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  • Embracing Exile

    The Case for Jewish Diaspora

    by David Kraemer ...
    A new interpretation of historical and contemporary Jewish texts that views diaspora as a positive outcome for Jews and for the world Jewish people have always wandered. According to their origin story, they wandered from Ur of Chaldees to Canaan, then Egypt, and then back to Canaan. From there, they were exiled to Babylon, where they lived for centuries. They also settled in Persia, Egypt, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Embracing Exile

    The Case for Jewish Diaspora

    by David Kraemer ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 26 min

    Jewish people have always wandered. According to their origin story, they wandered from Ur of Chaldees to Canaan, then Egypt, and then back to Canaan. From there, they were exiled to Babylon, where they lived for centuries. They also settled in Persia, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, England, and the United States, among other places. Diaspora became normal to Jews, and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Henry V

    Directed by David Timson

    Unabridged

    3 hours 6 min

    This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the seventh Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press. ... Read more

    $12.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism

    by David Kraemer ...
    There are many books devoted to explicating Jewish laws and customs relating to death and mourning and a wealth of studies addressing the significance of death practices around the world. However, never before has there been a study of the death and mourning practices of the founders of Judaism - the Rabbis of late antiquity. The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism fills that gap.The author ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Rabbinic Judaism

    Space and Place

    by David Kraemer ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, Jews were faced with a world in existential chaos—both they and their God were rendered homeless. In a religious tradition that had equated Divine approval with peaceful dwelling on the Land, this situation was intolerable. So the rabbis, aspirants for leadership of the post ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish identity, from the Bible to the present. The lessons of this book rest squarely on the much-quoted insight: 'you are what you eat.' But this book goes beyond that simple truism to recognise that you are not only what you eat, but also how, when, where and with whom you eat. This book begins at the beginning – with the Torah – and then ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • A History of the Talmud

    It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the Talmud in Judaism and beyond. Yet its difficult language and its assumptions, so distant from modern sensibilities, render it inaccessible to most readers. In this volume, David C. Kraemer offers students of Judaism a sophisticated and accessible introduction to one of the religion's most important texts. Here, he brings together his expertise ... Read more

    $127.99 USD

  • The Art of Teaching Russian

    A comprehensive guide to Russian-language instruction combining the latest research, pedagogy, and practice. The Art of Teaching Russian offers practitioners current research, pedagogical thinking, and specific methodologies for teaching the Russian language and culture in the twenty-first century. With contributions from the leading professionals in the field, this collection covers the most ... Read more

    $89.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Your Health

    How to Understand What Research Tells Us about Risk

    The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, others accepted as "scientific truth" for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true. Physicians are faced with trying to make sense of those conflicting or questionable results in the scientific literature in order to guide their patients to the best ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Your Values-Based Legacy

    Making a Difference at Every Age and Phase of Life

    Unabridged

    7 hours 11 min

    In Your Values-Based Legacy, the fourth book in Harry Kraemer's series on values-based leadership, you are invited on a journey of introspection and exploration to discover how you can help make the world a better place. As a former chairman and CEO of a multi-billion-dollar global healthcare company and now a professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Tempest

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    2 hours 2 min

    Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2014 production of The Tempest, Shakespeare's magical romantic comedy, directed by Tony Taccone. This stunning work of audio theater, fully dramatized with performances by the OSF cast, is a must-listen.Rough magic and brave new worlds …For twelve years, the exiled Duke Prospero has waited for this moment: old enemies have ... Read more

    $13.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection

    Unabridged

    2 hours 18 min

    Shakespeare’s most imaginative and merry play is set in an enchanted wood amidst fairies and sprites.When Oberon, King of the Fairies, uses his magic upon four runaway lovers in a midsummer wood outside Athens, chaos ensues. Who really loves whom? Meanwhile, a band of well-meaning but bungling local actors have their rehearsal sabotaged by the mischievous Puck, who bewitches their leader, Bottom, ... Read more

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