36 Candles: Chassidic Tales for Chanukah
ISBN: 9781492112433 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,58 zł |
The Outsider's Guide To Orthodox Judaism
ISBN: 9780615211367 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Outsider's Guide to Orthodox Judaism is a handbook that explains the basic beliefs and practices of Orthodox Judaism in a clear and concise way. It is geared to anyone who is not Orthodox (or non Jewish) interested in learning more about their Orthodox coworkers, friends, and neighbors. Easy to read, and right to the point. Read the Jewish Press review at http: //www.jewishpress.com/content.cfm?contentid=3398
The Outsider's Guide to Orthodox Judaism is a handbook that explains the basic beliefs and practices of Orthodox Judaism in a clear and concise way. I...
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40,54 zł |
Between Heschel and Buber: A Comparative Study
ISBN: 9781936235728 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber were giant thinkers of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to the understanding of religious consciousness and of Judaism. Though they had much in common, writing on various subjects, such as the Bible, the commandments, Hasidism, Zionism and Christianity, they also diferred on substantial points. In this unprecedented volume, Meir and Even-Chen have taken upon themselves the challenge of monitoring their agreements and disputes.
Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber were giant thinkers of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to the understanding of religi...
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492,61 zł |
Readings on Maramarosh
ISBN: 9781618112422 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since World War II, the sub-Carpathian Mountain region once known as Maramarosh has remained "Judenrein" (free of Jews). Jewish Maramarosh lives on, however, through the contributions to scholarship and humanity of Maramarosh Holocaust survivors and their progeny, including Nobel laureate Elie Weisel and the Talmud scholar Professor David Halivni-Weiss. Maramarosh Shoah survivor and Talmud scholar Professor Elieser Slomovic here provides access to a collection of responsa literature, most of it out of print and previously available only or primarily in Yiddish. Through personal queries about...
Since World War II, the sub-Carpathian Mountain region once known as Maramarosh has remained "Judenrein" (free of Jews). Jewish Maramarosh lives on, h...
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455,12 zł |
All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781555977054 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world--only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression--turning on the radio--is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs,... A moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questi... |
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68,71 zł |
Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women: Kallah's Choice
ISBN: 9780739183656 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women comments on hair covering based on an ethnographic study of the lives of Orthodox Jewish women in a small non-metropolitan synagogue. It brings the often overlooked stories of these women to the forefront and probes questions as to how their location in a small community affects their behavioral choices, particularly regarding the folk practice of hair covering. A kallah, or bride, makes the decision as to whether or not she will cover her hair after marriage. In doing so, she externally announces her religious affiliation, in particular her...
Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women comments on hair covering based on an ethnographic study of the lives of Orthodox Jewish women in a small no...
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471,24 zł |
Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
ISBN: 9780143127413 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An electrifying memoir about a young woman s self-destructive spiral after being cast out by her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family
In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, this brutally honest memoir tells the story of one woman s struggle to define herself as an individual. Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that shuns the modern world. When, at sixteen, Leah was caught exchanging letters with a boy breaking a religious ban on contact between the sexes her family cut all ties. Sent to live on her own in New York... An electrifying memoir about a young woman s self-destructive spiral after being cast out by her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family
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Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism
ISBN: 9780814339534 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1965 social scientist Charles S. Liebman published a study that boldly declared the vitality of American Jewish Orthodoxy and went on to guide scholarly investigations of the group for the next four decades. As American Orthodoxy continues to grow in geographical, institutional, and political strength, author Adam S. Ferziger argues in "Beyond Sectarianism"" The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism" that one of Liebman's principal definitions needs to be updated. While Liebman proposed that the "committed Orthodox" -observant rather than nominally affiliated-could be divided into... In 1965 social scientist Charles S. Liebman published a study that boldly declared the vitality of American Jewish Orthodoxy and went on to guide s... |
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Choose Light!: Chassidic Tales for Chanukah, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkos, Passover & Shavuos
ISBN: 9781503136519 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For anyone who has ever been touched and inspired by a Chassidic tale, this box set needs no introduction. For anyone who has not yet experienced the warmth and wisdom of Chassidic masters such as the Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Zusha of Hanipoli-welcome In these volumes you'll find stories that will give you a new appreciation for the Jewish holidays, as well as the Jewish people's ability to remain joyous and optimistic even during the darkest times. By journey's end, hopefully you too will have discovered the secret for how to Choose Light Included is the full text of the following ebooks:...
For anyone who has ever been touched and inspired by a Chassidic tale, this box set needs no introduction. For anyone who has not yet experienced the ...
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76,61 zł |
With an Outstretched Arm: A memoir of love and loss, family and faith
ISBN: 9781934730416 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do you do when it's late on a Friday afternoon, you're a practicing Orthodox Jew, and your father lies dying in a hospital?
This is the dilemma that opens "With An Outstretched Arm." The directive to "honor your parents" and the injunction to "guard the Sabbath" become metaphors for the conflict between the author's lifelong desire to please her father and her more recent commitment to ancient traditions that he disdains. With "An Outstretched Arm" recounts the author's journey from the liberal, southern Reform Judaism of the 1940s and '50s to the warm embrace of a more... What do you do when it's late on a Friday afternoon, you're a practicing Orthodox Jew, and your father lies dying in a hospital?
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Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse
ISBN: 9781618114525 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, including in cyberspace, and considers such issues as homosexuality, lesbianism, masturbation, and the relationships between the sexes. It also analyzes the shift to a pastoral discourse and alternative religious perspectives dealing with this discourse together with its far wider social and cultural...
Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily re...
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Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality
ISBN: 9781107088108 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality, Motti Inbari undertakes a study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary, Jerusalem and New York. He reviews the history, ideology and gender relations of prominent ultra-Orthodox leaders Amram Blau (1894 1974), founder of the anti-Zionist Jerusalemite Neturei Karta, and Yoel Teitelbaum (1887 1979), head of the Satmar Hasidic movement in New York. Focussing on the rabbis' biographies, the author analyzes their enclave building methods, their attitude to women and modesty, and...
In Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality, Motti Inbari undertakes a study of the culture and leadership of ...
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300,29 zł |
Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood
ISBN: 9780226321868 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work "Jewish jobs"--teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis--will stay enmeshed in the Orthodox world throughout the workday. But even for the majority of men who spend their days in the world of gentiles, religious life constantly reasserts itself. Neighborhood fixtures like Jewish schools and synagogues are always after more involvement; evening classes and prayers pull them in; the streets themselves...
On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, befor...
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428,40 zł |
Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood
ISBN: 9780226322056 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work "Jewish jobs"--teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis--will stay enmeshed in the Orthodox world throughout the workday. But even for the majority of men who spend their days in the world of gentiles, religious life constantly reasserts itself. Neighborhood fixtures like Jewish schools and synagogues are always after more involvement; evening classes and prayers pull them in; the streets themselves...
On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, befor...
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128,52 zł |
The House at the Center of the World: Poetic Midrash on Sacred Space
ISBN: 9781934730522 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""According to the mystics, the Torah was engraved with black fire on white fire. These poetic midrash too." - Jay Michaelson, author of The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path"
In his piercing debut collection, "The House at the Center of the World," poet and scholar Abe Mezrich offers a series of beautifully composed short insights on some of the most elusive passages of the Torah: the second half of Exodus, the entirety of Leviticus, and the beginning of Numbers. At once powerful close readings of the text and deeply spiritual literature, these roughly seventy short pieces... ""According to the mystics, the Torah was engraved with black fire on white fire. These poetic midrash too." - Jay Michaelson, author of The Gate of T...
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85,39 zł |
Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women: Kallah's Choice
ISBN: 9781498505543 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women comments on hair covering based on an ethnographic study of the lives of Orthodox Jewish women in a small non-metropolitan synagogue. It brings the often overlooked stories of these women to the forefront and probes questions as to how their location in a small community affects their behavioral choices, particularly regarding the folk practice of hair covering. A kallah, or bride, makes the decision as to whether or not she will cover her hair after marriage. In doing so, she externally announces her religious affiliation, in particular her...
Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women comments on hair covering based on an ethnographic study of the lives of Orthodox Jewish women in a small no...
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214,20 zł |
Love and Terror in the God Encounter: The Theological Legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
ISBN: 9781683361800 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's greatest religious thinkers--explained by a leading theologian of our day. "It is only through experiencing the contradictions in human existence, through being overwhelmed by the divine presence, through the finite human being feeling terror-stricken by the infinite majesty of God that one can develop an authentic religious personality." Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903-1993) profoundly influenced modern Orthodox Judaism in the United... The intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's greatest religious thinkers--explained by a leading theologian of our day. |
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128,79 zł |
Letters of Light
ISBN: 9781498226790 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Letters of Light is a translation of over ninety passages from a well-known Hasidic text, Maor va-shemesh, consisting of homilies of Kalonymus Kalman Epstein of Krakow, together with a running commentary and analysis by Aryeh Wineman. With remarkable creativity, the Krakow preacher recast biblical episodes and texts through the prism both of the pietistic values of Hasidism, with its accent on the inner life and the Divine innerness of all existence, and of his ongoing wrestling with questions of the primacy of the individual vis-a-vis that of the community. The commentary traces the route...
Letters of Light is a translation of over ninety passages from a well-known Hasidic text, Maor va-shemesh, consisting of homilies of Kalonymus Kalman ...
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240,49 zł |
One Step Toward Jerusalem: Oral Histories of Orthodox Jews in Stalinist Hungary
ISBN: 9780815635437 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1997, Bacskai's powerful ethnography portrays the political, religious, and individual forces that came to bear on the Orthodox Jewish tradition as it struggled for survival in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Hungary.
Originally published in 1997, Bacskai's powerful ethnography portrays the political, religious, and individual forces that came to bear on the Orthodo...
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367,04 zł |
One Step Toward Jerusalem: Oral Histories of Orthodox Jews in Stalinist Hungary
ISBN: 9780815635314 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,97 zł |