Jews and Words, Paperback

Reducere. The basic vocabulary of Jewish spiritual life, explained with humor, insight and relevance to guide you on a historical and spiritual journey throu...

Reducere. Being Jewish. What does it mean--today--and for the future? Listen in as Jews of all backgrounds reflect, argue, and imagine. When Wall Street Jour...

Reducere. "We can battle insensitivity, immorality and dishonesty in our lives individually and collectively as a people. We have a wonderful road map in the...

Reducere. For Christians, the Old Testament is mysterious and often unexplored. This book offers a broad, yet basic, study of Judaism for Christians who are ...

Reducere. Jews under Moroccan Skies tells the story of Jewish life in Morocco, describing in realistic detail how Jews and Muslims interweaved their lives in...

Reducere. In post-Holocaust philosophy, anti-Semitism has come to be seen as a paradigmatic political and ideological evil. Jews Out of the Question examines...

This graphic memoir of a lost homeland is a wordless narrative by an author homesick for a home she has never visited. It is illuminated by the wor...

As life for German Jews becomes increasingly perilous, Anna's parents put her on one of the last trains leaving for England. But actions speak loud...

Reducere. Award NameNational Jewish Book AwardAward categoryYiddishDescriptionAbout a thousand years ago, European Jews began speaking a language that was qu...

While acknowledging the ways in which persecution inevitably affects a community, this book deviates from most Jewish studies to survey the ways in...

Reducere. Purim in Pictures and Words retells the extraordinary story of the reversal of fortune and the miraculous survival of Jews of Persia in the days of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: V. V. TomekEditor: Mirek KatzlFor more than eight centuries, the Jews of Prague lived in the Prague ghetto. During that tim...

Hebrew is a very, very old language. It was spoken in ancient Israel many thousands of years ago, and has been kept alive for centuries by Jews and...

Demonstrates that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians imagined the future of Rome in strikingly different ways, revealing profound differences in t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeff A. BennerRecent archeological and linguistic evidence reveals that the Jews of the New Testament era spoke Hebrew, not...

Reducere. The Shema is the central prayer of the Jewish faith. Jews utter this single sentence, affirming God's unity as their final words before dying, as w...

Reducere. A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaintThroughout history, Jews aroun...

Reducere. The New Testament is a Jewish book and no part of it is more Jewish than the Gospel of Matthew-the story of how God fulfilled His word to Israel an...

Reducere. The Gospel of Matthew says some things about Jesus, and attributes words to Jesus, that are unique to this Gospel. If we pay careful attention to t...

Reducere. Jesus provided his disciples teachings for how to follow Torah, God's word; he told them parables to help them discern questions of ethics and of h...

Reducere. In recent history, men from a variety of backgrounds have come to the same conclusion: that the Bible is about Israel only. For example: In 1861, J...

Reducere. Examine the most difficult teachings of Jesus with Dr. Amy-Jill Levine. Jesus provided his disciples teachings for how to follow Torah, God's word;...

Reducere. As the first Jewish woman and Sephardic poet of importance in the United States, Emma Lazarus, struggled with recognition and acceptance among her ...

Reducere. In this gripping family tale, Catherine Ehrlich explores her Austrian grandparents' influential lives at the crossroads of German and Jewish nation...

Reducere. The five diarists in this book did not survive the war. But their words did. Each diary reveals one voice, one teenager coping with the impossible....

Reducere. On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afi...

Reducere. The pure and penetrating message of the Divine Feminine Wisdom can become a companion for your own spiritual journeyThe first of God's creations an...

Reducere. As this concluding volume of his moving and revealing memoirs begins, Elie Wiesel is forty years old, a writer of international repute. Determined ...

Reducere. Place yourself as a witness of the cross and determine what your own testimony will be! Experience Holy Friday from the perspective of those who wa...

Reducere. Place yourself as a witness of the cross and determine what your own testimony will be! Experience Holy Friday from the perspective of those who wa...

This book of thirteen conversations introduces us to the life of an exceptional person--theatre critic, Germanist, and long-time chair of the Open ...

Reducere. Now bigger, better, and with more guilt: a completely revised, updated, and expanded second edition (would it hurt to have a little more?) of Jewis...

Reducere. Stephen Nasser somehow dug deep within his soul to survive the brutal and inhumane treatment his captors inflicted on the Jews. He was the only one...

Reducere. THIS IS THE BOOK THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO READ. This book was previously withdrawn from its original publisher and is now being released in an author...

"Hebrew Igbo Republics" sets out to demonstrate that the Igbos of West Africa, the group known and described as the Jews of Africa, and Biafrans by...

Reducere. The Book of Questions, of which volumes IV, V, VI are together published here, is a meditative narrative of Jewish Experience, and, more generally,...