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Book Synopsis Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology by : Solomon Schechter
Download or read book Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology written by Solomon Schechter and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contents of this book have grown out of a course of lectures delivered at various learned centre, and a series of essays published in the Jewis quarterly review. These essays began to appear in the year 1894.
Book Synopsis Solomon Schechter: A Bibliography by : Adolph S. Oko
Download or read book Solomon Schechter: A Bibliography written by Adolph S. Oko and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1938, this book presents a detailed record for the writings of the rabbi and scholar Solomon Schechter (1847-1915).
Author :Cambridge University Library Publisher :Cambridge University Press ISBN 13 :9780521816137 Total Pages :592 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (161 download)
Book Synopsis Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Volume 4, Taylor-Schechter Additional Series 32-225, with Addenda to Previous Volumes by : Cambridge University Library
Download or read book Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Volume 4, Taylor-Schechter Additional Series 32-225, with Addenda to Previous Volumes written by Cambridge University Library and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive catalogue of Hebrew Bible fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Additional Series, describing 14,679 items.
Book Synopsis The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by : Michael David Lukas
Download or read book The Last Watchman of Old Cairo written by Michael David Lukas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “wonderfully rich” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the author of the internationally bestselling The Oracle of Stamboul, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. “This book is a joy.”—Rabih Alameddine, author of the National Book Award finalist An Unnecessary Woman WINNER OF: THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S SOPHIE BRODY AWARD • THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • THE SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE • Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the BBC • Longlisted for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fiction Prize • A Penguin Random House International One World, One Book Selection • Honorable Mention for the Middle East Book Award Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the centuries-old history that binds the two sides of his family. From the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo, where generations of his family served as watchmen, to the lives of British twin sisters Agnes and Margaret, who in 1897 leave Cambridge on a mission to rescue sacred texts that have begun to disappear from the synagogue, this tightly woven multigenerational tale illuminates the tensions that have torn communities apart and the unlikely forces that attempt to bridge that divide. Moving and richly textured, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is a poignant portrait of the intricate relationship between fathers and sons, and an unforgettable testament to the stories we inherit and the places we are from. Praise for The Last Watchman of Old Cairo “A beautiful, richly textured novel, ambitious and delicately crafted, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is both a coming-of-age story and a family history, a wide-ranging book about fathers and sons, religion, magic, love, and the essence of storytelling. This book is a joy.”—Rabih Alameddine, author of the National Book Award finalist An Unnecessary Woman “Lyrical, compassionate and illuminating.”—BBC “Michael David Lukas has given us an elegiac novel of Cairo—Old Cairo and modern Cairo. Lukas’s greatest flair is in capturing the essence of that beautiful, haunted, shabby, beleaguered yet still utterly sublime Middle Eastern city.”—Lucette Lagnado, author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit and The Arrogant Years “Brilliant.”—The Jerusalem Post
Download or read book Sacred Trash written by Adina Hoffman and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2012 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S SOPHIE BRODY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN JEWISH LITERATURE Sacred Trash tells the remarkable story of the Cairo Geniza—a synagogue repository for worn-out texts that turned out to contain the most vital cache of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered. This tale of buried communal treasure weaves together unforgettable portraits of Solomon Schechter and the other modern heroes responsible for the collection’s rescue with explorations of the medieval documents themselves—letters and poems, wills and marriage contracts, Bibles, money orders, fiery dissenting religious tracts, fashion-conscious trousseaux lists, prescriptions, petitions, and mysterious magical charms. Presenting a panoramic view of almost a thousand years of vibrant Mediterranean Judaism, Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole bring contemporary readers into the heart of this little-known trove, whose contents have rightly been dubbed “the Living Sea Scrolls.” Part biography, part meditation on the supreme value the Jewish people has long placed in the written word, Sacred Trash is above all a gripping tale of adventure and redemption. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
Book Synopsis The Birth of Conservative Judaism by : Michael R. Cohen
Download or read book The Birth of Conservative Judaism written by Michael R. Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon Schechter (1847-1915), the charismatic leader of New York's Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), came to America in 1902 intent on revitalizing traditional Judaism. While he advocated a return to traditional practices, Schechter articulated no clear position on divisive issues, instead preferring to focus on similarities that could unite American Jewry under a broad message. Michael R. Cohen demonstrates how Schechter, unable to implement his vision on his own, turned to his disciples, rabbinical students and alumni of JTS, to shape his movement. By midcentury, Conservative Judaism had become the largest American Jewish grouping in the United States, guided by Schechter's disciples and their continuing efforts to embrace diversity while eschewing divisive debates. Yet Conservative Judaism's fluid boundaries also proved problematic for the movement, frustrating many rabbis who wanted a single platform to define their beliefs. Cohen demonstrates how a legacy of tension between diversity and boundaries now lies at the heart of Conservative Judaism's modern struggle for relevance. His analysis explicates four key claims: that Conservative Judaism's clergy, not its laity or Seminary, created and shaped the movement; that diversity was--and still is--a crucial component of the success and failure of new American religions; that the Conservative movement's contemporary struggle for self-definition is tied to its origins; and that the porous boundaries between Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism reflect the complexity of the American Jewish landscape--a fact that Schechter and his disciples keenly understood. Rectifying misconceptions in previous accounts of Conservative Judaism's emergence, Cohen's study enables a fresh encounter with a unique religious phenomenon.
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Download or read book The Reform Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacred Treasure-The Cairo Genizah by : Rabbi Mark S. Glickman
Download or read book Sacred Treasure-The Cairo Genizah written by Rabbi Mark S. Glickman and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code in an old Egyptian synagogue--the amazing story of one of the most important discoveries in modern religious scholarship. In 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter of Cambridge University stepped into the attic of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, and there found the largest treasure trove of medieval and early manuscripts ever discovered. He had entered the synagogue's genizah--its repository for damaged and destroyed Jewish texts--which held nearly 300,000 individual documents, many of which were over 1,000 years old. Considered among the most important discoveries in modern religious history, its contents contained early copies of some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, early manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, and other sacred literature. The importance of the genizah's contents rivals that of the Rosetta Stone, and by virtue of its sheer mass alone, it will continue to command our attention indefinitely. This is the first accessible, comprehensive account of this astounding discovery. It will delight you with its fascinating adventure story--why this enormous collection was amassed, how it was discovered and the many lessons to be found in its contents. And it will show you how Schechter's find, though still being "unpacked" today, forever transformed our knowledge of the Jewish past, Muslim history and much more.
Download or read book East & West written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jewish Continuity in America by : Abraham J. Karp
Download or read book Jewish Continuity in America written by Abraham J. Karp and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an eternal people and fear that their generation may be the last. In the United States, the Jewish community has faced to a heightened degree the enduring question of identity and assimilation: How does the Jewish community in this free, open, pluralistic society discover or create factors-both ideological and existential-that make group survival beneficial to the larger society and rewarding to the individual Jew? Abraham J. Karp's Jewish Continuity in America focuses on the three major sources of American Judaism's continuing vitality: the synagogue, the rabbinate, and Jewish religious pluralism. Particularly illuminating is Karp's examination of the coexistence and unity-in-diversity of American religious Jewry's three divisions-Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative-and of how this Jewish religious pluralism fits into the larger picture of American religious pluralism. Informing the larger enterprise through sharp and full delineation of discrete endeavors, the essays collected in Jewish Continuity in America-some already acknowledged as classics, some appearing here for the first time-describe creative individual and communal responses to the challenge of Jewish survival. As the title suggests, this book argues that continuity in a free and open society demands a high order of creativity, a creativity that, to be viable, must be anchored in institutions wholly pledged to continuity.
Book Synopsis Breaking the Tablets by : David Weiss Halivni
Download or read book Breaking the Tablets written by David Weiss Halivni and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible, after the Shoah, to declare one's faith in the God of Israel? Breaking the Tablets is David Weiss Halivni's eloquent and insightful response to this question. Halivni, Auschwitz survivor and one of the greatest Talmudic scholars of the past century, declares that at this time of God's near absence, Jews can still observe the words of the Torah and pray for God to come near again. Jews must continue to study the classic texts of rabbinic Judaism but now with greater humility, recognizing that even the greatest religious leaders and thinkers interpret these texts only as mere people, prone to human error. Breaking the Tablets is important reading for anyone who feels burdened by the question of how it is possible to believe in God and practice their religion.
Book Synopsis Studies in Judaism by : Solomon Schechter
Download or read book Studies in Judaism written by Solomon Schechter and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sacred Books of Judaism by : Louis Ginzberg
Download or read book The Sacred Books of Judaism written by Louis Ginzberg and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 9775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited collection contains the essential books of the Jewish faith, the most sacred text of Judaism, history books, as well as philosophical and theological writings concerning Jewish faith. Contents: Religious Texts: "Tanakh" – The Hebrew Bible "Talmud" – The Central Text of Rabbinic Judaism "Torah – Bilingual (English/Hebrew)" – Five Books of Moses "Tales and Maxims from the Midrash" – Biblical exegesis by ancient Judaic authorities "The Kabbalah Unveiled" – Translations and commentaries of the Books of Zohar "The Sepher Ha-Zohar" – Zohar, or Splendor is the most important text of Kabbalah. "Siddur – The Standard Prayer Book" – The Authorized Daily Prayer Book of the United Hebrew Congregations "The Union Haggadah" – Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. History: The Jewish Wars (Flavius Josephus) Antiquities of the Jews (Flavius Josephus) History of the Jews (Heinrich Graetz) The Legends of the Jews (Louis Ginzberg) Philosophical Works: Kitab al Khazari (Kuzari) (Judah Halevi) The Guide for the Perplexed (Moses Maimonides) Ancient Jewish Proverbs (Abraham Cohen)
Book Synopsis The Gate of Heaven by : Wilfred Shuchat
Download or read book The Gate of Heaven written by Wilfred Shuchat and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He describes how the struggle for Jewish educational rights ultimately produced a real public school system in Quebec as well as other unsung achievements of Montreal Jewry - the Board of Jewish Ministers, the de Sola Club, the Religious Welfare Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Pavilion at Expo '67, and the Jewish Introduction Service."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Judaism: Sacred Texts, History, Theology & Philosophy by : Louis Ginzberg
Download or read book Judaism: Sacred Texts, History, Theology & Philosophy written by Louis Ginzberg and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 9783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judaism: Sacred Texts, History, Theology & Philosophy offers an unparalleled journey into the rich tapestry of Jewish literary tradition, philosophy, and history. By bringing together an array of texts ranging from theological treatises, philosophical inquiries, to historical narratives, this collection showcases the diverse methodologies and literary styles that have shaped Jewish thought from antiquity to the modern era. Each piece, carefully curated, highlights the evolution of Jewish wisdom, with texts that have stood at the heart of dialogue, debate, and devotion within Jewish culture. The anthology stands out not only for its breadth but also for including some of the most seminal works that have profoundly influenced Jewish life and thought. The contributing authors and editors, luminaries such as Louis Ginzberg, Heinrich Graetz, Judah Halevi, and Moses Maimonides among others, bring an unparalleled depth of knowledge and insight to the collection. These figures, each a titan in their own right, represent pivotal moments and movements within Jewish intellectual history - from the medieval synthesis of Judaic thought with Greek philosophy to the critical historical scholarship of the 19th century. Their collective works within this anthology provide a unique lens through which the vibrancy and dynamism of Jewish intellectual traditions are articulated, reflecting the rich interplay between continuity and innovation that characterizes Jewish thought. This anthology is recommended for anyone seeking to immerse themselves in the depth and diversity of Jewish scholarship. It offers readers a unique opportunity to explore seminal texts across various genres, underscoring the enduring relevance of these works. 'Judaism: Sacred Texts, History, Theology & Philosophy' is not merely an academic endeavor; it is an invitation to engage with the texts that have shaped Jewish consciousness across millennia. As readers traverse through this curated landscape of Jewish wisdom, they will find themselves participating in a historical dialogue that enriches understanding and fosters an appreciation for the complexity and beauty of Jewish intellectual heritage.
Book Synopsis Race and Race Relations by : Robert Elliott Speer
Download or read book Race and Race Relations written by Robert Elliott Speer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
