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A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Part II): from Noah to Abraham
by Umberto Moshe David Cassuto; tr. Israel Abrahams / Varda Books

By extending his method of exegesis in this volume to another section of the Torah, Cassuto indirectly buttressed his theories with new evidence of the inherent rightness of his approach.

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Jerusalem Curiosities
by Abraham E. Millgram / Varda Books

This volume not only seeks to provide pleasurable reading but also enables the reader to grasp Jerusalem's unique role in the history of mankind. Those who read this book will encounter Jerusalem with eyes that see and hearts that understand.

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Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash
by Hermann L. Strack / Varda Books

The classic work on the field. Not for beginners; for those interested in a more historical and critical study of Talmud and Midrash.

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Talmud Yerushalmi: A Concordance of Amoraic Terms, Expressions and Phrases, in 3 vols.
by Assis Moshe / The Jewish Theological Seminary Press

A concordance of Amoraic terminology in Talmud Yerushalmi designed to assist to come much closer to the original text of the Yerushalmi and to its accurate interpretation.

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Ethics of Responsibility: Pluralistic Approaches to Conventional Ethics
by Walter S Wurzburger / Varda Books

Ethics of Responsibility bridges the gap between liberal Jewish philosophy and modern Orthodoxy. It is thoughtful reading for both the Jewish and non-Jewish scholar, teacher, and for all readers interested in the study of ethics and morality.

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The International Critical Commentary (ICC): Jobs (in 2 volumes)
by GEORGE BUCHANAN Gray / Varda Books

Electronic edition of the massive commentary on the Book of Job.

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Studies in Jewish Education VII: The Beginnings of Jewish Educational Institutions
by Walter Ackerman / Varda Books

ORIGINS: THE BEGINNINGS OF JEWISH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

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JEWS, JUDAISM AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD
by Gedalyahu Alon / Varda Books

English edition of the work for which G. Alon received prestigious Israel Prize. Anyone interested in the origin of the modern Jewish law and the history of the Second Temple must read this book.

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Studies in Jewish Education V: Teaching Classical Jewish Texts
by Howard Deitcher / Varda Books

This volume is dedicated to issues arising in the process of teaching classical Jewish texts.

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Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew (Scripta Hierosolymitana, XXXVII)
by Moshe Bar-Asher / Varda Books

The twenty-two articles in this collection represent the latest results of the research into Mishnaic Hebrew that is conducted in Israel.

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Christianity and Judaism: Two Covenants
by Yehezkel Kaufmann / Varda Books

A great historian of Jewish religion analyzes the conflictual relationship between Christianity and Judaism.

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THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN
by Yehezkel Kaufmann / Varda Books
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Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher
by Benzion Netanyahu / Varda Books

The story of an extraordinary personality in the history of the Jewish people. Abravanel symbolizes a life of a true son of G-d`s chosen people.

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A Commentary on the Book of Exodus
by Umberto Moshe David Cassuto; tr. Israel Abrahams / Varda Books

The last of the commentaries rendered into English, this Cassuto's work ranks among the finest modern contributions to the treasury of Biblical learning.

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The International Critical Commentary (ICC): SAMUEL I & II
by Henry Preserved Smith / Varda Books

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History of the Jews, Vol. 3: From the Revolt against the Zendik (511 C.E.) to the Capture of St. Jean d'Acreby by the Mahometans (1291 C.E.)
by Heinrich Graetz / Varda Books

A condensed reproduction of the first comprehensive attempt to write the history of the Jews as the history of a living people and from a Jewish point of view. The third volume covers the period from the revolt against the Zendik to the capture of St. Jean d'Acreby by the Mahometans.

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The International Critical Commentary (ICC): HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH, MALACHI AND JONAH
by Hinckley G. Mitchell, JOHN MERLIN POWIS SMITH, JULIUS A. BEWER, / Varda Books

For all the talk about Bible being a source of Western ethics, Mitchell's is one of the very few books extant that pays more then a lip service to this concept.

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Sunset Possibilities and Other Poems
by G.; Friend, R Preil / Varda Books

Continuing the high standards of the JPS Jewish Poetry Series, this volume presents poems that have become twentieth-century classics. Included are eighty poems printed in English and Hebrew on facing pages.

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Lost Love: The Untold Story of Henrietta Szold
by Baila R. Shargel / Varda Books

The book tells the story of Henrietta Szold`s lost love through her correspondence with Louis Ginzberg and a previously unpublished private journal.

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Consolation for the Tribulations of Israel
by Martin A. Cohen / Varda Books

Many centuries ago a thoughtful and scholarly Jew asked the question: Why do the righteous suffer? Anxious to help us reach out for an answer, a brilliant young scholar, Martin A. Cohen, has prepared a translation of Consolaзam as tribulaзoens de Israel, a history of the Jews written by a Portuguese Marrano who had witnessed the tragic events that befell his people in Portugal in the first half of the sixteenth century.

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Labor, Crafts and Commerce in Ancient Israel
by Moshe Aberbach / Varda Books

Extensive collection of anecdotal evidence relating to labor, crafts, and trade as thought of and practiced by Sages of the Second Temple and early exilic period.

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AN EMPIRE IN THE HOLY LAND
by BIGER GIDEON / Varda Books
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Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew
by Neil Gillman / Varda Books

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, this book will be a stimulating and rewarding step to exploring and restoring Jewish theology – and faith – at a time when belief is continually challenged and yet so very needed.

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THE EIGHT CHAPTERS OF MAIMONIDES ON ETHICS
by Joseph Gorfinkle / Varda Books
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Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament
by S. R. Driver / Varda Books

Long the standard English work on the subject, now is prepared to work interactively with Hebrew-English Tanakh: the Jewish Bible.

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To Do the Right and the Good
by Elliot N. Dorff / Varda Books

A thought-provoking examination of Jewish social ethics in relation to the mores of contemporary society. In this book, Rabbi Dorff focuses on the social aspects of the Jewish tradition, while tackling such timely topics as war and peace, poverty, intrafaith and interfaith relations, and forgiveness.

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Tanna Debe Eliyyahu: The Lore of the School of Elijah
by William G. Braude (Gershon Zev) (Translator) / Varda Books

Tanna debe Eliyyahu is a midrashic work thought to have been composed between the third and the tenth centuries. Unlike all the other Midrashim, it is a unified work shaped with a character of its own. This work has never before been translated from the original Hebrew.

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JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis
by Nahum M. Sarna / Varda Books

The JPS Torah Commentary series guides readers through the words and ideas of the Torah. Each volume is the work of a scholar who stands at the pinnacle of his field.

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Tractate Ta'anis: Commentary and Study Guide
by Nachman Cohen / Varda Books

This is "hard-core" serious commentary on traditional Jewish belief that climatic conditions are entirely dependent upon the deeds of people. Taanis, one of the most interesting Talmudic Tractates, explicates this principle.

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Louis Ginzberg: Keeper of the Law
by Louis Ginzberg / Varda Books

First published in 1966, Louis Ginzberg: Keeper of the Law is an unusual biography. It was written by a son about his father, by an interpreter of economics about an interpreter of rabbinics. It is done with obvious charm, with deep affection for the subject, and yet with surprising objectivity.

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JPS Bible Commentary: Jonah
by Uriel Simon / Varda Books

This fine commentary is based closely on the author's original Hebrew commentary (Am Oved, 1992), with some revision and expansion.

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Studies in Jewish Education IV: Curriculum and the teaching of Hebrew
by Janet Aviad / Varda Books

The present volume, the fourth in the series Studies in Jewish Education, is dedicated to the subject of curriculum and the teaching of Hebrew.

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The End of Time
by David Horowitz / Varda Books

A stunning departure from the polemics and social criticism that have made Horowitz one of our most controversial public intellectuals, The End of Time is a wide ranging, unflinching and lyrical meditation on subjects ranging from what parents inadvertently teach us in their deaths, to the forbidding reality of the cancer ward and the way in which figures like Mohammed Atta use death to become gods of their own mad creation.

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A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Part I): from Adam to Noah
by Umberto Moshe David Cassuto; tr. Israel Abrahams / Varda Books

One of the greatest masterpieces of Jewish Biblical scholarship directed against the Documentary Hypothesis or so-called Higher Critisism.

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BOOKS OF KINGS
by M. A. Burney / Varda Books
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Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
by Leon R. Kass / Varda Books

Thoughful, often profound writting about the limits of science and the limits of life, about what makes us human and gives us human dignity.

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Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics Of American Jewry (Revised and Updated Edition)
by Daniel J. Elazar / Varda Books

Community and Polity explores in depth the developments in the American Jewish community in the post-WWII period. Like the first edition, it is designed to serve two purposes: to provide a basic survey of the structure and functions of the American Jewish community and to suggest how that community should be understood as a polity that is not a state but is no less real from a political perspective.

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Candles in the Night: Jewish Tales by Gentile Authors
by Joseph Baron / Varda Books

To keep aglow the candles of human sympathy, the editor has compiled nearly a thousand items of significant non-Jewish literary and historical expression about the Jews. This volume includes twenty-three short stories and episodes from fourteen different national literatures.

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The Birobidzhan Affair: A Yiddish Writer in Siberia
by Israel Emiot / Varda Books

The Birobidzhan Affair is the autobiography, “a chronicle of heart-rending events” recounting Emiot's eight years at hard labor in various work camps in Siberia. Poignant, remarkably understated in tone, it provides evidence of his travails as a Jewish victim of the bitter bureaucracy that was Stalinist Russia.

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Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest
by David Hartman / Varda Books

In this original study, noted scholar and theologian David Hartman discusses the relation between Maimonides' halakhic writings and The Guide of the Perplexed. This pioneering work earned Dr. Hartman a National Jewish Book Award for a book on Jewish thought.

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The Pharisees: The Sociological Background of Their Faith (2 volume-set)
by Louis Finkelstein / Varda Books

The Pharisees constituted a religious Order of singular influence in the history of civilization. Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism all derive from this ancient Palestinian Society. This book uncovers the origins and fundamental aspects of Pharisees' faith from sociological point of view.

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Studies in Jewish Education I: Theory and Research
by Barry Chazan / Varda Books

The focus of this volume is the state of the Jewish educational research and its impact on practice.

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Tractate Rosh Hashana
by Nachman Cohen / Varda Books

For those who wish to go beyond superficial, Master A Mesikta Series is a perfect companion for the study of Talmud. The series provides important background information on Talmud and clarifies its content by focusing on controversies that give it such a power. Using outlines, elucidations, pointed comments, explanations of the sequence, topic overviews, and highlighting the interaction between aggadic portions and legal discussions, the author enables a student to rapidly master material

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The House of Nasi: The Duke of Naxos
by Cecil Roth / Varda Books

Joseph Nasi, Duke of Naxos, Lord of Tiberias, was a Marrano or “converse,” knighted by Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire, a jousting partner of Emperor Maximillian, and a court advisor to Suleiman the Magnificent. During his astonishing life as a statesman, financier, and philanthropist in sixteenth-century Europe, he moved across the continent from Antwerp to Paris, to Naples, to Rome, and from there to Constantinople, where he reembraced Judaism.

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Rabad of Posquieres: A Twelfth-Century Talmudist
by Isadore Twersky / Varda Books

This biographical treatise captures the personality of Rabbad of Posquieres or Rabbi Abraham ben David – one of the most creative talmudic scholars of the twelfth century, chronicles his role in the intellectual history of the Jews in southern France during the twelfth century, and outlines his influence on subsequent generations.

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Does God Belong in the Bedroom?
by Michael Gold / Varda Books

In Does God Belong in the Bedroom? Rabbi Michael Gold turns to the Torah, the wisdom of the rabbis of the Talmud, the Midrash, and other classic Jewish sources. More than a study of texts, the book presents readers with a frank and honest approach to sexual ethics.

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The Jews of Moslem Spain, Vol. 1
by Eliyahu Ashtor / Varda Books

This is the first volume of a monumental survey of the Jewish community in Spain under Moslem rule. (See second and third volumes here). It offers the reader access to a difficult subject. The period is recreated in a narrative that flows with life and vitality...unmatched for scholarship and readability.

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Smoke Over Birkenau
by Liana Millu / Varda Books

The astonishing stories in Smoke Over Birkenau tell of the women who lived and suffered alongside Liana Millu during her months in the concentration camp.

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A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ (in 5 vols.)
by Emil Schurer, D.D., M.A. / Varda Books

"The most valuable general modern work (on the subject) . . . "

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Tosefta Ki-Fshutah v. 12
by Saul Lieberman / The Jewish Theological Seminary Press

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Notes on the New Translation of the Torah
by Harry M. Orlinsky / Varda Books

Written with admirable clarity of style and thought, this volume of Notes is capable of being read and appreciated by anyone interested in the process by which modern and classical biblical scholarship are fused together to deepen our understanding of the single most significant book in the Jewish tradition.

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Israel and the Nations
by Bloch, Joseph S. / Varda Books

Israel and the Nations is a handbook of Jewish apologetics. The author's primary goal was to put together all the arguments of Jew-baiting and to explain their nature and origin. This work is a source of information and reference for all those who are in quest of enlightenment.

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Studies in Jewish Education XIII: Modes of Educational Translation
by Jonathan Cohen / Varda Books

This volume is concerned with the possibility of “translating” insights derived from areas of knowledge sometimes thought to be outside the purview of education – to issues and problems on the agenda of educational thinkers, researchers and practitioners.

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JPS Torah Commentary: Exodus
by Nahum M. Sarna / Varda Books

Masterly commentary on the second book of the Bible by eminent Jewish scholar.

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From Diplomacy to Resistance: A History of Jewish Palestine, 1939-1945
by Yehuda Bauer / Varda Books

The Second World War was a crucial period in the history of Jewish Palestine. Between 1939 and 1945, the Zionist movement and Jewish Palestine underwent considerable transformation. This carefully documented work recounts the events of that period of time.

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THE CONCILIATOR
by Manasseh Ben Israel / Varda Books
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History of the Jews in Aragon. Hispania Judaica, v. 1
by Assis Yom / Varda Books

More than 3,500 regesta in French, and original documents mostly from the Archivo General de la Corona de Aragon, in Barcelona.

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The Life of the People in Biblical Times
by Max Radin / Varda Books

When books survive as long as our biblical collection has survived, a certain discrepancy between intention and comprehension is inevitable. But if we wish to read attentively, we must make the effort to reconstruct the concrete shell of the past as well as its essential spiritual factors. This is exactly what this book gives us.

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Studies in Jewish Education VIII: Teaching Classical Rabbinic Texts
by Asher Shkedi / Varda Books

THIS VOLUME FOCUSES ON THE PROBLEMS OF TEACHING CLASSICAL RABBINIC TEXTS.

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The Torah: The Five Books of Moses
by JPS / Varda Books

This acclaimed new translation of the Torah--the Holy Scriptures of the Jewish people,--was prepared according to the Masoretic Text by the Jewish Publication Society (Philadelphia), world`s oldest Jewish book publisher. Electronic version of it, which is a searchable replica of the printed version was prepared by Varda Books in 2002, with all the latest corrections and revisions having been incorporated.

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The International Critical Commentary (ICC): Psalms (in 2 volumes)
by Charles A. Briggs, / Varda Books

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The Jews of Egypt: From Ramses II to Emperor Hadrian
by Joseph Modrzejewski / Varda Books

This is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the Jewish people in the land of Egypt – shrouded in the mists of biblical history under the Pharaohs; the strange intermezzo of the Jewish mercenary detachment on the island of Elephantine on the upper Nile; the apogee of Jewish culture under the Ptolemies; and, finally, the Jewish community's rapid decline and catastrophic disappearance under Roman rule.

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Blessed is the Match: The Story of Jewish Resistance
by Marie Syrkin / Varda Books

This book is a classic account of Jewish tragedy, faith, hope, and triumph. Published originally in 1947, it is one of the first works to deal with the horrors and the heroism of the Holocaust years.

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Studies in History (Scripta Hierosolymitana XXIII)
by David Asheri / Varda Books

This anthology contains such articles as "The Holy Congregation in Jerusalem" by S. Safrai, "Persecutions and Maryrdom in Hadrian's Days" by M. D. Herr, "The Imperial Court-Jew Wolf Werthheimer as Dimlomatic Mediator" by B. Mevorah, "To whom did Mendelssohn Reply in his Jerusalem", by Jacob Katz, "Caesar: An Economic Biography and its Political Significance" by I. Shatzman and others.

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ANCIENT PLACE NAMES IN THE HOLY LAND
by Elitzur Yoel / Varda Books
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The Book of Delight and Other Papers
by Israel Abrahams / Varda Books

The book contains eight chapters of an absorbing text, including The Book of Delight, A Visit to Hebron, Medieval Mayfaring, and Marriages Are Made in Heaven.

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The Jews of Yugoslavia: A Quest for Community
by Harrie Freidenreich / Varda Books

This work is a pioneer study of a little-known part of the modern Jewish world that is at once unique and a microcosm of European Jewry as a whole. The story of the Jews of Yugoslavia can be seen as a quest for community, to forge a unity of communal purpose and endeavor.

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THE EVOLUTION OF EXODUS TRADITION
by SAMUEL E. LOEWENSTAMM / Varda Books

A comprehensive literary inquiry into a history of the Exodus tradition as it has evolved through time. The book examines the narrative of Exodus, compares it to biblical sources as well as to information provided in Apocryphic, Pseudepigrahic, Hellenistic and Midrashic documents.

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The International Critical Commentary (ICC): ESTHER
by Lewis Bayles Paton / Varda Books

Extraodinary book which retained its freshness and technical insight after almost a century of existance.

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The Bunker
by Charles Goldstein / Varda Books

The book tells a story of seven Jews who succeeded in escaping the massacre of Jews that followed the Warsaw uprising in 1944. From about September 1944 until January 1945 the author lived with six others in a bunker under inconceivable conditions. Yet they survived. How they managed this is told in The Bunker.

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Tractate Berakhos & Tamid v. I: Commentary and Study Guide
by Nachman Cohen / Varda Books

Master A Mesikta Series is a perfect perfect companion for the study of Talmud. Designed for those who already know something, the series provides important background information on Talmud and clarifies its content using outlines, elucidations of its text and commentaries: it explains the sequence of Talmud's texts, overviews discussed topics, zooms in on how aggadic portions of Talmud interact with its legal discussions, and much more...

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The International Critical Commentary (ICC): Judges
by George F. Moore / Varda Books

The commentary, which pays a close attention to early history of social and religious life of Israel.

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History of the Jews: Complete Set in 6 Volumes
by Heinrich Graetz / Varda Books

A condensed reproduction of the entire eleven volumes of the “Geschichte der Juden,” the first comprehensive attempt to write the history of the Jews as the history of a living people and from a Jewish point of view.

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A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, in 3 Volumes
by Henry Charles Lea / Varda Books

Henry Charles Lea`s three-volume The History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (sold as a set only) is widely regarded by scholars in the field as one of the outstanding works of scholarship on the subject.

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New Heart, New Spirit: Biblical Humanism for Modern Israel
by Arie Lova Eliav / Varda Books

New Heart, New Spirit confronts the ethical and moral values of the Bible in the context of the critical situation that Israel and Zionism are facing. It is an outcry and a challenge to the xenophobic movements focused on “holy wars,” power, land, and blood.

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A Separate Republic
by David Joshua Malkiel / Varda Books

Based on the Libro Grande, which is included in this volume, this authoritative analysis of the Venetian Jewish community of the 17th century gives a snapshot of the political and social structure of the Jews of Venice as they related to the general population of the Venetian Republic of that period and to the ethnic,economic, and religious diversity within their own community.

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Studies in Israel Legislative Problems (Scripta Hierosolymitana, XXII)
by G. Tedeschi / Varda Books

An impressive collection of thoughts on major legal problems facing Israel, a country where the law is at a transitional stage and in the process of continous growth.

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Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer
by Gerald Friedlander (Translator and editor) / Varda Books

Kabbalistic midrashic work on Genesis, part of Exodus, and a few sentences of Numbers ascribed to R. Eliezer b. Hyrcanus.

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Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (Electronic Edition in 12 v. plus index, il)
by James Hastings / Varda Books

Electronic edition of the most comprehensive work in its class; includes articles on all religions, ethical systems and movements, religious beliefs and customs, philosophical ideas, moral practices, as well as related subjects in anthropology, mythology, folklore, relevant areas of biology, psychology, economics and sociology.

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Jewish History: An Essay in the Philosophy of History
by Simon M. Dubnow / Varda Books

This essay exhibits in a remarkably striking way the author's art of making “all things seem fresh and new, important and attractive.” The author attempts, for the first time, a psychologic characterization of Jewish history. He endeavors to demonstrate the inner connection between events, and develop the ideas that underlie them.

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Judaism and Christianity
by Leo Baek / Varda Books

A signally important work for anyone seriously concerned with Judaism or Christianity. It may prove to be a seminal work, a work that is interesting to both Jews and Christians. No doubt, it has faults, but a lack of nobility is not one of them.

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Religion and Zionism First Encounters
by Yosef Salmon / Varda Books
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The Third Pillar
by Soma Morgenstern / Varda Books

Through slow and difficult years of impassioned creative effort, the author has summed up, distilled, symbolized the incomparable tragedy of Jewish people into an essentially poetic form that is clear with a great intellectual clarity, as well as majestic with the grandeur of the theme he treats.

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Types of Jewish-Palestinian Piety
by Adolph Buchler / Varda Books

Original and interesting study of the meaning of piety amoung observant Jews of the late Second Temple period.

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La America: The Sephardic Experience in the United States
by Marc D. Angel / Varda Books

The story of the Jewish immigration to the United States of the Levantine Sephardim who entered the United States between 1899 and 1925.

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The Book of Pogroms (in Russian)
by Lidia Miliakova / Varda Books

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By Design: science search for God
by Larry Witham / Varda Books

The book introduces and summarizes two contemporary movements "science and religion dialogue" and "intelligent design". After reading By Design we understand how what was once a battleground between God and science can now become a meeting ground.

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Like a Reed: the Message of the Mezuza
by Yehuda Cahn / Varda Books

A thoughtful reminder of what is really important in life.

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A Catalogue of Fragments of Halakhah and Midrash from the Cairo Genizah
by Neil Danzig / The Jewish Theological Seminary Press

The core of this impressive volume is its catalog of Rabbinica that is accompanied by twelve facsimile pages of representative documents.

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Maimonides
by David Yellin / Varda Books

The first of a series of books dealing with “Jewish Worthies,” this volume presents the biography of, perhaps, the most famous Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages with special regard to the general history of the period at which he lived.

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Tosefta Ki-Fshutah, 12 vols.
by Saul Lieberman / The Jewish Theological Seminary Press

The most important work of the 20th century giant of Talmudic scholarship.

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Mishnayoth
by Rabbi Phillip Blackman / Varda Books
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History of the Jews, Vol. 4: From the Rise of the Kabbala (1270 C.E.) to the Permanent Settlement of the Marranos in Holland (1618 C.E.)
by Heinrich Graetz / Varda Books

A condensed reproduction of the first comprehensive attempt to write the history of the Jews as the history of a living people and from a Jewish point of view. The fourth volume covers the period from the rise of the Kabbala to the permanent settlement of the Marranos in Holland.

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MEDICINE AND MEDICAL ETHICS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN SPAIN
by Samuel Kottek / Varda Books
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History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Vol. 2: From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III. (1825–1894)
by Simon M. Dubnow / Varda Books

A History of the Jews in Russia and Poland from the pen of S. M. Dubnow (based upon a work in Russian which was especially prepared for JPS) needs neither justification nor recommendation. The work is divided into thee volumes. The second volume treats of the history of Russian Jewry from the death of Alexander I (1825) until the death of Alexander III (1894).

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Studies in the History of the Jews in Old Poland (Scripta Hierosolymitana, XXXVIII)
by Adam Teller / Varda Books

The twenty-one studies on the Jews of Old Poland here collected explore many hitherto uncharted aspects of Jewish life and experience in the Polish-Luthuanian Commonwealth.

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Come Under the Wings: A Midrash on Ruth
by Grace Goldin / Varda Books

Grace Goldin makes the character of Ruth more vivid in her poetry. Two classical idioms, that of the Jewish imagination, and that of English verse, are strikingly joined in the book.

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JPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot
by Michael Fishbane / Varda Books

The most recent addition to the JPS Bible Commentary series covers the varied selections from the Nevi'im that comprise the haftarot, chanted on Sabbaths and holy days in synagogues.

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The International Critical Commentary (ICC): Ecclesiastes
by George Aaron Barton / Varda Books

A straightforward, engaging commentary on the Book of Kohelet.

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by Adele Berlin / Varda Books
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Coat of Many Cultures: The Story of Joseph in Spanish Literature. 1200-1492
by Michael D. McGaha / Varda Books

The book presents seven works based on the biblical story. All of these works are unmistakably Spanish, though many of them are also undeniably Jewish or Muslim.

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Tractate Pesachim: Commentary and Study Guide
by Nachman Cohen / Varda Books

"Master a Mesikta Series" is probably the most advanced commentary and study guide to Talmud available in English.

By providing background material, outlining the contents of the Talmud and its commentaries, explaining the sequence of the Talmud,offering overviews of the topics discussed and clarifying the aggadic literature and its interaction with the legal discussions, this series enables the student to focus on the unity of the tractate, and serves as an aid in helping him in its master

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Treatise Ta`anit of the Babylonian Talmud: Critically Edited and Provided With A Translation and Notes
by Henry Malter / Varda Books

This book presents the first critical edition of the Talmudic text based on a minute collation of all the existing manuscripts and early editions of the Talmud itself, as well as of the Mishnah, Tosefta, the numerous halakic and haggadic Midrashim, the Yerushalmi, and the so-called Minor Tractates. The text is translated and elucidated for the benefit of a wider circle of readers, who are not in a position to study the original.

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Jewish Cooking Around the World: Gourmet and Holiday Recipes
by Hannah Goodman / Varda Books

The book presents a variety of recipes from foreign countries and recipes for the Sabbath and festivals, all complying with the Jewish dietary laws. Every recipe has been tested by the author.

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Thesaurus of the Medieaval Hebrew Poetry, in 4 volumes
by Israel Davidson / Varda Books

Lists 35,000 poems and prayers culled from printed and manuscript sources (many from Cairo Genizah) and their variations, i.e. almost every Hebrew poem and its variations composed after canonization of the Hebrew Bible until 18th c.e.... with listings of sacred poetry reaching into the 20th century.

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Jewish Post-Biblical History through Great Personalities: From Jochanan ben Zakkai Through Moses Mendelssohn
by Adele Bildersee / Varda Books

In this book the effort has been to select from the pages of post-Biblical Jewish history the outstanding personalities, to present the life and work of each in such a way as to illustrate the spirit of Judaism in his time, and, in doing this, to analyze and systematize the complex and abstract subject matter so that it may offer the fewest difficulties to the pupil's mind.

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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: The Book of Deuteronomy
by A. F. Kirkpatrick / Varda Books

The force and individuality of this Book; its consistency and distinctiveness from the other documents of the Pentateuch as well as its differences from much of the custom and practice both in early and later Israel, make it stand out.

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Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Book of Samuel
by S. R. Driver / Varda Books

Electronic edition of one of the most influential books ever written about the Bible; S.R. Driver's meticulously detailed reconstruction and analysis of Samuel has remained vital for over a century.

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Jesus of Nazareth
by Joseph Klausner / Varda Books

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The Jews Among the Greeks and Romans
by Max Radin / Varda Books

The book is a study of the contribution of the Jews to the modern civilization. The Romans and Greeks were originators of a great many elements of our civilization, but the Jews' impact was no less real or lasting. There was a time when Greek and Roman and Jew were in free contact. The results of this contact the author skillfully explores.

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Education in Israel
by Joseph Bentwich / Varda Books

Education in Israel gives a full account of the present school system in Israel and should be of interest to educationists of the modern world. For Israel is a microcosm of the modern world.

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A Grammar of Samaritan Hebrew
by Zeev Ben-Hayyim / Varda Books

The importance of the Samaritan pronunciation of Hebrew has gained wide acceptance as essential for reaching a correct understanding of the processes that affected the development of the Hebrew language in the late second temple period.

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Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew
by Eugene B. Borowitz / Varda Books

Renewing the Covenant presents the first systematic statement of theology since Abraham J. Heschel set forth his distinctive, comprehensive philosophy of Judaism. This unique book will long be discussed by thoughtful readers.

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Jews in the Hungarian Economy 1760-1945
by MICHAEL SILBER / Varda Books

In the sixteen essays in this volume, scholars from three continents explore dispassionately various facets of the Jewish presence in the Hungarian economy over a span of two centuries. (Two of the articles deal with Vienna which had quite a sizeable contingent of Hungarian Jews.) The topics range from "pure" economic history dealing with entrepreneurship and occupational structure, to related fields such as demography, urbanization and nutrition. Several studies discuss the interaction of both

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The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism
by Joshua Trachtenberg / Varda Books

The medieval conception of the Jew as devil – literally and figuratively – is the subject of this classic work, first issued in 1943. The full dimension of the diabolization of the Jew is presented through document, analysis, and illustration. It is a chilling study but an exceedingly important one.

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The Jews of Navarre in the Late Middle Ages. Hispania Judaica, v. 4
by Leroy Beatrice / Varda Books

Documented depiction of the economic activities of the Jews and their work at the service of the Crown in this Christian kingdom.

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A Treatise on the use of the Tenses in Hebrew
by S. R. Driver / Varda Books

If you work with the Hebrew verbal system, this is a book you *must* have read.

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Tales of Sendebar
by Morris Epstein / Varda Books

Translated from original Hebrew version of the SEVEN SAGES, this collection of fascinating stories--based on unpublished manuscripts--makes available the complete English translation of Mishle Sendebar, the Hebrew version of an enormously popular medieval romance which originated in the East and was subsequently transmitted westward.

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The Jews of Moslem Spain, Vol. 2/3
by Eliyahu Ashtor / Varda Books

The second and third volume of a monumental survey of the Jewish community in Spain under Moslem rule. (See first volume here) It offers the reader access to a difficult subject. The period is recreated in a narrative that flows with life and vitality...unmatched for scholarship and readability.

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Encyclopedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archæology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible (in 4 volumes)
by Thomas Kelly Cheyne / Varda Books

New electronic edition of classic four-volume Bible-focused encyclopedia supplied with sophisticated navigation, single-click lookup of original Hebrew text, and copy/paste functionality that comes with automatically generated bibliography.

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Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music
by Edwin Seroussi / Varda Books
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The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy
by Stephanie Guttman / Varda Books

"Stephanie Gutmann, who covered the second intifada, documents in her book, 'The Other War,' how Israel, in spite of — or maybe because of — its strength as a democracy nearly always loses the battle for soft and sympathetic minds." — The Washington Times

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