David I Kertzer Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award FinalistThe extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in...

Walter Burkert The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the...

Benjamin Blech In these troubled times, people are asking very difficult questions about God and their Benjamin Blech admits, the answers are not simple. There is no one-size-fits-all explanation. Indeed,...

Meir Tamari With the mounting interest in traditional Jewish texts, classes abound in Chumash, Talmud, Tehillim, and the Megillot. Yet the books of Nevi im through which a major part...

Arnold Blumberg This book studies the interaction of the European, Turkish, and Palestinian natives for a forty-two year period, just prior to when the great Jewish immigration to Palestine began....

Joel Covitz Thousands of years before Freud and Jung, the role of dream interpreter was an established profession among the Jewish nation who regarded these "Visions of the Night" as...

Moshe Halbertal While Scripture is at the center of many religions, among them Islam and Christianity, this book inquires into the function, development, and implications of the centrality of text...

Rabbi Berel Wein Patterns in Jewish History is Rabbi Berel Wein's masterful, thematic exploration of the history of the Jewish people. Through the prism of timeless themes: education, customs, anti-Semitism,...

Arie Morgenstern 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...

Rabbi Ari Ze'ev Schwartz The Inner Experience of Shabbat: Uncovering the Meaning Within its Laws and Customs Explore the spiritual depths of Shabbat through Rabbi Ari Ze'ev Schwartz's thoughtful examination...

Sir Walter Scott  Romance and Adventure! King Richard the Lion-Hearted. . . Robin Hood. . . the fair princess Rowena. . . the bewitching Rebecca. . . and the most...

Douglas Smith Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom...