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  • Radical Responsibility

    Celebrating the Thought of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

    by Harris, Michael J., Rynhold, Daniel, Wright, Tamra ...
    Celebrating one of the greatest Jewish scholars of our time, Radical Responsibility brings together thirteen luminaries of Jewish and Western thought to explore the intellectual legacy of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Centred on the fundamental themes of his work, ethics, justice, religion, and leadership this collection advances Rabbi Sacks' lifelong quest to bridge Torah and secular wisdom, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Face to Face with Animals

    Levinas and the Animal Question

    Edited by Peter Atterton, Tamra Wright ...
    Explores Levinas's approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.This is the first volume of primary and secondary source material dedicated solely to the animal question in Levinas. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including the recent discovery and digitization of the original French recording of an interview with Levinas that took place in 1986, it seeks to give fresh ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Twilight of Jewish Philosophy

    by Tamra Wright ...
    First Published in 1999. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is widely acknowledged to be one of the great Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. This book explores the relationship between Levinas' ethical philosophy and his understanding of Judaism. Through close readings of his major texts, the significance of key terms in Levinas' work is clarified. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • This Is My God

    by Herman Wouk ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author shares a "valuable, wise, and quietly moving" meditation on orthodox Judaism ( Chicago Tribune ).Renowned for his sweeping historical novels such as The Cain Mutiny and The Winds of War, Herman Wouk now presents a brilliantly distilled examination of his own religious faith. A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing. ... Read more

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  • But You Did Not Come Back

    A Memoir

    by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Judith Perrignon ...
    A French woman's heartrending account of her survival in a WWII Nazi concentration camp—and a tribute to her father who died there.A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust. It is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan ... Read more

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  • The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945

    by Lucy S. Dawidowicz ...
    A history of how anti-Semitism evolved into the Holocaust in Germany: "If any book can tell what Hitlerism was like, this is it" (Alfred Kazin).Lucy Dawidowicz's groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz argues that genocide was, to the Nazis, as central a war goal as conquering Europe, and was made possible by a ... Read more

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  • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared

    The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation

    by Alan Lew ...
    In this “journey of spiritual transformation” (Publishers Weekly) award winning author Rabbi Alan Lew follows the practices and rituals of the Jewish High Holy Days and guides readers through heartbreak, contemplation, and re-birth.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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Stars of David

    Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish

    by Abigail Pogrebin ...
    Sixty-two of the most accomplished Jews in America speak intimately—most for the first time—about how they feel about being Jewish. In unusually candid interviews conducted by former 60 Minutes producer Abigail Pogrebin, celebrities ranging from Sarah Jessica Parker to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from Larry King to Mike Nichols, reveal how resonant, crucial or incidental being ... Read more

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  • Becoming Jewish

    The Challenges, Rewards, and Paths to Conversion

    by Jennifer S. Hanin, Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben ...
    Becoming Jewish is the first all-inclusive, step-by-step guide to converting to Judaism. Steven Carr Reuben, a highly respected rabbi, and Jennifer S. Hanin, a convert to the faith, lead readers through the conversion process, providing the right mix of advice, resources and humor for the journey.Jews-to-be often find the steps to Judaism foreign, complex, and mysterious. From learning an ancient ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The Jewish Body

    An Anatomical History of the Jewish People

    by Melvin Konner ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book that examines the human body through the prism of Jewish culture. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Rodinsky's Room

    by Iain Sinclair, Rachel Lichtenstein ...
    Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the 1930s. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London - with Iain Sinclair's meditations on ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • My Heart Is At Ease

    by Gerta Solan ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    In June 1942, when twelve-year-old Gerta is deported with her parents to the Theresienstadt ghetto – the Nazis' deceptive "model Jewish settlement" – her family helps her cope with the surrounding devastation. Later, alone in Auschwitz, Gerta is determined to survive the unbearable. Her intrepid spirit and keen observation guides her anew through post-war communism to freedom in Canada. ... Read more

    $6.29 USD