THIS VOLUME FOCUSES ON THE PROBLEMS OF TEACHING CLASSICAL RABBINIC TEXTS.
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free ebook From Diplomacy to Resistance: A History of Jewish Palestine, 1939-1945The second volume of the work that is centered on the European Jewish community of the Middle Ages and early modern times. The author offers a comprehensive historical and sociological analysis of the Jewish communal evolution during the Emancipation era.
free ebook The Jewish Community: Its History and Structure to the American Revolution. Vol.II.Gershom Scholem opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion: a tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God. A history of the Kabbalah before the Zohar, this book analyzes the leading ideas of Jewish mysticism up to the period of its classical formulation.
free ebook Origins of the KabbalahMany traces of the old modes of life and thought survive in the form of folklore. A few such relics of ruder times, as they are preserved like fossils in the Old Testament, are illustrated and explained by the author in this book. In the third volume The Keepers of the Threshold, the Bird-Sanctuary, The Silent Widow, and other stories are discussed.
free ebook Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion and Law. Vol. IIIThere is a glamour and mystery about the Feast of Lights. Miss Solis-Cohen takes up the challenge of Hanukkah to the modern Jew and tries to explain it. The book will appeal to adults and to children, to those who seek knowledge on the holiday's origin and history.
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free ebook Christianity and Judaism: Two CovenantsOne of the century`s great classics of Jewish historiography. The second volume of Professor Baer`s monumental work tells the tragic story of the dissolution of the great Spanish Jewish community.
free ebook A History of the Jews in Christian Spain. Vol. 2The present volume, the fourth in the series Studies in Jewish Education, is dedicated to the subject of curriculum and the teaching of Hebrew.
free ebook Studies in Jewish Education IV: Curriculum and the teaching of HebrewThis 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.
free ebook The Jews of Yugoslavia: A Quest for CommunityMany 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 Consolaçam as tribulaçoens 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.
free ebook Consolation for the Tribulations of IsraelLong the standard English work on the subject, now is prepared to work interactively with Hebrew-English Tanakh: the Jewish Bible.
free ebook Introduction to the Literature of the Old TestamentThe 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.
free ebook Studies in the History of the Jews in Old Poland (Scripta Hierosolymitana, XXXVIII)A comprehensive study of the Jews in this kingdom from the massacres of 1391 to the Expulsion.
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free ebook Studies in Aggadah and Folk-Literature (Scripta Hierosolymitana, XXII)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.
free ebook MaimonidesThis 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.
free ebook The Jews of Egypt: From Ramses II to Emperor HadrianContinuing 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.
free ebook Sunset Possibilities and Other PoemsThe 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.
free ebook JPS Bible Commentary: HaftarotA 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 second volume covers the period from the reign of Hyrcanus to the completion of the Babylonian Talmud.
free ebook History of the Jews, Vol. 2: From the Reign of Hyrcanus (135 B.C.E.) to the Completion of the Babylonian Talmud (500 C.E.)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.
free ebook THE EVOLUTION OF EXODUS TRADITIONThis 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.
free ebook Studies in Jewish Education XIII: Modes of Educational TranslationAn interesting presentation of an extraordinary type of correspondence between communities and foremost Jewish authorities during the past fifteen hundred years by which social, economic and religious problems were discussed and solved.
free ebook The Responsa LiteratureIncredible medical breakthroughs of today, like genetic engineering, in-vitro fertilization, and cloning, as well as the ability and choice to prolong life force us as Jews and human beings to struggle with the dilemmas posed by modern medicine. How does one decide which treatments to accept as appropriate and which not? Jewish law and ethics, as Dr. Elliot Dorff points out, which stem from the ancient teachings of the Talmud, do not directly address these modern issues, but the Jewish tradition
free ebook Matters of Life and DeathA major work of interpretation, which served--according to Baruch Levin's own words--as “anchor and compass” for his Anchor Bible commentary on Numbers.
free ebook The International Critical Commentary (ICC): NUMBERSThe first deep and detailed research conducted on the subject of carrying out of the policies and enterprises of the JNF in the years prior to World War I.
free ebook Ideology and SettlementA careful examination of legal and historic aspects of 30 ketubots from various medieval Hispanic kingdoms; includes their comparison.
free ebook Medieval Ketubot from Sefarad, Hispania Judaica v. 11The 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.
free ebook The Birobidzhan Affair: A Yiddish Writer in SiberiaEach of the twelve articles in this volumes illustrates some state of the development of Hebrew narrative prose: from biblical literature though talmudic-midrashic and medieval eras till modern times.
free ebook Studies in Hebrew Narrative Art (Scripta Hierosolymitana XXVII)A thoughtful reminder of what is really important in life.
free ebook Like a Reed: the Message of the MezuzaThe noted historian Cecil Roth presents the first full-length biography of Dona Gracia in the English language. Banker, diplomat, philanthropist, defender of her people and promoter of its culture, she was revered by her sixteenth-century contemporaries and earned the highest esteem among Jewish historians in succeeding generations.
free ebook Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi"... a single volume (containing) the multitude of details of nearly 40 centuries of Jewish history (provided) with conciseness, clarity, and completeness. . . entire work is informed by a broad philosophic grasp of the subject, a rare balance and objectivity of treatment, and a warm love for the Jewish people and its heritage."
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free ebook The International Critical Commentary (ICC): Psalms (in 2 volumes)The volume offers a fresh analysis of a central problem of comparative Ugaritic Biblical scholarship: the relationship between biblical psalms and Canaanite literature.
free ebook Studies in Hebrew and Ugaritic PsalmsThe definitive work on Judaism`s approach to infertility, pregnancy loss, and adoption.
free ebook and Hannah wept: Infertility, Adoption, and the Jewish CoupleThe extraordinary story of the Hebrew language is the subject of this book.
free ebook Hebrew: The Eternal LanguageThe 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.
free ebook The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-SemitismTanna 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.
free ebook Tanna Debe Eliyyahu: The Lore of the School of ElijahElectronic edition of the massive commentary on the Book of Job.
free ebook The International Critical Commentary (ICC): Jobs (in 2 volumes)"An anti-Semitic contamination is now world-wide. This sad truth is brilliantly evoked in Gabriel Schoenfeld's important study. Necessary reading." --Elie Wiesel
free ebook The Return of Anti-SemitismThe gift of song, cherished and tended as it was by the Spanish Jews of the Middle Ages, reached its highest development in the poems of Jehudah Halevi. His love poems are made of dew and fire. But in his poems to Zion there is no such combination of a poet's ordinary artifices. It is his soul that is the instrument—and on his heartstrings is played the song of Israel's hope.
free ebook Selected Poems of Jehudah HaleviA survey of the far-ranging Jewish contribution to economic progress of the Western world.
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free ebook Lost Love: The Untold Story of Henrietta SzoldMahler's masterful sociological study is drawn from a variety of sources, including some Polish archival material that was later destroyed by the Nazis. This classic work, originally published in both Yiddish and Hebrew, is a prime example of movements that shaped the spiritual and cultural life of modern Jewry.
free ebook Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment: Their Confrontation in Galicia and Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyNew 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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free ebook Jewish Post-Biblical History through Great Personalities: From Jochanan ben Zakkai Through Moses MendelssohnViolence has always existed, and the Jews have been its victims for thousands of years in all parts of the world and in all periods of history. The book presents the fruits of the colloquium on Violence and Defense in Jewish History held in Tel-Aviv in 1974.
free ebook Violence and Defense in the Jewish ExperienceA 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 first volume covers the period from the entry of Israelite tribes into the land of Canaan to the settlement of the Judeans in Egypt.
free ebook History of the Jews, Vol. 1: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Simon the Maccabee (135 B.C.E.)Documented depiction of the economic activities of the Jews and their work at the service of the Crown in this Christian kingdom.
free ebook The Jews of Navarre in the Late Middle Ages. Hispania Judaica, v. 4A compelling biography of Jesus of Nazareth, written by eminent Jewish scholar of the Second Temple and Early Christianity.
free ebook JesusAn electronic edition of Skinner's main work.
free ebook The International Critical Commentary (ICC): GENESISThe 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.
free ebook The Jews Among the Greeks and RomansThe Shema has been described as the "central watchword" of Jewish faith. The book represents an extensive commentary on the words of the Shema, drawing upon the wide range of traditional sources and the author's own reflections.
free ebook The Shema: Spirituality and Law in JudaismThe classic work on the field. Not for beginners; for those interested in a more historical and critical study of Talmud and Midrash.
free ebook Introduction to the Talmud and MidrashThe author of this interesting work, has little sympathy with that subjective criticism which prescribes beforehand an author's scheme of composition and then regards all contrary to this scheme as interpolations or supplements.
free ebook The International Critical Commentary (ICC): ChroniclesA translation of eight of the most interesting narratives found in the Zohar. In addition, the book contains a comprehensive introduction, a glossary, notes, and a bibliography.
free ebook Mystic Tales from the ZoharJoseph Reimer uses his experience and talent as an ethnographer to bring to life the drama of one synagogue's struggle to make Jewish education work. As a result of his classroom observations Reimer comes away with important insights into what makes Jewish education succeed.
free ebook Succeeding at Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made It WorkThis 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.