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  • A Life of Courage

    Sherwin Wine and Humanistic Judaism

    by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Harry Cook, Marilyn Rowens ...
    Compiled by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Harry Cook & Marilyn Rowens, A Life of Courage is both a biography of and a tribute to the remarkable life of Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine. founder of Humanistic Judaism. Wine began the movement of Humanistic Judaism in the early 1960s at The Birmingham Temple in suburban Detroit, Michigan, with the belief that secular Jewish culture and Jewish history shape people's ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • This Is My God

    by Herman Wouk ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author shares a "valuable, wise, and quietly moving" meditation on orthodox Judaism ( Chicago Tribune ).Renowned for his sweeping historical novels such as The Cain Mutiny and The Winds of War, Herman Wouk now presents a brilliantly distilled examination of his own religious faith. A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing. ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone

    The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry

    by Gal Beckerman ...
    The "remarkable" story of the grass-roots movement that freed millions of Jews from the Soviet Union ( The Plain Dealer).At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the USSR. They lived a paradox—unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue.Journalist Gal ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Munich 1972

    Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games

    by David Clay Large ...
    Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages’ tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by the German police. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources from the time, eminent ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Jews and Power

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesTaking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Jewish Enlightenment

    by Shmuel Feiner ...
    Translated by Chaya Naor ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their beards and abandoned Yiddish in favor of the languages of the countries in which they lived. They ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Five

    A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa

    by Vladimir Jabotinsky ...
    Translated by Michael R. Katz ...
    "The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years also coincided with our own personal springtime, in the sense that we were all in our youthful twenties. And both of these springtimes, as well ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Story of Hebrew

    by Lewis Glinert ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    A unique history of the Hebrew language from biblical times to the modern Jewish stateThis book 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 by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • Jewish History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David N. Myers ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, David N. Myers charts the long journey of the Jews through history. At the same time, it points to two unlikely-and decidedly ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations

    Edited by Josef Meri ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Religion
    The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations invites readers to deepen their understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political themes that impact modern-day perceptions of interfaith dialogue. The volume is designed to illuminate positive encounters between Muslims and Jews, as well as points of conflict, within a historical framework. Among other goals, the volume seeks to ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Judaism in America

    by Marc Lee Raphael ...
    Series series Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series
    Jews have been a religious and cultural presence in America since the colonial era, and the community of Jews in the United States today—some six million people—continues to make a significant contribution to the American religious landscape. Emphasizing developments in American Judaism in the last quarter century among active participants in Jewish worship, this book provides both a look back ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Exodus Revealed

    Israel's Journey from Slavery to the Promised Land

    by Nicholas Perrin ...
    What really happened during Israel's journey from slavery to the promised land? Bible scholar Nicholas Perrin explains the true story of the Exodus while adding helpful background information from biblical history, archaeology, and more. You will . . .Explore the unvarnished Bible story of the ExodusLearn about ancient Egypt and PharaohCome to know the man and the mission of MosesFind out why the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook