dialogue (Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion)
by Galia Patt-shamir Publisher Comments To Broaden the Way suggests that the texts of both the Jewish and Confucian tradition talk in riddles of a special kind: riddles which are introduced-and answered-by religious forms of life. Using a dialogue of riddles, Galia Patt-Shamir presents a...
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Exile: Old Testament, Jewish & Christian Conceptions
by J. M. Scott Publisher Comments The exiles of Israel and Judah cast a long shadow over the biblical text and the whole subsequent history of Judaism. Scholars have long recognized the importance of the theme of exile for the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, critical study of the Old Testament has,...
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The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology
by Michael Fishbane Publisher Comments Exegesis--interpretation and explanation of sacred texts--is the quintessence of rabbinic thought. Through such means and methods, the written words of Hebrew Scripture have been extended since antiquity, and given new voices for new times. In this lucid...
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Arguing with God: A Jewish Tradition: A Jewish Tradition
by Anson Laytner Publisher Comments As an old proverb puts it, Two Jews, three opinions. In the long, rich, tumultuous history of the Jewish people, this characteristic contentiousness has often been extended even unto Heaven. Arguing with God is a highly original and utterly absorbing...
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Origins of Zionism (75 Edition)
by David Vital Publisher Comments This first volume of Vital's trilogy traces the roots of the movement from its source in Jewish tradition, concentrating on the crucial formative period from the onset of the great East-West migration of European Jews in 1881 to the first World Congress...
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Between Silence and Speech
by Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo Publisher Comments In this volume, Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo, highly regarded author and lecturer, examines some of the most controversial topics in Jewish thought and law. Join Rabbi Lopes Cardozo on this journey of discovery as he makes a critical assessment of the Jewish...
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Every Persons Guide to Jewish
by Ronald Isaacs Publisher Comments Rabbi Ronald H. Isaacs' highly acclaimed series of Every Person's Guides provides modern readers with the essential information necessary to grasp the topics he explores. A gifted educator, Rabbi Isaacs understands the needs of his readers as he provides...
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Venice and Environs: Places, History and Art
by Francesca Brandes Synopsis Lavishly illustrated and rich with historical information, Jewish Itineraries is an indispensable guide to Jewish monuments and treasures in Venice and its environs. Epic and lyrical fragments of an unspoken narrative resonate in the landscape as well as...
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Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, #22: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity
by Nathaniel Deutsch Publisher Comments This exploration of the phenomenon of angelic vice regency in Late Antiquity compares figures from Judaism, Mandaeism, and Gnosticism. The first part of the book is devoted to the question of mediation in Late Antiquity and to the role of exegesis in the...
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