Author: Sharon Strassfeld
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Logically arranged, lively, innovative, thoughtful, and provocative, this book reflects the attitudes of a growing number of Jews who are seeking to rediscover Judaism's meaning and significance in their own lives.
The Third Jewish Catalog
Author: Sharon Strassfeld
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Logically arranged, lively, innovative, thoughtful, and provocative, this book reflects the attitudes of a growing number of Jews who are seeking to rediscover Judaism's meaning and significance in their own lives.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Logically arranged, lively, innovative, thoughtful, and provocative, this book reflects the attitudes of a growing number of Jews who are seeking to rediscover Judaism's meaning and significance in their own lives.
The Jewish Catalog
Author: Richard Siegel
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The First Jewish Catalog is an exciting collection of far-ranging topics that should aid any Jew - whether steeped in the tradition or just discovering Judaism - to become personally involved in aspects of Jewish ritual life, customs, cooking, crafts, and creation. What makes The First Jewish Catalog different from any other Jewish reference book you have ever read is that in this book the emphasis is not only on knowledge or theory but on the pratical side of things as well. Frequently lighthearted, the material is presented with a love and honesty that make this book a joy to read.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The First Jewish Catalog is an exciting collection of far-ranging topics that should aid any Jew - whether steeped in the tradition or just discovering Judaism - to become personally involved in aspects of Jewish ritual life, customs, cooking, crafts, and creation. What makes The First Jewish Catalog different from any other Jewish reference book you have ever read is that in this book the emphasis is not only on knowledge or theory but on the pratical side of things as well. Frequently lighthearted, the material is presented with a love and honesty that make this book a joy to read.
A Book of Life
Author: Michael Strassfeld
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Jewish spiritual practices, with explanations based on Talmudic and Midrashic texts as well as Hasidic and mystical stories, includes a survey of daily prayers, Shabbat rituals, holidays, Torah study, Jewish meditation, and more.
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Jewish spiritual practices, with explanations based on Talmudic and Midrashic texts as well as Hasidic and mystical stories, includes a survey of daily prayers, Shabbat rituals, holidays, Torah study, Jewish meditation, and more.
The Third Jewish Catalog
Author: Sharon Strassfeld
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish way of life
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish way of life
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Celebrating the Jewish Year
Author: Paul Steinberg
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 082760842X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Offers prayers, sources, rituals, and stories to help understand and celebrate the Jewish holidays.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 082760842X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Offers prayers, sources, rituals, and stories to help understand and celebrate the Jewish holidays.
One Hundred Great Jewish Books
Author: Lawrence A. Hoffman
Publisher: Bluebridge
ISBN: 9781933346311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Over many centuries, Judaism has consistently demonstrated a particular fondness for books and literacy, and this guide allows readers to listen in on the Jewish conversation across many centuries?from the Hebrew Bible and the rabbinic masterpieces to the pressing subjects of the early 21st century. It introduces great works of biography, spirituality, theology, poetry, fiction, history, and political theory. With a special focus on modern American Jewish life and the two core events of contemporary Jewish history?the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel?this overview guides readers to books espousing virtually all types of historic and modern Judaic expression. Each of the chronologically arranged entries examines one title within its historical context, provides information about the author, and gives a clear and focused summary of its content.
Publisher: Bluebridge
ISBN: 9781933346311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Over many centuries, Judaism has consistently demonstrated a particular fondness for books and literacy, and this guide allows readers to listen in on the Jewish conversation across many centuries?from the Hebrew Bible and the rabbinic masterpieces to the pressing subjects of the early 21st century. It introduces great works of biography, spirituality, theology, poetry, fiction, history, and political theory. With a special focus on modern American Jewish life and the two core events of contemporary Jewish history?the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel?this overview guides readers to books espousing virtually all types of historic and modern Judaic expression. Each of the chronologically arranged entries examines one title within its historical context, provides information about the author, and gives a clear and focused summary of its content.
JPS: the Americanization of Jewish Culture, 1888-1988
Author: Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827618867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Jonathan Sarna's meticulously documented centennial history presents the personalities and the controversies, the struggles and the achievements behind a century of publishing by America's foremost publisher of Jewish books in English. Sarna's engaging blend of anecdote and analysis contextualizes the Jewish Publication Society within American Jewry's evolving social, political, and cultural history. He demonstrates that the society has been a major factor. Sarna recounts the inspired struggle of the Jewish Publication Society's founders, a group of genteel Philadelphia philanthropists including Cyrus Adler and Mayer Sulzberger, who believed fervently in the need to educate their immigrant coreligionists with Jewish books in the new vernacular. He also tells the story of Henrietta Szold, best known for her later achievements as the founder of Hadassah and Youth Aliyah. Szold worked doggedly for twenty-three years as the society's first editor until a shattered love for a JPS author became the catalyst that led her to Palestine and Zionist leadership. Here too are fascinating accounts of the long deliberations and intense work that produced the authoritative JPS Bible translations of 1917 and 1985, translations acceptable to all major branches of Judaism. Sarna also recounts the controversy surrounding the 1973 publication of The Jewish Catalog, a project developed by the bold JPS editor Chaim Potok. The Catalog, embodying the spirit of the Jewish counterculture, not only became the best-selling JPS book after the Bible, but it also showed that JPS could meet the challenge of a new generation as it moved toward its second century.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827618867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Jonathan Sarna's meticulously documented centennial history presents the personalities and the controversies, the struggles and the achievements behind a century of publishing by America's foremost publisher of Jewish books in English. Sarna's engaging blend of anecdote and analysis contextualizes the Jewish Publication Society within American Jewry's evolving social, political, and cultural history. He demonstrates that the society has been a major factor. Sarna recounts the inspired struggle of the Jewish Publication Society's founders, a group of genteel Philadelphia philanthropists including Cyrus Adler and Mayer Sulzberger, who believed fervently in the need to educate their immigrant coreligionists with Jewish books in the new vernacular. He also tells the story of Henrietta Szold, best known for her later achievements as the founder of Hadassah and Youth Aliyah. Szold worked doggedly for twenty-three years as the society's first editor until a shattered love for a JPS author became the catalyst that led her to Palestine and Zionist leadership. Here too are fascinating accounts of the long deliberations and intense work that produced the authoritative JPS Bible translations of 1917 and 1985, translations acceptable to all major branches of Judaism. Sarna also recounts the controversy surrounding the 1973 publication of The Jewish Catalog, a project developed by the bold JPS editor Chaim Potok. The Catalog, embodying the spirit of the Jewish counterculture, not only became the best-selling JPS book after the Bible, but it also showed that JPS could meet the challenge of a new generation as it moved toward its second century.
The Book of Our Heritage
Author: Eliyahu Ki Ṭov
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873067645
Category : Fasts and feasts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the Jewish year with great depth, sensitivity, and insight. Laws, customs and practices are all noted and explained, along with the words of our Sages in a wealth of Midrashic commentary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873067645
Category : Fasts and feasts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the Jewish year with great depth, sensitivity, and insight. Laws, customs and practices are all noted and explained, along with the words of our Sages in a wealth of Midrashic commentary.
Encyclopedia of Judaism
Author: Sara E. Karesh
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816069824
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
An illustrated A to Z reference containing over 800 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to the religion of Judaism.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816069824
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
An illustrated A to Z reference containing over 800 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to the religion of Judaism.
Seyder Tkhines
Author: Devra Kay
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827607733
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Seyder Tkhines, translated from its original Yiddish by noted tkhines scholar, Devra Kay, and centerpiece of this groundbreaking work, was a standard Yiddish prayer book for women. It first appeared in Amsterdam in 1648, and continued to be published for the next three generations, usually inside the Hebrew synagogue prayer book. A product of an age when mysticism pervaded mainstream Judaism, the Seyder Tkhines provided women with newly composed, alternative daily prayers that were more specific to their needs. Included in this volume is a unique Yiddish manuscript dating from the 17th century ? a collection of prayers written specifically for a rich, pregnant woman, which Kay discovered among the rare books of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. Now, for the first time, these prayers have been skillfully translated and brought to public view. In addition to her translations, Kay presents her own extensive commentary, providing a deeper understanding of the historic, religious, and cultural background of this period in Jewish history. This unparalleled book will have special appeal to those interested in the social, literary, and religious history of women, as well as the history of the Yiddish language and literature. The interest in these forgotten prayers and their significance to the lives of women has now been revived, and these tkhines are ready to be rediscovered by a modern readership.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827607733
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Seyder Tkhines, translated from its original Yiddish by noted tkhines scholar, Devra Kay, and centerpiece of this groundbreaking work, was a standard Yiddish prayer book for women. It first appeared in Amsterdam in 1648, and continued to be published for the next three generations, usually inside the Hebrew synagogue prayer book. A product of an age when mysticism pervaded mainstream Judaism, the Seyder Tkhines provided women with newly composed, alternative daily prayers that were more specific to their needs. Included in this volume is a unique Yiddish manuscript dating from the 17th century ? a collection of prayers written specifically for a rich, pregnant woman, which Kay discovered among the rare books of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. Now, for the first time, these prayers have been skillfully translated and brought to public view. In addition to her translations, Kay presents her own extensive commentary, providing a deeper understanding of the historic, religious, and cultural background of this period in Jewish history. This unparalleled book will have special appeal to those interested in the social, literary, and religious history of women, as well as the history of the Yiddish language and literature. The interest in these forgotten prayers and their significance to the lives of women has now been revived, and these tkhines are ready to be rediscovered by a modern readership.