Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Judaism - History

Or maybe you aren't Jewish, but you simply want to know what it's like to be a Jew?

Maybe you just want to know the truth behind the stereotypes, especially regarding Orthodox Judaism and Hasidic Jews.

Have you ever wondered what exactly the Talmud is and why it's so important to Judaism?

And, Jewish or not, do you want to know whether the Jewish tidbit you read in a novel or saw in a movie is true?

Are you writing a screenplay or novel that includes a...

Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, it is said, Judaism endorses a tradition of protest as first expressed in the biblical stories of Abraham, Job, and Jeremiah. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age.

Weiss argues that this particular Jewish relationship to the divine is rooted in the most canonical of rabbinic texts even as he...

The understanding of...

Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change--from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life.

"Jewish Megatrends offers a vision for a community that can simultaneously strengthen the institutions that serve those who seek greater Jewish identification and attract younger Jews, many of whom are currently outside the orbit of Jewish communal life. Schwarz and his collaborators provide an exciting path, building on proven examples, that we ignore at our peril."
--from the Foreword

The American Jewish community is riddled...

Who were the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire? What lasting lessons does their spiritual life provide for future generations?

"How did the Judeo-Spanish-speaking Jews of the Ottoman Empire manage to achieve spiritual triumph? To answer this question, we need to have a firm understanding of their historical experience.... We need to be aware of the dark, unpleasant elements in their environments; but we also need to see the spiritual, cultural light in their dwellings that imbued their lives with meaning and honor."
--from Chapter 1, "The Inner Life of the...

The series Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion aims to present a wide spectrum of studies and texts related to Jewish thought, philosophy, and religion - from antiquity to the present. It seeks to highlight the multiplicity of approaches within Judaism and to shed light on the interaction between Jewish and non-Jewish thought. The series includes monographs, collected essays, and editions of sources submitted to or produced by staff and visiting fellows of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, as well as by scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at...

A window into the Jewish People's connection to Israel--written especially for Christians.

"Israel has taken Jewish sacred history, peoplehood and ethics out of the realm of speculation and put them into the crucible of real life experience. In returning the Jewish People to its homeland, Israel has returned Jews to material reality--with all its challenges. The Jewish People's return to the Land returns Judaism to its original vision and the Jewish People to the responsibilities of the biblical covenant."
--from Chapter 9

Along with illuminating the importance of...

A window into the Jewish understanding of God throughout history and today--written especially for Christians.

In Jewish Scripture--Christianity's foundation--God's presence is everywhere: in nature, in history and in the range of human experience. Yet the Torah, Maimonides and 4,000 years of Jewish tradition all agree on one thing: that God is beyond any form of human comprehension. How, then can Judaism be so crowded with descriptions and images of God? And what can they mean to the ways Christians understand their own faith?

In this special book, Rabbi Neil Gillman...