Judaica
Floating Takes Faith: Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
We are taught to study, to learn, and to let ourselves grow Jewishly. But where does being the “people of the book” get us in the real world? }}David Wolpe’s collection of essays responds to this question by exploring how Jewish values, such as scholarship and compassion, together with Jewish practice, enhance an individual’s private and public life. How does ...
Read MoreFlares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust
Anita BrostoffPublisher: Oxford University PressRanging from snapshots of pre-Holocaust life to survival in disguise and portraits of “the virtuous and the vicious,” 92 vignettes by Holocaust survivors who participated in writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh are gathered in Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust, edited by Anita Brostoff, a retired Carnegie-Mellon University professor, with ...
Read MoreFixer, The by Bernard Malamud
Bernard MalamudYakov Bok, the “fixer” in Bernard Malamud’s 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is an impoverished Jewish handyman in pre-Revolutionary Russia who finds himself the victim of a blood libel charge. He is accused of killing a Christian child before Passover to obtain the blood his accusers believed Jews needed to make matzah. During his three anguishing years in prison awaiting ...
Read MoreFive Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (The Schocken
Everett Fox, Schwebel (illustrator)Widely acclaimed by Bible scholars and theologians of every denomination, Everett Fox’s masterful translation re-creates the echoes, allusions, alliterations, and wordplays of the Hebrew original. Together with its extensive commentary and illuminating notes, this unique translation draws the reader closer to the authentic living voice of the Bible.SoftcoverISBN:0805211195Based on the Buber-Rosenzweig translation of the Hebrew Bible, completed ...
Read MoreFirst Steps in Hebrew Prayer
Publisher: Hebrew WorldLearn Jewish prayer for beginners with the friendliest prayer tutorial. In addition to the book, hear every prayer and blessing on the enclosed CD. See text in English, Hebrew and transliteration.This best-seller beautiful book provides an easy and pleasant start with the first steps of Jewish prayer, bringing to you the most important prayers and blessings. It features ...
Read MoreFireflies in the Dark
The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezinby Susan Goldman RubinAges 8-11 A nonfiction account of Terezin were a little known heroine, who tried valiantly to protect children from the horrors of the concentration camp. More than a biography of Dicker-Brandeis’ life, it offers the facts about Adolf Hitler and his attempt to exterminate the Jews in all of ...
Read MoreFinding Each Other in Judaism
Meditations on the Rites of Passage from Birth to Immortalityby Harold M. SchulweisThis book opens each section of the rites of passage with rabbinic and philosophic interpretation, folkloristic parables and insights. These point out the theological rationale and the ethical implications of the rites of passage. The task is to repair the rupture between act and purpose, between the private ...
Read MoreFinding Each Other in Judaism
Rabbi Harold SchulweisPublisher: UAHC PressDrawing from both traditional and contemporary Jewish sources, this book explores Jewish life-cycle passages such as birth, bar/bat mitzvah, conversion, marriage, illness, and the end of life.Using profound insights, meditations and poetry on the events and rites that frame Jewish life, Rabbi Schulweis provides insight and a greater sense of the meaning behind these rites of ...
Read MoreFilling Words with Light: Hasidic and Mystical Reflections on Jewish Prayer
Lawrence Kushner, Nehemia PolenPublisher: Jewish LightsBreathe New Life into Your Prayer with the Wisdom of Kabbalah and the Hasidic MastersJewish mystics teach that every word a person utters in prayer should radiate light. Even the letters of the words of prayer carry sparks of the Divine that yearn to join together in holiness.In this inspiring spiritual companion, Reform rabbi Lawrence ...
Read MoreFeathers (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry)
A classic of modern Israeli literature in English for the first time.}}When first published in 1979, Haim Beﾒerﾒs Feathers was a critical and commercial success, ushering in a period of great productivity and expansiveness in modern Hebrew literature. Now considered a classic in Israeli fiction the book is finally available to English readers worldwide. In this, his first novel, Beﾒer ...
Read MoreFarewell, Shanghai
Angel Wagenstein, Deliana Simeonova (translator), Elizabeth Frank (translator)Publisher: Handsel BooksElisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human ambition and vice, Shanghai is a city of extremes—of dazzling ...
Read MoreEyewitness to Jewish History
Rabbi Benjamin BlechPublisher: John Wiley & SonsThroughout history, Judaism and Jewish culture have enriched the entire world with revolutionary conceptions of God, justice, freedom, learning, and, indeed, the very meaning of history. Eyewitness to Jewish History brings you face-to-face with the people, places, and events that have shaped and been shaped by the Jewish experience, from ancient times to the ...
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