The writer has attempted in this volume to take up a few of the most characteristic points in Jewish doctrine and practice, and to explain some of the various phases through ...more

The aim of this book is to present some of the leading conceptions of the religion familiar since the Cristian era under the name Judaism. This is a great first book for ...more

With contributions from a dozen American and european scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post-World War II europe. Striking a balance between ...more

These 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. ...more

How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful...more

Chaim Potok's novel The Chosen, an admittedly autobiographical portrait of growing up Jewish in America, focuses on the challenge of living a religious life in a secular ...more

"The elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. ...more

Journeys Beyond the Pale is the first book to examine how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to ...more

A rich union of image and word, this striking book introduces english-speaking audiences to a full range of poetry by Asher Reich, one of Israel's most celebrated contemporary...more