The text of this work is well known to Jewish scholars but has never before been translated from the original Hebrew, except in brief excerpts.
Such Jews will find this book a flexible guide that provides a knowledge of the requirements of traditional Judaism without advocating immediate and complete compliance.
An architect who made drawings of conditions at Therezienstadt reveals his experiences Norbert Troller, a Polish architect, recounts his time in Theresienstadt from early 1942 until September 1944, when he was deported to Auschwitz after ...
This book, the only one in English that can serve as a textbook for beginners and more advanced students of the Babylonian Talmud, examines in detail a number of typical lengthy passages with a view to showing how Talmudic reasoning ...
In a society with so many distractions, how can American Jewish parents teach their children to know and appreciate what it means to be a Jew?
Describes and gives the background of traditional Jewish holidays, customs, and symbols.
A brilliant, challenging revisionist history of the Jewish experience in America by Arthur Hertzberg, political leader, rabbi, social historian, and one of America'a most eminent Jewish thinkers.
What is Judaism? What is the Jewish creed? This book offers a short, lucid introduction to Judaism that both non-Jews and Jews will find fascinating.