A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three...
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Hasidism: A New History
Authors: David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, Marcin Wodziński Afterword: Arthur Green This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism....
Origins of the Kabbalah by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah is a rich tradition...
The Talmud: A Biography by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of...
Through a Speculum That Shines by Elliot R. Wolfson
A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle...
The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today by Jack Wertheimer
American Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years,...
Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law by Chaim N. Saiman
How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question―and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everything Though typically translated as “Jewish law,” the term halakhah is not...
The Story of Hebrew by Lewis Glinert
The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved...
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This...
