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  • The Synagogue in America

    A Short History

    by Marc Lee Raphael ...
    "An insightful, scholarly, and comprehensive overview of the evolution and changing role of the American synagogue" ( Choice).In 1789, when George Washington was elected the first president of the United States, laymen from all six of the new nation's Jewish congregations sent him congratulatory letters. He replied to all six—thus recognizing these religious institutions as part of the new nation. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $28.79 USD

  • The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America

    Edited by Marc Lee Raphael ...
    This is the first anthology in more than half a century to offer fresh insight into the history of Jews and Judaism in America. Beginning with six chronological survey essays, the collection builds with twelve topical essays focusing on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience.The volume opens with early Jewish settlers (1654-1820), the expansion of Jewish life in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Messianism and the Resettlement of the Land of Israel

    by Arie Morgenstern, Joel A. Linsider ...
    Accounts of the history of Zionism usually trace its origins to the late nineteenth century. In this groundbreaking book, Arie Morgenstern argues that its roots go back even further. Morgenstern argues compellingly that the Jewish community in Israel may be traced back to a large-scale wave of immigration during the first half of the nineteenth century. Inspired by an expectation for the coming of ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • The Grandees

    America's Sephardic Elite

    by Stephen Birmingham ...
    The New World's earliest Jewish immigrants and their unique, little-known history: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Life at the Dakota.In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain ... Read more

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  • Jews, God, and History

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    A rich study of Jews and Jewish history that offers a unique look at a people who have persevered through unspeakable adversity and have contributed incredible advancements to the world we know today.How have the Jews survived through so many millennia while other civilizations have declined and perished? What qualities mark the culture that has produced Moses, Christ, Spinoza, Marx, Freud, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Jewish Annotated New Testament

    Edited by Amy-Jill Levine, Marc Z. Brettler ...
    Although major New Testament figures--Jesus and Paul, Peter and James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene--were Jews, living in a culture steeped in Jewish history, beliefs, and practices, there has never been an edition of the New Testament that addresses its Jewish background and the culture from which it grew--until now. In The Jewish Annotated New Testament, eminent experts under the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Medieval Hebrew: The Midrash, the Kabbalah

    by anonymous ...
    Translated by W. Wynn Westcott ...
    Medieval collections of Jewish biblical lore and legend. From Volume 4 of The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East. This volulme includes the Tanhuma Midrash, poems of Judah Halevi, the Book Cusari, Commentaries of Rabbi Ben Ezra, Advice of Maimonides, and The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela. ... Read more

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  • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared

    The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation

    by Alan Lew ...
    In this “journey of spiritual transformation” (Publishers Weekly) award winning author Rabbi Alan Lew follows the practices and rituals of the Jewish High Holy Days and guides readers through heartbreak, contemplation, and re-birth.There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • A History of Israel

    From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time

    by Howard M. Sachar ...
    First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar’s A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relatively young country. Decades later, readers can again be immersed in this monumental work.The second edition of this volume covers topics such as the first of the Aliyahs in the 1880s; the rise of Jewish ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kitab al Khazari, in English translation

    by Judah Hallevi ...
    Translated by Hartwig Hirschfeld ...
    "Framed as a dialog between the king of the Khazars, a Central Asian kingdom, and a Rabbi, the Khazari is an exposition of late medieval Jewish philosophy. Legend has it that the king of the Khazars held a symposium to decide whether his people should convert to Judaism, Christianity or Islam. This book is a fictional account of the Jewish side of this debate. Judah Ha-Levi, the author, was born ... Read more

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  • The Bible Doesn't Say That

    40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings

    by Joel M. Hoffman ...
    A "witty and accessible look at Scripture" that explores what the Bible meant before two millennia of mistranslations and misinterpretations ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In this fascinating book, acclaimed translator and biblical scholar Dr. Joel M. Hoffman walks the reader through dozens of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible. In forty short, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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