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  • The Chosen People in America

    A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology

    by Arnold M. Eisen ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    An exploration of how American Jewish thinkers grapple with the notion of being the isolated "Chosen People" in a nation that is a melting pot.What does it mean to be a Jew in America? What opportunities and what threats does the great melting pot represent for a group that has traditionally defined itself as "a people that must dwell alone?" Although for centuries the notion of "The Chosen People ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Synagogues in a Time of Change

    Fragmentation and Diversity in Jewish Religious Movements

    by Zachary I. Heller, Lawrence Grossman, Rodney L. Petersen, Jonathan Woocher, Arthur Green, Gordon Tucker, David B. Starr, Sanford Seltzer, Rela Mintz Geffen, Carl A. Sheingold0, Sanford Cardin1, Judy Beck2, Clifford Kulwin3, Cheri Scheff Levitan4, Moshe Waldoks5, Jeremy S. Morrison6, Rabbi David Ellenson7, Arnold M. Eisen8, Dr. David M. Gordis9, Hayim Herring0 ...
    The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious communities today share a number of challenges, from the increase in secular or unaffiliated Jews to ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Thinking Jewish Culture in America

    by Noam Pianko, Akiba Lerner, Gregory Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Claire E. Sufrin, Jessica Rosenberg, Einat Ramon, Leonard Kaplan, Ari Y. Kelman, Mara H. Benjamin0, Arnold M. Eisen1 ...
    Series series Graven Images
    Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies. The eleven contributors to Thinking Jewish Cultures, together with ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State

    by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Regina M. Schwartz, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Nicholas Wolterstorff ...
    Series series Graven Images
    Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily unfriendly to the liberal state, but neither philosophical analysis nor empirical argument ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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  • A Letter in the Scroll

    Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion

    by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks ...
    For too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them. And it is true that, many times in the course of history, they have been nearly decimated: when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, when Hitler proposed his Final Solution. Astoundingly, the Jewish people have survived catastrophe after catastrophe and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Future Tense

    Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century

    by Jonathan Sacks ...
    One of the most admired religious thinkers of our time issues a call for world Jewry to reject the self-fulfilling image of “a people alone in the world, surrounded by enemies” and to reclaim Judaism’s original sense of purpose: as a partner with God and with those of other faiths in the never-ending struggle for freedom and social justice for all.We are in danger, says Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Elie Wiesel

    Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

    by Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen ...
    "Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel's interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more." — Publishers WeeklyNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and ... Read more

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  • How Judaism Became a Religion

    An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

    by Leora Batnitzky ...
    Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period--and why Jewish thinkers have ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 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 USD

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  • Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History

    by David Biale ...
    To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power.The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the conventions of what he terms the Jewish "mythical ... Read more

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  • 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

    $35.99 USD

  • The Female Face of God in Auschwitz

    A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust

    by Melissa Raphael ...
    Series series Religion and Gender
    The dominant theme of post-Holocaust Jewish theology has been that of the temporary hiddenness of God, interpreted either as a divine mystery or, more commonly, as God's deferral to human freedom. But traditional Judaic obligations of female presence, together with the traditional image of the Shekhinah as a figure of God's 'femaleness' accompanying Israel into exile, seem to contradict such ... Read more

    $78.99 USD