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  • American Hebraist

    Essays on Agnon and Modern Jewish Literature

    by Alan Mintz ...
    Series series Dimyonot
    Alan Mintz (1947–2017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numerous journal articles on modern and contemporary Jewish culture, Mintz contributed countless reviews and essays to literary journals, including the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, and the Jewish Review of Books. Scattered in miscellaneous ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Conversations with Elie Wiesel

    by Elie Wiesel, Richard D. Heffner ...
    Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life’s timeless questions.In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner—American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor—Elie Wiesel covers fascinating and often ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Charisma

    The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us

    by Philip Rieff ...
    From a profoundly influential social theorist comes a posthumously published analysis of the deepest level of crisis in our culture.“A compelling diagnosis of our condition.” —The Wall Street JournalAccording to Rieff, the contemporary notion of charisma—the personal magnetism of political leaders or movie stars—is a tragic misunderstanding of a profoundly important concept. Charisma originally ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Wicked Son

    Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews

    by David Mamet ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesAs might be expected from this fiercely provocative writer, David Mamet’s interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder—the child who asks, “What does this story mean to you?” ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Elie Wiesel

    Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

    by Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen ...
    "Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel's interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more." — Publishers WeeklyNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Joke

    Making Jewish Humor

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Resurrecting Hebrew

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesHere is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend diagnoses “language withdrawal,” and Stavans sets out in search of his own ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How Judaism Became a Religion

    An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

    by Leora Batnitzky ...
    Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period--and why Jewish thinkers have ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Judaism Beyond God

    by Rabbi Sherwin T Wine ...
    Judaism Beyond God presents an innovative secular and humanistic alternative for Jewish identity. It provides new answers to old questions about the essence of Jewish identity, the real meaning of Jewish history, the significance of the Jewish personality, and the nature of Jewish ethics. It also describes a radical and creative way to be Jewish - new ways to celebrate Jewish holidays and life ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stranger in a Strange Land

    Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem

    by George Prochnik ...
    Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem—the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah—Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel.In Stranger in a Strange Land, Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom Scholem, whose once ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Story of Hebrew

    by Lewis Glinert ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    A unique history of the Hebrew language from biblical times to the modern Jewish stateThis book explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Blessing and the Curse

    The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. From the vast emigration of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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