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Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain
essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth
compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long
guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the
origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals.
The Rosh Hashanah Anthology is designed to make the commemoration
of the Jewish New Year meaningful as both a solemn and a festive
day. Its religious impact, significance, history, and messages are
embodied in the great treasures of Jewish classical writings-the
Bible, Talmud, midrashim, medieval theological and philosophical
works, codes of law and liturgy-and all are featured in this
volume. In addition, modern works by S. Y. Agnon, Franz Rosenzweig,
Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Elie Wiesel accompany liturgical
selections with commentaries, depictions of Rosh Hashanah
observances in many lands, detailed programming suggestions,
illustrations, and an extensive bibliography.
Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain
essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth
compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long
guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the
origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals.
Drawing on Jewish creativity from hundreds of sources-the Bible,
postbiblical literature, Talmud, midrashim, prayers with
commentaries, Hasidic tales, short stories, poems, liturgical
music-and describing Yom Kippur observances in various lands and
eras, The Yom Kippur Anthology vividly evokes the vitality of this
holiday throughout history and its significance for the modern Jew.
Literary works by prominent authors S. Y. Agnon, Martin Buber,
Meyer Levin, I. L. Peretz, Franz Rosenzweig, Sholom Aleichem, Elie
Wiesel, and Herman Wouk also illuminate the spiritual grandeur of
the holiday.
Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain
essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth
compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long
guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the
origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals.
The Sukkot and Simhat Torah Anthology offers new insight intothe
Festival of Ingathering, celebrating the harvest in the land of our
ancestors, and the Festival of Rejoicing in the Law, marking the
new cycle of public Torah readings, by elucidating the two
festivals' background, historical development, and spiritual truths
for Jews and humankind. Mining the Bible, postbiblical literature,
Talmud, midrashim, prayers with commentaries, and Hasidic tales,
the compendium also showcases humor, art, food, song, dance,
essays, stories, and poems-including works by Chaim Weizmann, Elie
Wiesel, Herman Wouk, S. Y. Agnon, Sholom Aleichem, H. N. Bialik,
and Solomon Schechter-truly a rich harvest for the "Season of Our
Rejoicing."
Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain
essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth
compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long
guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the
origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals.
The Purim Anthology recounts the origins of the first Purim, then
examines festival observances in different eras throughout the
world, laws and rites, and finally provides plays and poems,
stories and songs. This treasury includes "The Origin of Purim" by
Solomon Grayzel, "The Esther Story in Art" by Rachel Wischnitzer,
"Purim in Music" by A. W. Binder (including an extensive
compilation of Purim songs), "The History of Purim Plays" by Jacob
Shatzky, Purim celebrations in Tel Aviv by Mortimer J. Cohen, and
Purim in humor by Israel Davidson-all together a thoughtful and
fun-filled literary feast.
Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain
essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth
compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long
guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking
the origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish
festivals.  The Shavuot Anthology elucidates
Shavuot’s teachings, customs, stories, and lore for a modern
generation. In this in-depth compendium, writings by Flavius
Josephus and Philo of Alexandria, Talmud and midrash, medieval
literature by Moses Maimonides, poetry by Judah Halevi and Abraham
ibn Ezra, prose by Abraham Joshua Heschel and Ahad Ha’am, and
stories by Martin Buber and Sholom Aleichem appear alongside art
and dramatizations, arts and crafts, culinary arts and humor,
children’s stories and games, and programs and projects. Â
Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain
essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth
compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long
guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the
origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals.
The Passover Anthology describes the varied experiences of the
Jewish Passover throughout the lands and the ages: the story, the
many facets of its celebration in the Jewish home and community,
the laws and the prayers, the seder plate and the songs, the art
and the dances, and-of course-the games. Showcasing modern writings
by Winston Churchill, Heinrich Heine, Hayyim Nahman Bialik, and
others, the volumeis a rich resource that today's reflective
readers will not wish to pass over.
Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain
essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth
compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long
guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the
origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals.
The Hanukkah Anthology delves into the stories and messages of
Hanukkah as they have unfolded in Jewish literature over the past
two thousand years: biblical intimations of the festival,
postbiblical writings, selections from the Talmud and midrashim,
excerpts from medieval books, home liturgies, laws and customs,
observances in different nations, stories and poems, art, and
recipes. This timeless volume features many works by prominent
authors, including Herman Wouk, Judah L. Magnes, Chaim Potok,
Heinrich Heine, Emma Lazarus, Howard Fast, Sholom Aleichem, Curt
Leviant, I. L. Peretz, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a
pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and
lenient rehabilitation. While this view is common wisdom, it is
wrong. In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and
Michelle Phelps systematically debunk the pendulum perspective,
showing that it distorts how and why criminal justice changes. The
pendulum model blinds us to the blending of penal orientations,
policies, and practices, as well as the struggle between actors
that shapes laws, institutions, and how we think about crime,
punishment, and related issues. Through a re-analysis of more than
two hundred years of penal history, starting with the rise of
penitentiaries in the 19th Century and ending with ongoing efforts
to roll back mass incarceration, the authors offer an alternative
approach to conceptualizing penal development. Their agonistic
perspective posits that struggle is the motor force of criminal
justice history. Punishment expands, contracts, and morphs because
of contestation between real people in real contexts, not a
mechanical "swing" of the pendulum. This alternative framework is
far more accurate and empowering than metaphors that ignore or
downplay the importance of struggle in shaping criminal justice.
This clearly written, engaging book is an invaluable resource for
teachers, students, and scholars seeking to understand the past,
present, and future of American criminal justice. By demonstrating
the central role of struggle in generating major transformations,
Breaking the Pendulum encourages combatants to keep fighting to
change the system.
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