Jiri Langer A wonderful collection of Chassidic tales from central Europe. First published January 1, 1937

Nosson Slifkin The ancient and mysterious midrash of Perek Shirah uses verses from Scripture to illustrate the ''song'' of the different components and inhabitants of the natural world - their...

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin What do the great Jewish writings of the last 3,500 years tell us about these and all other vital questions about our lives? Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has...

Louis H Feldman Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true,...

Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (the Rav) was the towering rabbinic thinker of the twentieth century. In addition to his wellspring of Torah knowledge, the Rav taught,...

Roman A Foxbrunner Habad: The Hasidism of R. Shneur Zalman of Lyady is a scholarly examination of the philosophical and spiritual foundations of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism. Roman A. Foxbrunner provides an...

Betty Rojtman Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical exegesis, Betty Rojtman unveils a striking modernity in these early forms of textual...

Judah Nadich Explore the formative period of Jewish thought through Judah Nadich's scholarly examination of rabbinic legends. This work traces the teachings and narratives of the first generation of sages...

Judah Nadich Rabbi Akiba and His Contemporaries relates the stories told by and about the great rabbis and scholars of the talmudic period, and includes their ethical and moral teachings,...

Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus This book is about what makes food Jewish, or better, who and how one makes food Jewish. Making food Jewish is to negotiate between the local, regional, and...

Geza Vermes From the world's leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, Geza Vermes' The Story of the The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an ideal...

Gershom Scholem One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion....