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  • Hope, Not Fear

    A Path to Jewish Renaissance

    by Edgar M. Bronfman, Beth Zasloff ...
    A distinguished Jewish leader and philanthropist argues for openness and joy to reinvigorate Judaism in America.After a lifetime of fighting the persecution of Jews, Edgar M. Bronfman has concluded that what North American Jews need now is hope, not fear. Bronfman urges North American Jewry "to build, not fight. We need to celebrate the joy in Judaism, even as we recognize our responsibility to ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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    The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

    by Samuel Heilman, Menachem Friedman ...
    The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern timesFrom the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson—revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe—built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Yiddish Civilisation

    The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

    by Paul Kriwaczek ...
    A portrait of a civilisation which flourished within living memory and left an indelible mark on historyIn the 13th century Yiddish language and culture began to spread from the Rhineland and Bavaria slowly east into Austria, Bohemia and Moravia, then to Poland and Lithuania and finally to western Russia and the Ukraine, becoming steadily less German and more Slav in the process. In its late ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Abraham's Curse

    The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    "When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son..." --The Book of GenesisThe story of Abraham's acceptance of God's command to sacrifice his son Isaac is one of the most disturbing of all biblical ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Jewish Jesus

    How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other

    by Peter Schäfer ...
    How the rise of Christianity profoundly influenced the development of Judaism in late antiquityIn late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape ... Read more

    $72.59 CAD

  • Judaism: The Basics

    by Jacob Neusner ...
    Series series The Basics
    The oldest of the world’s major faiths, Judaism as practiced today represents a tradition that goes back nearly 6,000 years. Accessible and wide-ranging, Judaism: The Basics is a must-have resource covering the stories, beliefs and expressions of that tradition.Key topics covered include:the TorahIsrael – the state and its peoplePassoverReform Judaism, Orthodox Judaism and Zionismthe impact of the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad

    by Seth Schwartz ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient History
    This is an accessible and up-to-date account of the Jews during the millennium following Alexander the Great's conquest of the East. Unusually, it acknowledges the problems involved in constructing a narrative from fragmentary yet complex evidence and is, implicitly, an exploration of how this might be accomplished. Moreover, unlike most other introductions to the subject, it concentrates ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity

    by O. Ashkenazi ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Between Tel Aviv and Moscow

    A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union

    by Leah Trachtman-Palchan ...
    Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. This was a life of migration, dissent, exile and survival. Born in the final years of Tsarist Russia, her family was forced to leave their small town following the repeated pogroms of the Civil War era. A two year voyage followed, bringing them all to British Mandate Palestine in 1921. Here what seems like a typical ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • The Beginning of Politics

    Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel

    by Moshe Halbertal, Stephen Holmes ...
    New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraftThe Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity

    Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster

    by Julia Watts Belser ...
    Rabbinic tales of drought, disaster, and charismatic holy men illuminate critical questions about power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity. Through a sustained reading of the Babylonian Talmud's tractate on fasts in response to drought, this book shows how Bavli Taʿanit challenges Deuteronomy's claim that virtue can assure abundance and that misfortune is an unambiguous sign of divine ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Redemption and Utopia

    Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe

    by Michael Lowy ...
    Translated by Hope Heaney ...
    Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz KafkaTowards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to transform modern culture. Drawing at once on the traditions of German Romanticism and Jewish messianism, their thought was organized around the cabalistic idea of the “tikkoun”: redemption. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD