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  • Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book

    by Joseph Lovett, Genie Milgrom, Dolores Sloan, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Annette B. Fromm, Stanley M. Hordes, Hilary Klotz Steinman, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila, Isabelle Medina Sandoval, Matthew D. Warshawsky, Seth D. Kunin0 ...
    Series series Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
    Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book offers close examinations of a manuscript written over a 20-year period by Loggie Carrasco, a well-known crypto-Jew from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The manuscript includes a wide range of genres: folklore, memory, ritual practices, genealogy, and most significantly poetry and songs. Although the manuscript remains unpublished, this book utilizes ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Juggling Identities

    Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews

    by Seth Kunin ...
    Juggling Identities is an extensive ethnography of the crypto-Jews who live deep within the Hispanic communities of the American Southwest. Critiquing scholars who challenge the cultural authenticity of these individuals, Seth D. Kunin builds a solid link between the crypto-Jews of New Mexico and their Spanish ancestors who secretly maintained their Jewish identity after converting to Catholicism, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

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  • Judaism Made Simple: Flash

    by C. M. Hoffman ...
    The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Judaism Made Simple is a short and to-the-point guide to Judaism. In just 96 pages, the reader will learn all about the history, beliefs and traditions of this major world faith. Ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely ... Read more

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  • Witnesses to the One

    The Spiritual History of the Sh'ma

    by Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler ...
    An exploration of Judaism's most sacred statement and world-changing idea. "Hear O Israel, the Eternal is Our God, the Eternal is One!" There is arguably no more important statement in Judaism than the Sh'ma. Its words—calling us to hear, to listen, to pay attention—defy direct translation and have meant different things throughout history. In a deeply personal exploration of this sacred ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Words: Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talk

    by Lawrence Kushner ...
    According to the Hebrew Bible, God made the world with words. God just spoke and the world became reality. (The Aramaic for I create as I speak is avara kdavara, or in magicians language, abracadabra.) . . . This does not protect words from the numbing effects of overuse in any religious tradition. . . . We need to dust off the words, shake away the accretions, wonder again about what they ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Yiddishe Kop

    Creative Problem Solving in Jewish Learning, Lore, and Humor

    by Rabbi Nilton Bonder ...
    The Jews are known for their intuitive genius in getting out of a pickle. With their long history of persecution, they've developed a knack for escaping seemingly hopeless predicaments: when your back is against the wall, you learn to think fast. Centuries of reasoning and interpreting the Holy Scriptures have also contributed to the Jews' skill in solving the most puzzling problems. This astute ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Israel Has Moved

    by Diana Pinto ...
    Israel has changed. The country was born in Europe’s shadow, haunted by the Holocaust and inspired by the Enlightenment. But for Israelis today, Europe is hardly relevant, and the country’s ties to the broader West, even to America, are fraying. Where is Israel heading? How do citizens of an increasingly diverse nation see themselves globally and historically?In this revealing portrait of the new ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Holy Fire

    The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto

    by Nehemia Polen ...
    The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto is a journey into the mind and spirit of a sublime hasidic master in his moments of joy and tranquillity, and later, in his time of personal and communal catastrophe. The reader takes a voyage into the rich and variegated world of twentieth-century Hasidism in Poland, a world destroyed by the Holocaust. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Let There Be Light

    Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah: A New Conversation Between Science and Religion

    by PhD Howard Smith ...
    In Let There Be Light, Howard Smith, a research astrophysicist and traditionally observant Jew, explores how modern scientific understandings of the cosmos complement Judaism's ancient mystical theology, the Kabbalah. He argues that science and religion are not only compatible, but that a healthy, productive dialogue between the two sheds light on ethics, free will, and the nature of life, while ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Criminal Kabbalah

    An Intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction

    Edited by Lawrence W. Raphael ...
    An intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective FictionTerence Ball, The Banality of EvilSandra Levy Ceren, Silver Is Better Than GoldMartin S. Cohen, Death Has BeckonedRichard Fliegel, The Golem of Bronx Park EastMichael A. Kahn, Truth in a Plain Brown WrapperStuart M. Kaminsky</stro... ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Torah of the Earth Vol 1

    Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought: Zionism & Eco-Judaism

    Edited by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow ...
    Can we re-imagine our relationship to the earth—using theviewpoints and texts of the last four millennia?Human responses to the natural world stretching back through the last 4,000 years come to life in this major new resource providing a diverse group of ecological and religious voices. It gives us an invaluable key to understanding the intersection of ecology and Judaism, and offers the wisdom ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Holy Brother

    Inspiring Stories and Enchanted Tales about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

    by Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum ...
    Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was one of the most original and inspired Jewish personalities of the twentieth century. In this incredible volume, Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum, a devoted student of Reb Shlomo, gathers dozens of stories about this charismatic, loving Jewish leader. The episodes retold here by Reb Shlomo's followers and admirers underscore his unfailing generosity, his capacity to love ... Read more

    $30.79 USD