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  • Disasters of Biblical Proportions

    The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World

    by Steven Weitzman ...
    How people have reimagined the story of the ten plagues of Egypt, from antiquity to our own era of relentless catastrophePeople have been telling and retelling stories about disasters for as long as they have been telling stories. One of the oldest of such stories is the ten plagues in the book of Exodus, the series of disasters that forced the Egyptians to liberate the Israelites. These plagues ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom

    by Steven Weitzman ...

    $17.99 USD

  • The Origin of the Jews

    The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age

    by Steven Weitzman ...
    The first major history of the scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish originsThe Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Occupied Words

    What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

    by Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven Weitzman, Shaul Magid, Francesca Trivellato ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Jews from Ancient Canaan to a Global Culture

    by Matthias Lehmann, Steven Weitzman ...
    This accessibly written volume examines the major periods of Jewish history around the world, from the Jews' distant origins in antiquity through the beginnings of the modern period and the emergence of secular culture.Although Jews are a small minority, they have settled in almost every part of the world, developing many different subcultures. They have had an outsized impact on global religion ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Occupied Words

    What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

    by Hannah Pollin-Galay, Steven Weitzman, Shaul Magid, Francesca Trivellato ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Jews

    A History

    by John Efron, Steven Weitzman, Matthias Lehmann ...
    The Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith.Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context, the book covers a broad time span, stretching from ancient Israel to the modern day. It examines Jewish history across a range of settings, including the ancient Near East, the ... Read more

    $120.00 USD

  • Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism

    by Elisheva Carlebach, Emily Kopley, Cosana Eram, Matt Goldish, Shai Held, Motti Inbari, Martin Kavka, Shaul Magid, Benjamin Pollock, Annette Reed, Kenneth Seeskin, David Shatz, Menachem Kellner ...
    Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies

    Edited by Leora Batnitzky, Eve Krakowski, Steven Weitzman ...
    An authoritative guide to Jewish studies, reflecting the latest research in a diverse and flourishing fieldJewish studies is a dynamic, interdisciplinary field that draws on the methods of the modern academy—historical research, anthropology, literary studies, philosophy, religious studies, sociology, feminism, and the study of the arts and culture, among others—to illuminate the past and present ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The FBI and Religion

    Faith and National Security before and after 9/11

    Edited by Sylvester A. Johnson, Steven Weitzman ...
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence. As early as 1917, the Bureau began to target religious communities and groups it believed were hotbeds of anti-American politics. Whether these religious communities were pacifist groups that opposed American wars, or religious groups that advocated for white ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Cultures of the Jews

    A New History (National Jewish Book Award)

    Edited by David Biale ...
    WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUTWho are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors?To address these and similar questions, twenty ... Read more

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  • Not in God's Name

    Confronting Religious Violence

    by Jonathan Sacks ...
    ***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner***In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If religion is perceived as being part of the problem, Rabbi Sacks argues, then it must also form part of the solution. When religion becomes a zero-sum conceit ... Read more

    $12.99 USD