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Fatal Embrace
Beaufort Books 2012; US$ 18.90Mark Braverman shows how the Jewish quest for safety and empowerment and the Christian endeavor to atone for centuries of anti-Semitism have combined to suppress the conversations needed to bring about a just and lasting peace in the Holy Land. Fatal Embrace charts Braverman's journey as an American Jew struggling with the difficult realities of... more...
The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 21.99Are there parallels between the "moment of insight" in science and the emergence of the "unknowable" in religious faith? Where does scientific insight come from? Award-winning biologist Robert Pollack argues that an alliance between religious faith and science is not necessarily an argument in favor of irrationality: the two can inform each other's... more...
Studies in Modern Jewish and Hindu Thought
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 101.00The book compares modern Jewish and Hindu thought through discussing selected writers with reference to common issues treated by them, issues which are still relevant today. The writers are Mahatma Gandhi, Max Nordau, A.D. Gordon, Martin Buber, Sri Aurobindo, Rav Kook and Rabindranath Tagore. The issues include the following: the critique of civilisation,... more...
Reconstructing Ashkenaz
Stanford University Press 2008; US$ 67.50Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional historical accounts, the Jews of western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. more...
Fertility and Jewish Law
Brandeis University Press 2012; US$ 34.99A comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective more...
Narratives and Jewish Bioethics
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 80.00Narratives and Jewish Bioethics searches for answers to the critical question of what roles ancient narratives play in creating modern norms by Jewish bioethicists utilizing the Jewish textual tradition. more...
A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 27.00Kessler and Wenborn's pioneering work explores and defines the many factors which characterise the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. It provides a comprehensive single reference to a subject which touches on numerous areas of study including theology, religious studies, history, Jewish studies, literature and social and political studies. more...
Hate and the 'Jewish Science'
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 39.00Psychoanalysis has always grappled with its Jewish origins, sometimes celebrating them and sometimes trying to escape or deny them. Through exploration of Freud's Jewish identity, the fate of psychoanalysis in Germany under the Nazis, and psychoanalytic theories of anti-Semitism, this book examines the significance of the Jewish connection with psychoanalysis... more...
The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews
BRILL 2004; US$ 123.00Drawing on ongoing research in the archive of the former Roman Inquisition, this volume presents new perspectives for research on the relations between the Catholic Church, Jews and Judaism and places them within the context of the extant scholarship on papal policy, censorship and the Marrano milieu. more...
Holy Hatred
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 32.00Although Christianity's precise influence on the Holocaust cannot be determined and the Christian churches did not themselves perpetrate the Final Solution, Michael argues that two millennia of Christian ideas and prejudices and their impact on Christians' behaviour appear to be the major basis of antisemitism and it's apex, the Holocaust. more...









