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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism

Sachs Mahzor Rosh Hashanah (Hardcover): Sachs Mahzor Rosh Hashanah (Hardcover)
R634 R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Where the Heavens Kiss the Earth - Mystical Insights for Personal Growth (Paperback): Rabbi Karmi Ingber Where the Heavens Kiss the Earth - Mystical Insights for Personal Growth (Paperback)
Rabbi Karmi Ingber
R404 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R66 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bad Jews - A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities (Hardcover): Emily Tamkin Bad Jews - A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities (Hardcover)
Emily Tamkin
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A lively, thoughtful history of America's Jews, exploring their complex relationships with national culture, identity, and politics-and each other. You can be called a Bad Jew-by the community or even yourself-if you don't keep kosher, don't send your children to Hebrew school, or enjoy Christmas music; if your partner isn't Jewish, or you don't call your mother enough. But today, amid fears of rising antisemitism, what makes a Good or Bad Jew is a particularly fraught question. There is no answer, argues Emily Tamkin. Several million now identify as American Jews; but they don't all identify with one another. American Jewish history, like all Jewish history, has been about transformation-and full of discussions, debates and hand-wringing over who is Jewish, how to be Jewish, and what it means to be Jewish. Bad Jews is a rich, absorbing reflection on 100 years of American Jewish identities and arguments. Tamkin's fascinating, diverse interviews explore the complex story of American Jewishness, and its evolving, conflicting positions, from assimilation, race, and social justice; to politics, Zionism, and Israel. She pinpoints the one truth about Jewish identity: It's always changing.

Qumran in and around the Bible - A new perspective on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paperback, Reissue): Joan Annandale-Potgieter Qumran in and around the Bible - A new perspective on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paperback, Reissue)
Joan Annandale-Potgieter
R145 R134 Discovery Miles 1 340 Save R11 (8%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

In this publication new light is shed on the Qumran community, its organisational structure, its ultra conservative way of life, and how its leaders interpreted the books of the Old Testament by compiling their own commentaries. Emphasis is also placed on facilitating an understanding of references in the Gospels whilst providing an insight into a community that existed parallel to the New Testament community, and to which some of Jesus' followers could have belonged.

Qumran in en om die Bybel - 'n Nuwe blik op die Dooieseerolle (Afrikaans, Paperback, Reissue): Joan Annandale-Potgieter Qumran in en om die Bybel - 'n Nuwe blik op die Dooieseerolle (Afrikaans, Paperback, Reissue)
Joan Annandale-Potgieter
R145 R134 Discovery Miles 1 340 Save R11 (8%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

In hierdie publikasie word nuwe lig gewerp op die Qumran-gemeenskap, die struktuur waarin hulle georganiseer was en hul ultrakonserwatiewe leefwyse. Die wyse waarop hul leiers die boeke van die Ou Testament geinterpreteer het, blyk uit die kommentare wat hulle geskryf het. Hierdie publikasie help die leser om verwysings in die evangelies beter te begryp en bied insig in 'n gemeenskap wat in dieselfde tyd as die Nuwe-Testamentiese gemeenskap geleef het en waaraan sommige van Jesus se volgelinge moontlik behoort het.

Bodies and Souls - The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas (Paperback, Annotated... Bodies and Souls - The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Isabel Vincent
R401 R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Save R66 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the second half of the nineteenth century, several thousand impoverished young Jewish women from Eastern Europe were forced into prostitution in the frontier colonies of Latin America, South Africa, India, and parts of the United States by the Zwi Migdal, a notorious criminal gang of Jewish mobsters.

Isabel Vincent, acclaimed author of "Hitler's Silent Partners," tells the remarkable true story of three such women--Sophia Chamys, Rachel Liberman, and Rebecca Freedman--who, like so many others, were desperate to escape a hopeless future in Europe's teeming urban ghettos and rural shtetls. "Bodies and Souls" is a shocking and spellbinding account of a monumental betrayal that brings to light a dark and shameful hitherto untold chapter in Jewish history--brilliantly chronicling the heartbreaking plight of women rejected by a society that deemed them impure and detailing their extraordinary struggles to live with dignity in a community of their own creation.

My Jesus Year - A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith (Paperback): Benyamin Cohen My Jesus Year - A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith (Paperback)
Benyamin Cohen
R389 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R68 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One day a Georgia-born son of an Orthodox rabbi discovers that his enthusiasm for Judaism is flagging. He observes the Sabbath, he goes to synagogue, and he even flies to New York on weekends for a series of "speed dates" with nice, eligible Jewish girls. But, something is missing. Looking out of his window and across the street at one of the hundreds of churches in Atlanta, he asks, "What would it be like to be a Christian?"

So begins Benyamin Cohen's hilarious journey that is "My Jesus Year"--part memoir, part spiritual quest, and part anthropologist's mission. Among Cohen's many adventures (and misadventures), he finds himself in some rather unlikely places: jumping into the mosh-pit at a Christian rock concert, seeing his face projected on the giant JumboTron of an African-American megachurch, visiting a potential convert with two young Mormon missionaries, attending a Christian "professional wrestling" match, and waking up early for a sunrise Easter service on top of Stone Mountain--a Confederate memorial and former base of operations for the KKK.

During his year-long exploration, Cohen sees the best and the worst of Christianity-- #8212;from megachurches to storefront churches; from crass commercialization of religion to the simple, moving faith of the humble believer; from the profound to the profane to the just plain laughable. Throughout, he keeps an open heart and mind, a good sense of humor, and takes what he learns from Christianity to reflect on his own faith and relationship to God. By year's end, to Cohen's surprise, his search for universal answers and truths in the Bible Belt actually make him a better Jew.

What is a Jew? (Paperback, 6th edition): Morris N. Kertzer What is a Jew? (Paperback, 6th edition)
Morris N. Kertzer; Revised by Lawrence A. Hofman
R502 R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Enoch (Hardcover): Enoch The Book of Enoch (Hardcover)
Enoch; Contributions by Thomas R. Horn
R512 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
King of the Jews - The Greatest Mob Story Never Told (Paperback): Nick Tosches King of the Jews - The Greatest Mob Story Never Told (Paperback)
Nick Tosches
R474 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in "The Great Gatsby" and Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls." It was rumored he masterminded the 1919 World Series fix. He was Mr. Broadway, a king of corruption holding court from his private booth at Lindy's Restaurant.

In this lively, sprawling biography, the inimitable Nick Tosches -- "one of the greatest living American writers" ("Dallas Observer") -- examines the myth and extraordinary legacy of Arnold Rothstein. It is an elegy to old New York that places an iconic, larger-than-life criminal kingpin firmly at the center of nothing less than the history of the entire Western world.

Judaism's Life-Changing Ideas - A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Hardcover): Jonathan Sacks Judaism's Life-Changing Ideas - A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Hardcover)
Jonathan Sacks
R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Match Made in Heaven - American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful... A Match Made in Heaven - American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance (Paperback)
Zev Chafets
R360 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R63 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the course of an extraordinary year, Zev Chafets--former New York "Daily News" columnist and onetime director of the Israeli government press office--traveled the world to explore the improbable confluence of Jews and evangelicals. He spent quality time with Jerry Falwell, visited Jewish cadets at West Point, attended the world's biggest Christian retail show, embarked on a road trip with the rabbi with the largest gentile following since Jesus, journeyed to the Holy Land with a band of repentant Christian pilgrims, and broke bread with George W. Bush and five hundred fellow Jewish Republicans.

"A Match Made in Heaven" is the penetrating, engaging, and often hilarious narrative of Chafets's determined quest to get to the root of a very serious question: Why do evangelicals support Israel so strongly? Equal parts history, comedy, travelogue, and political tract, it is a smart and adventurous odyssey along a rapidly changing religious and political border.

Finding Messiah - A Journey into the Jewishness of the Gospel (Paperback): Jennifer M. Rosner, Richard J Mouw Finding Messiah - A Journey into the Jewishness of the Gospel (Paperback)
Jennifer M. Rosner, Richard J Mouw
R295 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R52 (18%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Jesus was Jewish, and his Jewish identity informed every aspect of his work, words, and witness. He came as the Messiah of Israel, God's covenant people, and he spoke the language of God's faithfulness to this people. So why does it seem that Judaism has little to do with our Christian discipleship today? Jennifer Rosner, a scholar of Jewish-Christian relations, takes us on a personal and corporate journey into the Jewish roots of Christian faith and practice. Understanding Judaism-and the way in which Judaism and Christianity became separate religions-is essential for a rich and holistic Christian identity. As a follower of Jesus who was raised in a Jewish home and who continues to live a Jewish life, Rosner has seen firsthand how a Christian faith can become impoverished when divorced from its Jewish roots. Finding Messiah follows Rosner's own journey in rediscovering the role of Judaism and God's covenant with Israel in Christian life and practice. When we begin to understand Christianity's indelible relationship to Judaism, key aspects of the Christian faith come alive and the wonder of the gospel becomes clear in new and powerful ways. Jesus' Judaism provides the foundation for the church that is built upon his name. Rediscover the Jewish Jesus, and in so doing, experience a deeper and richer faith than ever before.

Judaism on Trial - Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages (Paperback, New Ed): Hyam Maccoby Judaism on Trial - Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages (Paperback, New Ed)
Hyam Maccoby
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hyam Maccoby's now classic study focuses on the major Jewish-Christian disputations of medieval Europe: those of Paris (1240), Barcelona (1263), and Tortosa (1413-14). It examines the content of these theological confrontations with a sense of present-day relevance, while also discussing the use made of scriptural proof-texts. Part I provides a general thematic consideration of the three disputations and their social and historical background. Part II is a complete translation of the account of the Barcelona Disputation written by Nahmanides, one of the greatest figures in the history of Jewish learning, and was Jewish spokesman at the disputation. Part III contains Jewish and Christian accounts of the Paris and Tortosa disputations. A new introduction reviews the relevant literature that has been published since the original edition appeared.

Jewish Proverbs for the Young at Heart - Large Format Book for People with Alzheimer's/Dementia (Paperback): Laurette Klier Jewish Proverbs for the Young at Heart - Large Format Book for People with Alzheimer's/Dementia (Paperback)
Laurette Klier
R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Franci's War - The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust (Hardcover): Franci Rabinek Epstein Franci's War - The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Franci Rabinek Epstein 1
R462 R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live? 'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir' Daily Express 'A story that needs to be heard' 5***** Reader Review Entering Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp, Franci was expected to die. She refused. In the summer of 1942, twenty-two-year-old Franci Rabinek - designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws - arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, to the slave labour camps in Hamburg, and finally to Bergen Belsen. Franci, a spirited and glamorous young woman, was known among her fellow inmates as the Prague dress designer. Having endured the transportation of her parents, she never forgot her mother's parting words: 'Your only duty to us is to stay alive'. During an Auschwitz selection, Franci would spontaneously lie to Nazi officer Dr Josef Mengele, and claim to be an electrician. A split-second decision that would go on to endanger - and save - her life. Unpublished for 50 years, Franci's War is an astonishing account of one woman's attempt to survive. Heartbreaking and candid, Franci finds the light in her darkest years and the horrors she faces instill in her, strength and resilience to survive and to live again. She gives a voice to the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends. Her testimony sheds new light on the alliances, love affairs, and sexual barter that took place during the Holocaust, offering a compelling insight into the resilience and courage of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation. Above all, Franci's War asks us to explore what it takes to survive, and what it means to truly live. 'A candid account of shocking events. Franci is someone many women today will be able to identify with' 5***** Reader Review 'First-hand accounts of life in Nazi death camps never lose their terrible power but few are as extraordinary as Franci's War' Mail on Sunday 'Fascinating and traumatic. Well worth a read' 5***** Reader Review

Family, Faith and Love - Beyond Immigration (Paperback): Elizabeth McClure Family, Faith and Love - Beyond Immigration (Paperback)
Elizabeth McClure; Ralph Bartel; Edited by Alan G Bartel
R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared - The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation (Paperback): Norman Fischer This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared - The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation (Paperback)
Norman Fischer; Alan Lew 1
R512 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith. The Days of Awe encompass the weeks preceding Rosh Hashanah up to Yom Kippur, a period in which Jews take part in a series of rituals and prayers that reenact the journey of the soul through the world from birth to death. This is a period of contemplation and repentance, comparable to Lent and Ramadan. Yet, for Rabbi Alan Lew, the real purpose of this annual passage is for us to experience brokenheartedness and open our heart to God. In This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, Lew has marked out a journey of seven distinct stages, one that draws on these rituals to awaken our soul and wholly transform us. Weaving together Torah readings, Buddhist parables, Jewish fables and stories from his own life, Lew lays bare the meanings of this ancient Jewish passage. He reveals the path from terror to acceptance, confusion to clarity, doubt to belief, and from complacency to awe. In the tradition of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, This Is Real And You Are Completely Unprepared enables believers of all faiths to reconnect to their faith with a passion and intimacy that will resonate throughout the year.

British Jewry and the Holocaust - With a New Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Richard Bolchover British Jewry and the Holocaust - With a New Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Richard Bolchover
R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How did British Jewry respond to the Holocaust, how prominent was it on the communal agenda, and what does this response tell us about the values, politics, and fears of the Anglo-Jewish community? This book studies the priorities of that community, and thereby seeks to analyse the attitudes and philosophies which informed actions. It paints a picture of Anglo-Jewish life and its reactions to a wide range of matters in the non-Jewish world. Richard Bolchover charts the transmission of the news of the European catastrophe and discusses the various theories regarding reactions to these exceptional circumstances. He investigates the structures and political philosophies of Anglo-Jewry during the war years and covers the reactions of Jewish political and religious leaders as well as prominent Jews acting outside the community's institutional framework. Various co-ordinated responses, political and philanthropic, are studied, as are the issues which dominated the community at that time, namely internal conflict and the fear of increased domestic antisemitism: these preoccupations inevitably affected responses to events in Europe. The latter half of the book looks at the ramifications of the community's socio-political philosophies including, most radically, Zionism, and their influence on communal reactions. This acclaimed study raises major questions about the structures and priorities of the British Jewish community. For this paperback, the author has added a new Introduction summarizing research in the field since the book's first appearance.

From One End of the Earth to the Other - The London Bet Din, 1805-1855, and the Jewish Convicts Transported to Australia... From One End of the Earth to the Other - The London Bet Din, 1805-1855, and the Jewish Convicts Transported to Australia (Paperback)
Jeremy I. Pfeffer
R909 Discovery Miles 9 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The emancipation of the Jews of England was largely complete when George III came to the throne in 1760. Free to live how and where they wished, the Jews had been specifically exempted from the provisions of the 1753 Marriage Act which made Christian marriage the only legal option for all others. The effect of this exemption was to put the matrimonial causes of the Jews of England exclusively in the hands of their Rabbis and Dayanim (Jewish ecclesiastical judges) for the next one hundred years. No Bet Din (Jewish ecclesiastical court) anywhere in the world has left such a complete record of its transactions -- matrimonial and proselytical -- as that contained in the extant Pinkas (minute-book) of the London Bet Din from 1805 to 1855. In all other matters, including the offences punishable by transportation, Jews were subject to the jurisdiction of the civil courts. Of the estimated 150,000 convict transportees shipped to the Australian penal colonies, some seven hundred were Jews. Matrimonial and related matters involving twenty of these miscreants are recorded in the Pinkas. Jeremy Pfeffer recounts the history of the London Bet Din during these years as revealed by the Pinkas record and relates the previously untold stories of this group of Jewish convict transportees and their families.

What We're Scared Of (Paperback): Keren David What We're Scared Of (Paperback)
Keren David
R189 Discovery Miles 1 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Evie and Lottie are twin sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Evie's sharp and funny. Lottie's a day-dreamer. Evie's the fighter, Lottie's the peace-maker. What they do have in common is their Jewishness - even though the family isn't religious. When their mother gets a high-profile job and is targeted by antisemitic trolls on social media, the girls brush it off at first - but then the threats start getting uglier. . . What We're Scared Of is a taut thriller, a tale of sibling friendship and rivalry - and a searing look at what happens when you scratch beneath the surface.

Secret Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Michael Alpert Secret Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Michael Alpert
R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the end of the 15th century until the 18th, Spanish Jews carried on Jewish practices in the shadow of the Inquisition. Those caught were forced to recant or be burnt at the stake. Drawing on their confessions and trial documents, this book tells their story.

To Know Torah - The Book of Genesis - To Understand the Weekly Parasha. Modern Reading in the Peshat of the Torah and its Ideas... To Know Torah - The Book of Genesis - To Understand the Weekly Parasha. Modern Reading in the Peshat of the Torah and its Ideas (Paperback)
Ephraim Chamiel
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Studies in Spirituality (Hardcover): Jonathan Sacks Studies in Spirituality (Hardcover)
Jonathan Sacks
R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Trouble-making Judaism (Paperback): Elli Tikvah Sarah Trouble-making Judaism (Paperback)
Elli Tikvah Sarah
R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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