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A resource for answers to questions on Jewish prayer.

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Provides a practical understanding and interpretation of the Zohar, the central kabbalistic text, examines its central teachings on evil, redemption, human relationships, wealth and poverty, death and the afterlife, and other fundamental concerns, and explains how to use the principles of Kabbalah t

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This book traces the history of Galilee from its biblical roots to the eruption of the Arab-Jewish conflict in 1948, illustrating how modernization in the region was intertwined with mystical beliefs and practices and developed among Palestinians, Orthodox Jews, Christians, and Druze without being a byproduct of Western intervention.

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This is the story of the region where monotheism multiplied, where Christianity came into being, where Judaism reinvented itself, and where Islam won some of its greatest triumphs. This book tells the story of the monotheistic faiths in Galilee from Jesus and Josephus to the Crusades.

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Critical presentation of the whole evidence concerning Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 BC to AD 135; with updated bibliographies.

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In this book, scholars with expertise in various national literatures and cultures explore how the Holocaust has been represented in novels, memoirs, film, television, and architecture. This book provides a unique vantage point for the scholar and student to compare how national context impacts representations of the Holocaust.

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The Late Second Temple Period (c. 200 BC to 70 AD) was a period of intense social changes for the Jewish people. During this period, the Jewish people experienced a Syrian king defiling the Jerusalem Temple, the Maccabean Revolt, the celebration of Hanukkah, the establishment ...

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An innovative study of the gendering of ethnic difference in Western society, Sichers multidisciplinary, comparative analysis shows how racialized images have persisted and helped to form prejudiced views of the Other.

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An innovative study of the gendering of ethnic difference in Western society, Sichers multidisciplinary, comparative analysis shows how racialized images have persisted and helped to form prejudiced views of the Other.

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Documents the turbulent history of the Jewish people. This atlas portrays various aspects of Jewish history that lends itself to cartographic interpretation, since biblical times. It presents the coverage of major themes in biblical, mishnaic, talmudic, medieval, and modern Jewish history.

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Begins by asking how a traditional Jew can participate politically and socially and in good faith in a modern democratic society, and ends by proposing a broad, inclusive notion of secularity. It shows how social contracts emerged, rooted in biblical notions of covenant, and how they developed in the rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods.

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A provocative, compelling history and a passionate call to defend Israel's mission as the state of the Jewish people.

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This book explores the relationship between God, the Jewish people, and the Land of Israel, bringing clarity to issues of great moment - both in the past and in our time. The author's analyses are rooted in Biblical and rabbinic texts themselves, in addition to other scholarly disciplines that relate.

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The Life and Teachings of Hillel develops a groundbreaking portrait of one of the greatest figures in Jewish tradition. Weaving together the various stories about Hillel along with his teachings and sayings Yitzak Buxbaum sheds new light on Hillel's illustrious career, fascina...

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Weaves together the various stories about Hillel along with his teachings and sayings.

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The Life and Thought of Zeev Jawitz combines three interesting disciplines and ideologies: Orthodoxy, Nationalism, and Jewish Studies. This biography by Asaf Yedidya reflects the tension between these ideologies as a central arena for Judaism's encounter with modernity.

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Features the life, in stories, of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), the founder of Hasidism. The Baal Shem Tov, or the Besht, as he is commonly called, led a revival in Judaism that put love and joy at the center of religious life and championed the piety of the common folk against the rabbinic establishment.

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Interest in Jewish universalism is on the rise, yet scholars lack a common definition of the concept. This book advocates for a common definition of universalism as it applies to an Early Jewish context and traces the origins of Jewish universalist thought from the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible through the period of the Second Temple.