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 ...

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.

Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today.

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

First volume documenting Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.

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

Second volume documenting Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.

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

In this literary memoir, poet and essayist Michael Heller interweaves family and personal history with reflections on language, poetry, religion, and memory itself.

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

A selection of his more important writings.

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

A selection of his more important writings.

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 how modern Judaism has balanced between universalism and particularism.

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

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.

Essays in honor of Oskar Brecher.

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

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

Explores the wider aspects of the rabbinic mind.

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