Judaism: branches and groups

The official prayer book for Orthodox Jews in the UK, with supporting commentary by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

This study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam "e;New Muslims.

The volume contains the edited papers presented at the 10th international conference of the Societe d'Etudes Samaritaines held in Budapest in 2022.

Jewish law forbids carrying objects between private or public areas on the Sabbath.

Jack Nusan Porter's writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War.

A new theory of the Talmud''s formation based on comparison with late antique intellectual and material standards of book production.

Remix Judaism: Preserving Tradition in a Diverse World offers an eloquent and thoughtful new vision for all Jews seeking a sense of belonging in a changing world, regardless of their current level of observance.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and labor movement.

What does it mean to be Jewish?

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte des alten Israel, in eine Zeit, in der Glaube und Macht untrennbar miteinander verwoben waren.

A user-friendly siddur, by the same author as Tiku Shofar, for children ages 8 through 13, junior congregations and family services.

Nach 1945, so die These dieses Buchs, sind gerade im amerikanischen Judentum fruchtbare Ansätze neuer Begegnungsformen zwischen Juden und Christen entstanden.

The Emancipation of European Jewry during the nineteenth century led to conflict between tradition and modernity, creating a chasm that few believed could be bridged.

As a scientist, philosopher and scholar in Jewish thought, Yeshayahu Leibowitz was one of the most noteworthy thinkers in the twentieth century.

Hasidic groups have myriad customs.

This book examines the relationship between the rabbinate and politics in religious Zionism during the early years of the State of Israel.

';Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression.

Habsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army, 1788-1918, concentrating on World War I.

In a time of turmoil and transformation, one man's spiritual journey laid the foundation for centuries of mystical thought.

Given Leopold Zunz's difficult German style and the tight conciseness of his presentation, it is hardly surprising that no English translation of his Die Ritus (1859) has been published.

This book is a collection of two dozen essays published over the past four decades on American Jewish history and culture.

As a scientist, philosopher and scholar in Jewish thought, Yeshayahu Leibowitz was one of the most noteworthy thinkers in the twentieth century.

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish philosophers from Isaac Bernays to Yeshayau Leibowitz; and biblical commentators such as Samuel David Luzzatto and Rabbi Umberto Cassuto.

Vom unbekümmerten bayrischen Partygänger zum Rabbi in Jerusalem: Rabbiner David Kraus erzählt entwaffnend ehrlich, voller Humor und sehr inspirierend, wie er zum jüdischen Glauben fand – und wie sich die Widrigkeiten des Lebens zu Quellen des Glücks umwandeln lassen.

Habsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army, 1788-1918, concentrating on World War I.

Patriots without a Homeland dissects an important underexplored theme in Hungarian Jewry: Modern Orthodoxy.

Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself?

Unlock the mysteries of one of the most profound works of Jewish mysticism in The Light of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of the Zohar.

';Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression.

EINE GESCHICHTE ÜBER DEN TRAUM VON FREIHEIT UND EINE AUßERGEWÖHNLICHE FREUNDSCHAFT.

A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, "e;is an invitation to reflect on the last century of teaching and learning at Hebrew College, to ask ourselves what has changed and what has endured, to explore accomplishments and share ongoing struggles, to articulate our aspirations for the next one hundred years.

Die Charedim, die isolationistisch-fundamentalistisch lebenden ultraorthodoxen Juden, sind die am schnellsten wachsende Bevölkerungsgruppe in Israel.

This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history.

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway.

What could be more ingrained in the Jewish psyche as well as pop culture everywhere than the B'nei Mitzvah ceremony?

Lilith – eine der faszinierendsten und umstrittensten Gestalten der Menschheitsgeschichte.

Jack Nusan Porter's writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War.

Remix Judaism: Preserving Tradition in a Diverse World offers an eloquent and thoughtful new vision for all Jews seeking a sense of belonging in a changing world, regardless of their current level of observance.

Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire countryside in June 2014, for the first (now annual) Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism.

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish philosophers from Isaac Bernays to Yeshayau Leibowitz; and biblical commentators such as Samuel David Luzzatto and Rabbi Umberto Cassuto.

A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish historybut many precedents among religious communities in the United States.

A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, "e;is an invitation to reflect on the last century of teaching and learning at Hebrew College, to ask ourselves what has changed and what has endured, to explore accomplishments and share ongoing struggles, to articulate our aspirations for the next one hundred years.

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway.

'The essence of Jewish life is not the bland performance of the Torah's commandments, but rather love of Torah and the way of life to which it is the guide.

Der Islam ruhmt sich selbst, eine Religion der Leichtigkeit"e; zu sein.

Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land.

Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of food consumption.