This is the extraordinary story of the author’s twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father’s family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis into concent
Scholar of Jewish thought Schweid begins the collection with an autobiographical essay, then discusses his way in the research and teaching of Jewish thought Judaism and the lonely Jew, faith: its tru
Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle, and remove the disguises of the many forms of antise
"Fundamentals of Jewish Conflict Resolution offers an in-depth presentation of traditional Jewish approaches to interpersonal conflict resolution. It examines the underlying principles, prescriptive r
Are there theoretical grounds for tolerance in the classical Jewish tradition? Is human autonomy endorsed by Judaism? What is the range of attitudes toward pleasure that has found expression in Jewish
Miron presents students, academics, researchers, and general-interest readers with an examination of the relationship between the traditional Jewish past and the present through the metaphysical work
Challenging the public's negative perception of the Jewish religion's views on love, Naftali Rothenberg shows his readers the fundamental ways in which love forms the foundation of Scriptural meditati
This book argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society. In their diasporic cultural creations Russia’s Jews employed the general themes of artists under t
Ivan Konevskoi: “Wise Child” of Russian Symbolism is the first study in any language of Ivan Konevskoi –— poet, thinker, mystic— – for many decades the “lost genius” of Russian modernism. A fresh and
As a lawyer and scholar, the late Dr. Kriger (PhD, Near and Middle Eastern civilizations, U. of Toronto) reads biblical and postbiblical texts in comparative philological and legal system analyses, in
