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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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by M. H. Segal / Varda Books
More than any other, this book makes the subject is accessible to scholars who are not fluent in modern Hebrew.
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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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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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by Yitzhak Baer / Varda Books
One of the century`s great classics of Jewish historiography. This first volume of the two-volume set takes the story down to the middle of the thirteen century in Castile.
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by Yitzhak Baer / Varda Books
One 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.
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by Cecil Roth / Varda Books
The tradegy and romance of the story of the secret Jews of the Spanish Peninsula is a lesson that every one must learn and always remember.
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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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by Mordechai Cogan / Varda Books
Thirty outstanding papers on Assyrian history and its connection and impact on Biblical Israel.
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by Leon Simon / Varda Books
Ahad Ha-Am's “spiritual Zionism” is still as capable, as it was fifty years ago, of giving inspiration and guidance to a large segment of the Jewry.
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by Joseph Naveh / Varda Books
The book contains the texts of all the legible amulets in Aramaic known today as well as 13 unpublished till now bowls. Their study allows us to peak into the religious feelings and practices of common people in the Talmudic period. The book contains a wealth of new material for the history of magic in the Middle East.
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by Michael Gold / Varda Books
The definitive work on Judaism`s approach to infertility, pregnancy loss, and adoption.
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by Joseph Naveh / Varda Books
The 201 of containing in the book Aramaic ostraca dating 361-311 BC are almost exclusive source for the study of the ethnic structure and the economic life for end of the Persian rule in the Land of Israel and the beginning of the Hellenistic period.
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by M. Avi-Yonah / Varda Books
The books deals with various aspects of art in ancient Palestine: conquest of the East by Hellenism, Leda sarcophagus, general problems of reconstruction of the past through archaelogy.
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by Chaim Rabin / Varda Books
Ten contributions from various perspectives on this unique find: from the departments of Bible, Archaeology, Hebrew Philology, Linguistics, and Comparative Religion, by E.Y. Kutscher, Yigael Yudin, N. Avigad, Jacob Light, M. H. Segal, Chaim Rabin, Shemaryahu Talmon, Z. Ben-Hayyim, and David Flusser.
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by Marcus Arkin / Varda Books
A survey of the far-ranging Jewish contribution to economic progress of the Western world.
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by David Horowitz / Varda Books
Provocative essays that analyze Noam Chomsky's intellectual and political career: coverage includes Chomsky's contribution to linguistics, his hatred of Israel, gloating reaction to the September 11 attacks, as well as his collaboration with Holocaust revisionists, apologies Pol Pot, and others.
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by Andre Chouraqui / Varda Books
This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of “the forgotten million” that once comprised the great Jewish communities of North Africa. It covers a period of more than two thousand years in the history of those communities.
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by Umberto Moshe David Cassuto; tr. Israel Abrahams / Varda Books
Two-volume set of U. Cassuto's Biblical and Ancient Oriental Texts essays.
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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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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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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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by Israel Abrahams / Varda Books
The twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the current era, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786. This book has been compiled with the definite aim of providing an elementary manual of Jewish literature both for home and school use.
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by Victor A. Keats / Varda Books
This book deals with the origins of chess from before 500 A.D. and its appearance in Jewish sources and literature until the middle of the 19th century.
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by Yehezkel Kaufmann / Varda Books
A great historian of Jewish religion analyzes the conflictual relationship between Christianity and Judaism.
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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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by Ephraim E. Urbach / Varda Books
This collection of articles in Jewish Studies has been authored by, what many consider, the most important scholar of the rabbinic life and literature in the post WWII period.
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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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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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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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by Curtis, E. L.; Madsen, A. A. / Varda Books
The 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.
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by Чарлз Шлакманн / Varda Books
Еврейская вера родилась в свете пылающего куста, который почти угас за долгую ночь Голокоста. “Знакомься: еврейский народ” содержит удивительную историю евреев, их веры и традиций, а также влияния их на формирование нашего сегодняшнего мира.
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by Karl Zinsmeister / Varda Books
Gripping, up-to-the-minute report on America's most urgent national struggle today, as seen through the eyes of the U.S. servicemen and Iraqis who are trying to make a new country out of the most dangerous place in the world; distinct contrast to the gloomy picture of America's presence in this war zone so often painted by the mainstream media.
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by Robert Alter / Varda Books
A carefully selected set of critical and biographical essays that offer analyses of a spectrum of poems, stories, historical and critical works by selected Jewish writers, who witnessed the presence of humanistic values in the most ghastly historical circumstances of the twentieth century.
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by Jacob Katz / Varda Books
A revealing look at the reciprocal relationship between the Halakha as an abstract system and the realities of the Jewish life.
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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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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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by Cecil Roth / Varda Books
The 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.
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by Jeffrey H. Tigay / Varda Books
The fifth and final JPS commentary on the last book of the Torah.
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by Umberto Moshe David Cassuto; tr. Israel Abrahams / Varda Books
Although originally published more then 50 years ago, this little Cassuto's book is still probably the best, most focused attack on Wellhausen's Documentary Hypothesis and a powerful defense of the integrity of the biblical text.
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by James A. Montgomery / Varda Books
The very detailed handling of the original languages of Daniel (Hebrew and Aramaic) and frequent references to scholarly works in Latin, French, and German make this the commentary for scholars.
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by S. R. Driver / Varda Books
Electronic edition of one of the author's finest achievements.
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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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by Joseph Naveh / Varda Books
A most enjoyable and informative book. . . an excellent introduction to epigraphy and paleography of ancient Semitic languages . . . contains a wealth of information compiled into a simple to understand format.
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by Naomi W. Cohen / Varda Books
This superbly documented study, enriched by anecdotes and illustrations, portrays the first genuine encounter of Jewish society with emancipation.
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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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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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by Rachel Adler / Varda Books
A pioneering work on what it means to "engender" Jewish tradition, that is, how women`s full inclusion can and must transform our understanding and practice of Jewish law, prayer, sexuality, and marriage. It challenges both mainstream Judaism and feminist dogma, and speaks across the movements as well as to Christian theologians and feminists.
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by Nachman Cohen / Varda Books
A facinated exploration of the tie-in between hallachic decision making process and politics through the analysis of the disputes of R. Yehoshua and R. Elazar haModi'in in Tractate Megillah.
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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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by Shlomo Avineri / Varda Books
With the demise of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, a number of questions regarding the conventional understanding of totalitarianism could now be viewed in the new light. The classical studies of totalitarianism were undertaken when Nazism and Fascism had been vanquished, while the Soviet system still existed: this created an asymmetry which could now be overcome. The ideological Cold War edge which sometimes accompanied debates about totalitarianism was similar
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by Adele Berlin / Varda Books
In this latest addition to the Jewish Publication Society's commentary series, the reader will further be reworded with many productive and original insights: in this particular case on the background of the feast of Purim.
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by Nahum M. Sarna / Varda Books
Masterly commentary on the second book of the Bible by eminent Jewish scholar.
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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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by George Aaron Barton / Varda Books
A straightforward, engaging commentary on the Book of Kohelet.
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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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by Loring W. Batten / Varda Books
A commentary on one of the most interesting for the modern reader books of the Bible.
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by James G. Frazer / Varda Books
Many 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.
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by James G. Frazer / Varda Books
Many 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. The first volume covers the folklore ranging from the creation of man to the heirship of Jacob.
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by James G. Frazer / Varda Books
Many 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. The second volume covers Jacob and the kidskins, the passage through the Red Sea, the judgment of Solomon, and other stories.
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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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by S. R. Driver / Varda Books
Collection of printed texts and MSS. by Jewish commentators on the 53rd Chapter of Isaiah, brought together by AD. Nubauer and translated with assistance of S.R.Driver.
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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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by E. Kautzsch / Varda Books
Interactive edition of one of the most important Biblical Hebrew grammar ever published in English.
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by Umberto Moshe David Cassuto; tr. Israel Abrahams / Varda Books
A major contribution to Ugaritic scholarship, The Goddess Anath--Cassuto's work on Canaanite Epics of the Patriarchal Age--is a classic authored by one of the greatest Bible scholars.
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by John Skinner / Varda Books
An electronic edition of Skinner's main work.
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by Luis Tejada / Varda Books
Description of the fate of the Conversos in the Kingdom of Jaén at the hands of the Inquisition Tribunal which operated there for 43 years, from 1483 until 1526.
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by Beinart Haim / Varda Books
This story is eloquently related on the basis of Inquisition files which depict the Conversos' deep yearning to their Jewish past and the ultimate sacrifice they were prepared to offer for their continued adherence to their ancestral faith.
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by Emily Solis-Cohen / Varda Books
There 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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by Raphael Mahler / Varda Books
Mahler'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.
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by JPS / Varda Books
This volume includes specimens which, either as complete texts or as extracts, are representative of the type of literature known as Ethical Wills. The testaments give an intimate insight into the personal religion of Jews and Jewish experience through many centuries.
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by William Chomsky / Varda Books
The extraordinary story of the Hebrew language is the subject of this book.
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by Varda Books / Varda Books
Multi-platform, electronic edition of masoretic text of the Holy Scriptures placed next to classic Jewish translation.
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by Varda Books / Varda Books
This is a Study Edition of the traditional Masoretic text placed next to the classic "word-for-word" Jewish translation by JPS; it features the most authoritative Hebrew text - based on the Leningrad Codex - complete with cantillation marks, vocalization and verse numbers.
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by Joseph Bentwich / Varda Books
This book is intended for those interested in the conflict of Judaism with the culture of the ancient world and its impact on the Jewish life of today.
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by F. Ε. König / Varda Books
This is the largest compilation of grammatical material for Hebrew Bible.
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by Frederic W. Madden / Varda Books
Madden's work constitutes ". . . a record of many rare or unique examples of Jewish art, preserving spontaneity and directness in our contact with the Jewish past."
Michael Avi-Yonah
Professor of Archaeology at Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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by Max Leopold Margolis / Varda Books
"... 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."
Robert Gordis
Encyclopaedia Judaica
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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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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 first volume contains the history of the Jews of Russia and Poland from its beginnings until 1825.
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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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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 third and concluding volume deals with the reign of Nicholas II., the last of the Romanovs, and also contains the bibliographical apparatus, the maps, the index, and other supplementary material.
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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 first volume covers the period from the entry of Israelite tribes into the land of Canaan to the settlement of the Judeans in Egypt.
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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 second volume covers the period from the reign of Hyrcanus to the completion of the Babylonian Talmud.
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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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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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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 fifth volume covers the period from the Chmielnicki Persecution of the Jews in Poland to the Present Time.
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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 sixth volume contains a memoir of the author by Dr. Philipp Bloch, a chronological table of Jewish history, an index to the whole work, and four maps.
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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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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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by Jose Luis Lacave / Varda Books
A careful examination of legal and historic aspects of 30 ketubots from various medieval Hispanic kingdoms; includes their comparison.
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by Angela Selke / Varda Books
Life and death in a crypto-Jewish community of Conversos of XVII century Majorca.
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by W. R. Harper / Varda Books
The author has taken up in connection with the first two of the immortal Twelve, many questions that concern just as closely the prophetic books. It is especially felt in the Introduction; in fact Harper's introduction to Amos and Hosea is really an introduction to Prophecy as such.
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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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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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by Assis Yom / Varda Books
A reconstruction of the Jewish life in a small community, on the basis of notary acts found in local archives.
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by Jose Hinojosa Montalvo / Varda Books
A comprehensive study of the Jews in this kingdom from the massacres of 1391 to the Expulsion.
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by DONATE Sebastia / Varda Books
The history of three Jewish Communities in Medieval Valencia: Castellón de la Plana, Burriana, Villarreal.
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by Beinart Haim / Varda Books
Based on documents published for the first time, this book reveals the life and surroundings of a community lulled into a false sense of security and endeavouring to build its life in peace while the war against Granada continues.
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by Elias Lipiner / Varda Books
The book contains more than 30 documents related to Portuguese Jewry in general and David Negro and Isaac Abravanel in particular.
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by Zvi Shilony / Varda Books
The 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.
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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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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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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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by GEORGE BUCHANAN Gray / Varda Books
In religion, as elsewhere, great personalities count first, and it is the privilege of a student of the Book of Isaiah to come face to face with one, if not two, such personalities...
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by Emil Schurer, D.D., M.A. / Varda Books
"The most valuable general modern work (on the subject) . . . "
Encyclopedia Britannica
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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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by David Flusser / Varda Books
A compelling biography of Jesus of Nazareth, written by eminent Jewish scholar of the Second Temple and Early Christianity.
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by Michael Brown / Varda Books
Michael Brown`s landmark study offers an unusual perspective on the origins of Canadian-Jewish assimilation in Anglo-Canada and the fear and insecurity that Canadian Jews experienced under the French Canadians.
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by Joseph Jacobs / Varda Books
Joseph Jacobs was a thinker and writer of unusual breadth and versatility. Among the subjects to which he gave his attention was the comparative distribution of Jewish ability, as the result of researches he had undertaken in association with Sir Francis Galton. The present work was the natural outcome of these studies.
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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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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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by Newman, Louis I. / Varda Books
This work is a study of a few typical “Reform Movements” or heresies in the history of Catholicism during the Middle Ages and of Protestantism during the Reformation era. It has been undertaken with a view to describing and analyzing the contributions by Jews and Judaism to the rise and development of these movements.
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by Israel Abrahams / Varda Books
A sweeping view of Jewish historical and cultural experience. Written in the end of the 19th century by an extremly astute historian and a storyteller, this volume will assist readers in better understanding the position of Jews in today's world as well.
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by Lee M. Friedman / The Jewish Publication Society
In Jewish Pioneers and Patriots, Lee M. Friedman has unearthed an amazing store of fresh information about the connections of the Jews with America from the times even before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth down to the first World War.
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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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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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by Jacob M. Landau / Varda Books
Select essays on Middle Eastern history dealing with Israel, Egypt and Turkey with a focus on politics and cultural relations of Jews, Arabs, and Turks.
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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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by David Rokeah / Varda Books
A fresh look at the propaganda wars between Jews and Pagans as well as Christians and Pagans during the first centuries of the common era.
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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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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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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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by David Flusser / Varda Books
A massive collection of scholarship of the author who has pioneered new understanding of the Jewish background of early Christianity.
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by Adolph Buchler / Varda Books
A broad survey of economic and political conditions in Judaea after Destruction of the Second Temple.
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by GEORGE BUCHANAN Gray / Varda Books
Electronic edition of the massive commentary on the Book of Job.
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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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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.