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The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century

By: Alan M. Dershowitz

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Touchstone: September 1998

Seller ID: 362805

ISBN: 0684848988

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Explores the meaning of Jewishness in light of the increasing assimilation of America's Jews and suggests ways to preserve Jewish identity.
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Sketches of Jewish Social Life

By: Alfred Edersheim

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co: June 1976

Seller ID: 360728

ISBN: 0802881327

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sketches of Jewish Social Life

By: Alfred Edersheim

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Hendrickson Pub: November 1994

Seller ID: 367009

ISBN: 156563005X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

For the first time since it originally appeared, this classic work has been newly typeset in an easy-to-read modern typeface, making reading, studying, consulting easier than ever before.

The most relevant citations of Scripture, rabbinic sources, and the works of Philo and Josephus are supplied to complement Edersheim's masterful assessment of the writings of Jesus' day. This makes bland references come alive, in many cases shedding invaluable light on difficult passages or capturing the deep devotion. Edersheim brings to the task of understanding the world of Jesus and his disciples.

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Sketches of Jewish Social Life

By: Alfred Edersheim

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Hendrickson Pub: November 1994

Seller ID: 368062

ISBN: 156563005X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For the first time since it originally appeared, this classic work has been newly typeset in an easy-to-read modern typeface, making reading, studying, consulting easier than ever before.

The...
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New Jewish Wedding, Revised

By: Anita Diamant

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Scribner: March 2001

Seller ID: 266044

ISBN: 0743202554

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Definitive, Completely Up-to-Date Guide to Planning a Jewish Wedding
Since its original publication in 1986, The New Jewish Wedding has become required reading, assigned to engaged couples by Conservative, Reform, and Reconstruc-tionist rabbis alike. In this new revision, Anita Diamant, one of the most respected writers of guides to Jewish life, continues to offer step-by-step guidance to planning the ceremony and the party that follows -- from hiring a rabbi and wording the invitation to organizing a processional and hiring a caterer. She also includes:

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The Jews in the Greek Age

By: Bickerman, Elias

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press: September 1990

Seller ID: 302874

ISBN: 0674474910

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of our century's greatest authorities on the ancient world gives us here a vivid account of the Jewish people from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E. to the revolt of the Maccabees. It is a rich story of Jewish social, economic, and intellectual life and of the relations between the Jewish community and the Hellenistic rulers and colonizers of Palestine--a historical narrative told with consummate skill.Bickerman portrays Jewish life in the context of a broader picture of the Near East and traces the interaction between the Jewish and Greek worlds throughout ...
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The Jews in the Greek Age

By: Bickerman, Elias

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press: September 1990

Seller ID: 390659

ISBN: 0674474910

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

WANDERINGS

By: Chaim Potok

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Fawcett: February 1983

Seller ID: 327708

ISBN: 0449203662

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabes Reader

By: Edmond Jabes, Richard Stamelman

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press: December 1991

Seller ID: 210105

ISBN: 0819562521

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"To take the wrong door means indeed to go against the order that presided over the plan of the house, over the layout of the rooms, over the beauty and rationality of the whole. But what discoveries are made possible for the visitor The new path permits him to see what no one other than himself could have perceived from that angle. All the more so because I am not sure that one can enter a written work without having forced one's own way in first." - from In Place of a Foreword
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Middle Judaism: Jewish Thought, 300 B.C.E. to 200 C.E.

By: Gabriele Boccaccini

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Fortress Press: September 1991

Seller ID: 302852

ISBN: 0800624939

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Celebrate! Stories of the Jewish Holidays

By: Gilda Berger

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Scholastic: September 1998

Seller ID: 325835

ISBN: 0590935038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This sparkling collection of stories, recipes, crafts, and commentary introduces readers to the eight major Jewish holidays. Each story is accompanied by three sections: What We Celebrate, How We Celebrate, and Crafts and Food.
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The Jews of Ancient Rome

By: Harry J. Leon

Price: $17.95

Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America: January 1960

Seller ID: 302818

ISBN: B000GWLFGU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Heritage Affirmed, the Jewish Federation Movement in America

By: Harry L. Lurie

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Jewish Publication Society: January 1961

Seller ID: 279480

ISBN: B000ONT6UI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: A Parallel History of Their Origins and Early Development

By: Hershel Shanks

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Biblical Archaeology Society: January 1992

Seller ID: 302884

ISBN: 1880317087

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

World of Our Fathers

By: Irving Howe

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Schocken: January 1990

Seller ID: 273426

ISBN: 080520928X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages

By: Jacob Katz

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Schocken: February 1994

Seller ID: 100472

ISBN: 0805209964

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A study of Jewish life in the Middle Ages shows how the European Jews gradually emerged from a socially segregated society.
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Understanding Seeking Faith: Essays on the Case of Judaism, Vol. I: Debates on Method, Reports of Results (Neusner Titles In Brown Judaic Studies)

By: Jacob Neusner

Price: $9.95

Publisher: University Of South Florida: January 1986

Seller ID: 128926

ISBN: 1555400531

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Rabbinic Literature: An Essential Guide (Abingdon Essential Guides)

By: Jacob Neusner

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Abingdon Press: March 2005

Seller ID: 375490

ISBN: 0687351936

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Rabbinic literature is a complex and interwoven body of texts whose importance is extensive: it is, of course, central to studying Judaism; its texts are valuable for broad religious study and are crucial for understanding the background of early Christianity; and the history of biblical interpretation inevitably involves this quite immense and varied set of writings.

There is no scholar more highly regarded as an authority on Rabbinic literature and Judaism than Jacob Neusner. And there is no educator better suited to explaining it in clear and concise terms, laying out the list of ...
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