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...

David Hazony  ACROSS THE WESTERN WORLD, the Ten Commandments have become a source of inspiration and controversy, whether in court rulings, in film and literature, or as a religious icon...

Seth L Sanders The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent epigraphic discoveries on the extreme antiquity of the alphabet and its...

Akiva Bruck Emerging from the eighteenth-century remote villages of the Ukraine and Poland, the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov and his students have recently experienced an unprecedented revival within...

Arie S Issar Many times when the author saw the bedouins of southern Sinai excavate their wells in the crystalline rocks, from which this part of the peninsula is built,...

Perry Stone The Jewish people have thrived for more than four thousand years under both good and unthinkable circumstances. In Breaking The Jewish Code , Perry Stone helps readers unlock...

Kenneth R Stow Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming...

Shalom Goldman In a comprehensive examination of how Christian scholars in the United States received, interpreted, and understood Hebrew texts and the Jewish experience, Shalom Goldman explores Hebraism's relationship to...