Howard M Sachar First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar’s  A History of From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available...

Gedalyah Nigal The first study of its kind, Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism explores the supernatural motifs and elements in Jewish folktales and hasidic stories through the ages. Thoroughly researched and...

Shmuel Boteach In its Hebrew translation, Widsom, Understanding and Knowledge is the acronym for Chabad--the hasidic movement dedicated to the affirmation of Judaism's fundamental and mystical beliefs. This book is...

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....

Avraham Yaakov Finkel The Great Chasidic Masters by Avraham Yaakov Finkel is a scholarly exploration of the foundational figures and teachings that shaped Hasidic Judaism. Finkel examines the lives, philosophies,...

Robert Hayward Robert Hayward offers a careful analysis of surviving accounts of the Temple and its service. All the central texts are provided in translation, with a detailed commentary. While...

Wolfgang Behringer Shaman of Oberstdorf tells the fascinating story of a sixteenth-century mountain village caught in a panic of its own making. Four hundred years ago the Bavarian alpine town of...

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...

Jack Friedman Perhaps no other city has been spoken of as often or as passionately as Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Book of Quotations brings together the kaleidoscopic impressions and perspectives of...

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,...

Yehudah Chayoun A discussion of Messianic principles, from two points of Halacha is Jewish legal discussion and ruling, while Aggadah is Jewish theological/narrative discussion. August 1, 1994 by Targum Press

Elijah Judah Schochet January 1, 1984 by Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc