Robert T Trotter II and Juan Antonio Chavira The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted...

Robert Chazan One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the...

Joshua Golding Kabbalah teaches that the Tetragrammaton, the four lettered Hebrew name of God, serves as a model for the ideal of spiritual living. Each letter of the Name corresponds...

Richard Kieckhefer This textbook deals with magic, both natural and demonic, within the broad context of medieval culture. Covering the years c. 500 to 1500, with a chapter on antiquity,...

Moshe Idel "Moshe Idel increasingly is seen as having achieved the eminence of Gershom Scholem in the study of Jewish mysticism. Ben, his book on the concept of sonship in...

Gedalyah Nigal Story-telling has been an integral part of the hasidic movement from its very beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present day. Stories about the holy hasidic leaders-the...

Peter Richardson In Peter Richardson''s acclaimed study, Herod is seen as a talented, vigorous, lusty, skilful, charismatic, attractive, decisive and influential ruler; however, his personal life was a disaster.' January...

Melila Hellner-Eshed In the Zohar , the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "A river flows from Eden to water the garden" (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the...

Randall Heskett and Joel Butler Winner of the Gourmand Wine Books prize for 'Best Drinks Writing Book' in the UKA fascinating journey through ancient wine country that reveals the drinking...

Gershom Scholem A groundbreaking text on alchemy by the leading scholar of Jewish mysticism is presented here for the first time in English translation. Scholem looks critically at the connections...

Abraham Rami Dayan “Wisdom from Zion” is a unique book, a vast collection of over 1,600 wisdom proverbs with their exact sources and the original quote where they first appeared....

Moshe Idel Primeval Evil analyzes the various versions of a theory maintaining the Kabbalistic visions as to the precedence of evil before good, within the divine realm and in the...