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Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 37.99Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern times. The text has three sections: Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, and each section... more...
Trabajo en el sector pesquero
ILO Publications 2005; US$ 13.50Comprises replies received from governments and employers and workers organizations concerning the proposed ILO Convention and Recommendation on work in the fishing sector. Includes a commentary by the ILO and a report on the Tripartite Meeting of Experts on the Fishing Sector, December 2004. more...
Jews and Messianism in the Modern Era
Oxford University Press, USA 1991; US$ 124.99The seventh volume of the acclaimed annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jews and Messianism in the Modern Era: Metaphor and Meaning examines the significance and meaning of messianic metaphors, themes, and ideals in modern Jewish history and culture. In addition to the standard symposia,... more...
Wisdom in Transition
BRILL 2008; US$ 173.00This volume considers a major shift among Jewish sages during the Second Temple period, as certain authors moved from an earthly focus to a belief in individual immortality. Egyptian instructions and the book of Proverbs are examined for necessary background. The colorful responses of Qoheleth and Ben Sira to an emergent belief in the afterlife are... more...
The Significance of Sinai
BRILL 2008; US$ 173.00Presents ancient and modern Jewish and Christian views of the revelation at Sinai. This title includes essays which show that Sinai as the location of the revelation soon became less significant than the narratives about it. more...
Maimonides
Wiley 2009; US$ 98.95A thorough and accessible introduction to Maimonides, arguably one of the most important Jewish philosophers of all time. This work incorporates material from Maimonides’ philosophical, legal, and medical works, providing a synoptic picture of Maimonides’ philosophical range. Maimonides was, and remains, one of the most influential and... more...
What Do You Mean, You Can't Eat in My Home?
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 23.00Here is a book of workable, sensible solutions to the everyday problems faced by newly observant Jews as they try to explain the parameters of their new lives to the people who love them?but think they?ve gone around the bend. For the formerly nonobservant Jew who has decided to live an observant life, the most daunting task can be dealing with less-observant... more...
Our Haggadah
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 15.99New York Times bestselling authors and journalists Cokie and Steve Roberts share their Passover traditions in this engaging version of the Haggadah for couples and families of mixed faiths. When they met more than forty years ago, Cokie and Steve Roberts found common ground in their shared values, despite their different religious beliefs.... more...
Israel in the Apostolic Church
Cambridge University Press 1969; US$ 46.00A historical study of the adoption by Christianity of Jewish prerogatives and attributes. more...
Judaisms and their Messiahs at the Turn of the Christian Era
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 37.00In its approach to evidence, not harmonizing but analyzing and differentiating, this book marks a revolutionary shift in the study of ancient Judaism and Christianity. more...









