A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.

In exploring her father's own gambling addiction, the author uncovers a hidden history of gambling in the Jewish community.

A critical edition, with notes and commentary, of the ancient Aramaic translation of the Torah.

Argues that debates about Jewish identity and assimilation are signs of creative potential rather than crisis.

Discusses the two most important figures in early Jewish mythologies of evil, the fallen angels Azazel and Satanael.

Multidisciplinary study of the citrus industry in Palestine before World War II.

A daughter struggles to get her mother to talk about her Holocaust experiences, and tries to understand how those experiences have shaped her own life.

A literary love story.

A new translation of a modern Yiddish masterpiece.

A vivid portrayal of the important role of Jews in American boxing history, and vice versa.

Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other. "

Examines how Israeli society has commemorated Yitzhak Rabin.

Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides’ work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.

Interviews with eighteen Jewish “hidden children” of France and Belgium, telling the story of their survival during World War II.

An introduction to the Zohar, the crowning work of medieval Kabbalah. Includes original translations and analysis.

Examines the variety of cinematic responses to the Holocaust as well as the Shoah’s impact on cinematic expression itself.

Explores the life and career of one of the twentieth century’s most colorful Zionist leaders.

Shows how Ozick’s characters attempt to mediate a complex Jewish identity, one that bridges the differences between traditional Judaism and secular American culture.

Examines the Jewish philosopher’s influence on theology, philosophy, medicine, and law, and his impact on later thinkers.

Reconciles the conflict between these two seemingly diverse traditions.

An original and revolutionary interpretation of the Jews’ destiny in modern politics.

Examines the social and cultural integration of Russian-speaking Jews and Germans who immigrated to their respective historic homelands.

Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.

Looks at how contemporary Jewish neighborhoods interact with both local and transnational influences.

A collection of works by nineteenth-century Russian religious philosopher V. S. Soloviev, critic of secularization, anti-Semitism, and the religious life of his time.

Examines radical and messianic movements in Israel seeking to rebuild the Third Temple in Jerusalem.

A groundbreaking collection of forty-two Israeli poetic voices protesting the occupation of the West Bank.

Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.

Explores the career of Abraham Abulafia, thirteenth-century founder of the school of ecstatic Kabbalah.

Examines the early works of German-Jewish philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973).

Uses the case of Israel to examine the circumstances that lead national courts to engage heated political issues.

Responses to Fackenheim’s reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience.

Selections from twenty-seven Hebrew poets, many of whose poems appear here in English for the first time.

The first book about the only two Reform Movement kibbutzim in Israel.

Explores rabbinic views of Ishmael, the biblical figure seen as the first Arab.

Analyzes the structure and logic of aggadic discourse in the Talmud.

Interrogates the normative heterosexual family from feminist, Jewish, and queer perspectives.

The Sabbath has been one of the most significant and beloved institutions of Jewish life since late antiquity. Over a period of several centuries, the classical Kabbalists developed a rich body of ritual ...

Introduces readers to comic and tragic masterpieces spanning 150 years of Yiddish drama.

A boy's world is shattered by the Holocaust.

An award-winning teacher takes a journey into alien territory: Austria, Hitler's birthplace, and the territory of her own hatred. A teaching memoir that offers a pedagogy of hope.

Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.

Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.

Illustrates Plato’s theory of the philosopher-king in the context of medieval and Renaissance Jewish thought.

Explores the factors that make for a meaningful life.

Presents the early published writings of the distinguished political philosopher Leo Strauss, available here for the first time in English. “Zank places at the reader’s disposal the young Strauss’s passionate advocacy of political Zionism and his early confrontations with Spinoza, consideration of whom helped lead Strauss to formulate his teaching on ‘the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns.’” — National Review

Explores Jewish aspects of Spinoza's philosophy from a wide variety of perspectives.

Examines how Maimonides integrates scriptural and rabbinic literature into his magnum opus, The Guide of the Perplexed.

Essays on images and representation in the writings of Philo of Alexandria.

Second volume documenting Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.

First volume documenting Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.

New and classic explorations of the work of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, a major Hasidic thinker, using a wide range of approaches.

Offers personal recollections of and critical perspectives on this major American author.

Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature.

Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust.

The story of an Israeli woman's struggle to forge her personal and professional identity.

A thorough analysis of the religious and ethnic identification of America's Jewish baby boomers.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

A selection of his more important writings.

Attempts to discover a coherent unity in rabbinic theology.

Essays in honor of Oskar Brecher.

Presents parts of the Judaic tradition of wisdom, concentrating on the oral part of the Torah, represented by the documents of law and scriptural exegesis.

Describes the actual mode of thought of the Rabbis of the Midrash and the Talmud, and indicates how they derived their own moral teachings from the Bible.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

Explores how modern Judaism has balanced between universalism and particularism.

Compiles some longer review essays and somewhat briefer reviews of single titles from his collected work of the 1990s.

Examines each rabbinic text or sequence of homilies in order to uncover specific value concepts which are reflected in them either explicitly or implicitly.

Explores the wider aspects of the rabbinic mind.

Describes how Halakah, or Jewish Law, enables the individual to achieve religious experience.

Explores the religious experience of Judaism through the perceptions and teachings of ordinary Jews and the creative elite.

A selection of his more important writings.

Thorough analysis of rabbinic thought.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

Tells the story of young people’s volunteer efforts as part of the American Jewish Society for Service.

A selection of his more important writings.

A collection of lectures given at Queen’s University by academics in Judaic Studies.

Examines the notion of divine incarnations as a central element of the portrait of God that came into focus through the Judaism of the dual Torah.

Reviews the potentially complementary albeit sharp differences between two important contemporary Jewish philosophers.

Illustrates how the American Conservative Movement in Judaism can continue to prosper amidst ideological and institutional challenges.

Focusing on the more than one million Jewish children and adolescents living in the United States, this book questions the future of the Jewish community's next generation.

A revealing study of this important medieval Jewish poet and his relation to Islamic thought.

This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.

Through translation and commentary, this book presents the final visionary statements of the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.

This major intellectual response to the leading theologian of liberal Judaism provides a significant indication of future directions in Jewish religious thought.

Traces the development of the concepts of time, cosmology, and creation in medieval Jewish philosophy.

Examines the history, philosophy and hermeneutics, and law and literature of formative Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Based on a close reading of New Testament passages, Choi counters the theses on repentance and restitution proposed by New Testament scholar E. P. Sanders.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Marianne Wallenberg’s life story.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Offers a penetrating cross-cultural analysis of the enduring genre of parables, revealing a dramatic social, cultural, and political shift in the way we view the divine.

Recounts the author’s experiences during the Holocaust, from the time of the Nazi invasion of Poland to the liberation of the Theresienstadt concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945.

Examines Maimonides' political thought in light of his medieval Aristotelian and Jewish sources.

Uncovers the underlying structures of Martin Buber's thought across his diverse writings.