Book Sale: The Polyphony of Jewish Culture by Benjamin Harshav
This books is on Sale in March: $10 for the hardcover instead of the usual $62.50 This book is a coat of many colors. It is a collection of essays written in English by...
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Playlist Judaism Making Choices for a Vital Future By Kerry Olitzky
Every Jewish institution,” writes Kerry Olitzky, “is undergoing significant change and is in danger of becoming irrelevant to the majority of North American Jews. All these institutions will have to reimagine themselves if they...
Great Jewish Books Summer Program
A week-long exploration of literature & culture for high school studentsAugust 3-10, 2014Apply by March 15! The Great Jewish Books Summer Program brings together a select group of rising high school juniors and seniors...
The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew
Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us—or should....
Reference Guide to the Talmud
A revision of the excellent Random House Reference Guide. The Reference Guide is divided into three sections: Historical Background, Talmud Study, and Halakha. Although it is the ideal companion volume to the Koren Talmud...
A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found...
God’s Chosen People: Judah Halevi’s ‘Kuzari’ and the Shi’i Imam Doctrine
The first ever monographic study on the theological encounter of Judaism with Shicism through an explorartion of Judah Halevi’s reliance on basic themes of Shicism in the presentation of Judaism in his classical treatise,...
Pragmatic Studies in Judaism
This book is the first attempt to apply formal pragmatics to Judaic studies as a discipline as well as within the broader discipline of cultural studies, reconstructing the pragmatic approach in Judaism and defining...
Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism
The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in...
The Jews of Latin America
When it was first published in 1980, Judith Laikin Elkin’s foundational book on the Jewish communities of Latin America quickly became the standard resource on the topic. This new edition, the first in fifteen...
