R Travers Herford January 1, 1987 by Schocken

Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Martin Cuppers, Krista Smith (Translator)   "It is to the credit of the two authors of this book . . . that they have been assiduous in locating...

Yael Raviv When people discuss food in Israel, their debates ask politically charged Who has the right to falafel? Whose hummus is better? But Yael Raviv’s Falafel Nation moves beyond...

Anthony Stevens Every night we enter a mythic realm, a dark, primordial world of fear and desire. What this world offers, Anthony Stevens suggests, may well be the key to...

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...