Macy Nulman Fifteen years in the making, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer is a monumental achievement. Never before has such a comprehensive resource been available to those searching for answers...

Pierre Birnbaum and Ira Katznelson Throughout the nineteenth century, legal barriers to Jewish citizenship were lifted in Europe, enabling organized Jewish communities and individuals to alter radically their relationships with...

Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick For as long as human history has been recorded, people have been fascinated by their dreams. From the mystical visions in the Bible to Freud, Jung...

John A Sanford A lively and succinct interpretation of dreams that takes into account both spiritual and scientific views.  January 1, 1978 by Paulist Press

Shmuel Goldin Unlocking the Torah Text provides an in-depth journey into the Torah portion through a series of studies on each parsha. Each study opens with a brief summary of...

Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist...

Chaim Nussbaum The Essence of Teshuvah: A Path to Repentance offers a profound exploration of Jewish spiritual return and moral transformation. Authored by Chaim Nussbaum, this work examines the philosophical...

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been...

Michael E Stone Ancient Judaism questions a broad range of basic assumptions made by students of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of approaches to Jewish history...

Joshua Berman When thinking of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem, one often conjures up images of animal sacrifice, pilgrimages to the Holy City on religious festivals, and the High Priest...

Steven J Zipperstein Here is a long overdue biography of the guiding intellectual presence—and chief internal critic—of Zionism during the movement's formative years between the 1880s and the 1920s. Ahad...

Ada Rapoport-Albert Hasidism has been a seminal force and a source of controversy in the Jewish world since its inception in the second half of the 18th century. Indeed, almost...