Andrew Neher In this philosophical discussion Neher relates the lives of prominent 19th and 20th century Jews to traditional Jewish thought on issues of assimilation, the Holocaust, and liberal intellectualism....

Kelley Buckeley, PhD and the Reverend Patricia Buckley Documented throughout time and across cultures, dreams experienced by those on the verge of death can offer profound insight into the process...

Sigmund Freud Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced...

Ken Frieden Frieden explores methods of dream interpretation in the Bible, the Talmud, and in the writings of Sigmund Freud, and brings to light Freud's troubled relationship to his Judaic...

Karel C Berkhoff “If I find a Ukrainian who is worthy of sitting at the same table with me, I must have him shot,” declared Nazi commissar Erich Koch. To...

GM Goshgarian, Dimitri Meeks, Christine Favard-Meeks This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of wonderment at...

Wolfgang Schivelbusch From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting...

Leonard J Greenspoon (Editor), Ronald A Simkins (Editor), Gerald Shapiro (Editor) Food is not simply a popularly imagined and well-known manifestation of Jewish culture. For Jews, food has been a...

Joseph Campbell The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence...

Mark Kurlansky In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat,...

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all...

Timothy W Ryback January 1, 2010 by Vintage Books USA