Discusses the origins of the Jewish Bible. This work recounts the history of the Jewish people from the era of Patriarchs and Prophets through the Middle Ages up to the contemporary era. It outlines the Jewish liturgical calendar and its major rites and modes of worship. It considers the great variety of Jewish literatures, art, food and culture.

Judaism represents a tradition that goes back nearly 6,000 years. This book talks about the stories, beliefs and expressions of that tradition. The key topics covered include: the Torah; Israel - the state and its people; Passover; Reform Judaism, Orthodox Judaism and Zionism; and, the impact of the Holocaust.

A study of the long history of the Jewish people and their faith, tracing their origins from a Semitic tribe dwelling in the land of Canaan 2000 years before the birth of Christ. It draws a picture of key moments and concepts in Judaism up to the split between the orthodox and non-orthodox.

Examines how the promised land of Israel has been seen and interpreted differently over the course of Jewish history by those who call it home and by the many other individuals and cultures it has affected.

Features the life, in stories, of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), the founder of Hasidism. The Baal Shem Tov, or the Besht, as he is commonly called, led a revival in Judaism that put love and joy at the center of religious life and championed the piety of the common folk against the rabbinic establishment.

A comprehensive collection of texts that maps out the field of Critical Men's Studies in Religion. It contains 35 key texts that engage with the position of men in society and church, the ideals of masculinity as engendered by religious discourse, and alternative trajectories of being in the world, whether spiritually, relationally or sexually.

Covering the major areas of thought in contemporary Jewish Studies, including considerations of religious differences, sociological, philosophical, and gender issues, geographical diversity, inter-faith relations, and the impact of the Shoah and the state of Israel, this volume is multi-authored guide to contemporary Jewish life and thought.

Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.

A collection of essays which not only surveys the challenges that sexuality poses to Jewish belief, but also offers fresh perspectives and insights on the changing place of sexuality within Jewish theology - and Jewish lives. It covers topics such as monogamy, inter-faith relationships, reproductive technology, and homosexuality.

Reform Judaism is today one of the three major branches of the Jewish faith. This is a history of the Reform movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernisation in late 18th-century Jewish thought and practice to American renewal in the 1970s.

Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition

Because that's my f**king job.'In 1995, a film called I.D., about an ambitious young copper who was sent undercover to track down the `generals' of a football hooligan gang, achieved cult status for its sheer brutality and unsettling insight into the dark and often bloody side of the so-called beautiful game.

Joanne Limburg's intensely honest account of coming to terms with her brother's suicide; a powerful meditation on family and faith

A definitive biography of Gershom Scholem, the founder of modern Kabbalah, as well as a moving memoir of George Prochnik's time living in Jerusalem.

A guide to the study of Jewish faith. It uses the dimensional approach to the study of religions as an interpretive framework, and focuses on matters perceived as problematic by insider and/or outsider commentators, such as gender, demography, geo-politics, the 'museumisation' of Jewish cultures and its impact on religion and identity.

The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon's delightfully entertaining memoirSolomon Maimon's autobiography has delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe and George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. Here is the first complete and annotated English edition of this enduring and lively work. Born

Growing up as a blonde, popular, West Country schoolgirl, the author was the unlikeliest convert to militant Zionism but learning of the cruelty the Jewish people faced throughout history turned her into their biggest champion. In this book, she examines her 40-year obsession with the Jewish people and recounts a love affair.

From Karl Marx to the Marx Brothers Who's Who in Jewish History presents a complete reference guide to over a thousand prominent men and women who have shaped Jewish culture.

A collection of sermons by rabbi Harold I. Saperstein, made between 1933 and 1980. This book illustrates the value of the sermon as a resource for understanding the challenges faced by American Jews at some of the most dramatic moments in the turbulent history of the 20th century.