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Author | : Elie Wiesel |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 1979-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0394740572 |
A powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters, and diary entries that weave together all the periods of the author's life from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York. • "One of the great writers of our generation addresses himself to the question of what it means to be a Jew." —The New Republic Elie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and sensitive writers of our time, probes, from the particular point of view of his Jewishness, such central moral and political issues as Zionism and the Middle East conflict, Solzhenitsyn and Soviet anti-Semitism, the obligations of American Jews toward Israel, the Holocaust and its cheapening in the media. "Rich in autobiographical, philosophical, moral and historical implications." —Chicago Tribune
Author | : Noah Feldman |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2024-03-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0374721009 |
A New York Times Bestseller A leading public intellectual’s timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other. What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship to God, to Israel, and to each other—and live their lives accordingly? Writing sympathetically but incisively about diverse outlooks, Feldman clarifies what’s at stake in the choice of how to be a Jew, and discusses the shared “theology of struggle” that Jews engage in as they wrestle with who God is, what God wants, or whether God exists. He shows how the founding of Israel has transformed Judaism itself over the last century—and explores the ongoing consequences of that transformation for all Jews, who find the meaning of their Jewishness and their views about Israel intertwined, no matter what those views are. And he examines the analogies between being Jewish and belonging to a large, messy family—a family that often makes its members crazy, but a family all the same. Written with learning, empathy and clarity, To Be a Jew Today is a critical resource for readers of all faiths.
Author | : Ari L. Goldman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-10-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1416536027 |
Discussing the tenets and practice of Judaism from both a contemporary and a historical perspective, a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the nature of Judaism, its spiritual heritage, and its rituals offers a non-ideological framework for its viewpoint. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
Author | : Shlomo Sand |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1781686149 |
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what “Jewish” means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.
Author | : Zalman I. Posner |
Publisher | : Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780960239405 |
Author | : Keith Kahn-Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910170878 |
Author | : Hayim H. Donin |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1541618149 |
The classic guide to the ageless heritage of Judaism Embraced over many decades by hundreds of thousands of readers, To Be a Jew offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to traditional Jewish laws and customs as they apply to daily life in the contemporary world. In simple and powerful language, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin presents the fundamentals of Judaism, including the laws and observances for the Sabbath, the dietary laws, family life, prayer at home and in the synagogue, the major and minor holidays, and the guiding principles and observances of life, such as birth, naming, circumcision, adoption and conversion, Bar-mitzvah, marriage, divorce, death, and mourning. Ideal for reference, reflection, and inspiration, To Be a Jew will by greatly valued by anyone who feels that knowing, understanding, and observing the laws and traditions of Judaism in daily life is the essence of what it means to be a Jew.
Author | : Charles E. Silberman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780671447618 |
A richly detailed study of the status of Jews in America today.
Author | : Tamar Caspi |
Publisher | : Seal Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 158005501X |
Have you been single longer than the Jews wandered the desert? Or are you newly single and hoping to hook up with a hot MOT (Member of the Tribe)? Either way, Tamar Caspi is on a mission to help you find your Chosen One . . . and who better to do that than the advice columnist from the massively popular dating site JDate.com? In How to Woo a Jew, your very own Jewish Carrie Bradshaw takes you through each facet of the dating world—from traditional Jewish matchmaking and mixers to modern online dating portals, from honing your Jewdar to kosher sex. Whatever mishegas you’ve made of your love life, Caspi has words of wisdom—and a few enlightening quizzes, charts, and illustrations—to help you find your Jewish soul mate.
Author | : Ellis Weiner |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2010-07-27 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1101457112 |
A hilarious compendium of traditional wisdom, recipes, and lore from the authors of the bestselling Yiddish with Dick and Jane. Modern Jews have forgotten cherished traditions and become, sadly, all- too assimilated. It's enough to make you meshugeneh. Today's Jews need to relearn the old ways so that cultural identity means something other than laughing knowingly at Curb Your Enthusiasm- and The Big Jewish Book for Jews is here to help. This wise and wise-cracking fully-illustrated book offers invaluable instruction on everything from how to sacrifice a lamb unto the lord to the rules of Mahjong. Jews of all ages and backgrounds will welcome the opportunity to be the Jewiest Jew of all, and reconnect to ancestors going all the way back to Moses and a time when God was the only GPS a Jew needed.