Jeffrey Herf The sheer magnitude of the Holocaust has commanded our attention for the past sixty years. The extent of atrocities, however, has overshadowed the calculus Nazis used to justify...

Heidemarie Wawrzyn This book focuses on the relationship of Palestine-Germans with Arabs and Jews in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1933 to 1948/50: Young Germans marched through Haifa shouting...

Jeffrey M Cohen Everything you wanted to know about the Passover tradition and rituals. February 1, 1996 by Jason Aronson Inc

Y David Shulman The Jewish mystical tradition teaches that in order to create the many planes of being that culminated in our world, God brought into being ten sefirot, or...

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh The Ba'al Shem Tov, the 18th century founder of the Chassidic movement whose teachings are rooted in Kabbalah, revealed that any process of spiritual growth must proceed...

Rabbi Ezra Bick Our recitation of the Thirteen Middot HaRahamim (God's Attributes of Mercy) is the focal point of Selihot and the highlight of Ne'ila on Yom Kippur. How are...

Shaye JD Cohen In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were...

Jacob Neusner (Editor), Ernest S. Frerichs (Editor), Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher (Editor) Every culture makes the distinction between "true religion" and magic, regarding one action and its result as "miraculous,"...

David I Kertzer Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award FinalistThe extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in...

Walter Burkert The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the...

Benjamin Blech In these troubled times, people are asking very difficult questions about God and their Benjamin Blech admits, the answers are not simple. There is no one-size-fits-all explanation. Indeed,...

Meir Tamari With the mounting interest in traditional Jewish texts, classes abound in Chumash, Talmud, Tehillim, and the Megillot. Yet the books of Nevi im through which a major part...