Used Books
There are 4460 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
|
by Tamar Frankiel Publisher Comments The first comprehensive, down-to-earth introduction to explain the primary message of Kabbalah -- that we are to become like God. Includes hands-on "personal Kabbalah" exercises that help bring the teachings into your life.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments While Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and clarity, less notice has been taken of the remarkable unity that is displayed in his writings from the earlier studies on Shelley, Blake and Romanticism, up to A Map of Misreading. That unity is... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Hanna Krall Publisher Comments "Elegant, multi-layered narratives....Krall's deceptively artless prose speaks of real events with the power of fiction."--"The New York Times Book Review" In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals the surprising ways the lives of World War II... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Isaiah Trunk Publisher Comments During World War II, more than five million Jews lived under Nazi rule in Eastern Europe. In occupied Poland, the Baltic countries, Byelorussia, and Ukraine, they were stripped of property and "resettled" in ghettos. The German authorities established in... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Esther Benbassa Publisher Comments Esther Benbassa and Jean-Christophe Attias pose a number of controversial questions that challenge prevailing myths and attitudes about Judaism, upsetting conformist discourses and received ideas. What if the Jews were not the "descendants" of the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Nancy Fuchs Kreimer Publisher Comments While most books about Judaism strive to strengthen relationships with community, extended family, children, or with one's own spiritual path, Judaism for Two addresses the ways Jewish teachings can enhance and strengthen committed relationships. Couples... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lawrence Hoffman Publisher Comments Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman is widely recognized as a leader in bringing spiritual innovation into modern Jewish life and worship. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study, he explores the Jewish way of being in the world--the Jewish relationship to God and to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Chaim Stern Publisher Comments Rabbi Stern, the master of modern Jewish liturgy, offers the Passover seder that runs itself in this revision of his best-selling classic, Gates of Freedom. The text is clearly marked so that families with young children can shorten the service, while... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David G Roskies Publisher Comments David Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to castastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated in these recurring images of sin, martyrdom, and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Marc Lee Raphael Publisher Comments Raphael's compact overview distinguishes itself as both a history of the Judaic tradition and a witness to the vitality and variety of contemporary American Judaic life.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
|
by Marc Alain Ouaknin Publisher Comments Signifying the end of childhood and the passage into adult life, the Bar Mitzvah is one of the most famous ceremonies in Judaism. Celebrated at the synagogue, it is a big event for family and friends, and also a time of ritual. Clear and educational... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by James C Vanderkam Publisher Comments VanderKam, one of today's most respected scholars of biblical history, offers a superb new introduction to early Judaism. Based on the best, most recent archaeological research, this illustrated volume explores the history of Judaism during the Second... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Diane Armstrong Publisher Comments Starting in Krakow, Poland in 1890, and spanning more than one hundred years, five generations, and four continents, Mosaic is Diane Armstrong's moving account of her remarkable, resilient family. This story begins when Daniel Baldinger divorces the wife... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $8.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Marc A Weiner Publisher Comments This book addresses one of the most hotly contested debates in contemporary cultural life: the question of how anti-Semitism figures in the operas of Richard Wagner. Until now, scholars have generally acknowledged Wagner's anti-Semitism but have argued... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Faith Rogow Publisher Comments The first comprehensive history of the oldest religious Jewish women's organization in the U.S., Gone to Another Meeting charts the development of the National Council of Jewish Women and its impact on both the Jewish community in the United States and... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments As the last generation of survivors is passing and a new generation must be introduced to mankind's darkest hour, Wiesel sums up the most important aspects of Hitler's years in power and provides a fitting memorial to those who suffered and perished.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Arthur Hertzberg Publisher Comments The most groundbreaking, provocative book on Jewish identity to come along in decades. Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, a visionary and influential leader in the Jewish community, and Aron Hirt-Manheimer, editor of Reform Judaism, get to the heart of the matter... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Abraham H Foxman Publisher Comments The representative of the Jewish community and staunch defender of human rights, Foxman delivers a powerful blow to such ideas as "The Israel Lobby." He shows how old stereotypes associated with the most virulent forms of bigotry have been resurfacing... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Brenner Publisher Comments Although Jewish participation in German society increased after World War I, Jews did not completely assimilate into that society. In fact, says Michael Brenner in this intriguing book, the Jewish population of Welmar Germany became more aware of its... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Etty Hillesum Publisher Comments For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
|







