Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Important Judaica
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Jewish Literacy Revised Ed
Author: Joseph TelushkinPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062046047
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1079
Book Description
What does it mean to be a Jew? How does one begin to answer so extensive a question? In this insightful and completely updated tome, esteemed rabbi and bestselling author Joseph Telushkin helps answer the question of what it means to be a Jew, in the largest sense. Widely recognized as one of the most respected and indispensable reference books on Jewish life, culture, tradition, and religion, Jewish Literacy covers every essential aspect of the Jewish people and Judaism. In 352 short and engaging chapters, Rabbi Telushkin discusses everything from the Jewish Bible and Talmud to Jewish notions of ethics to antisemitism and the Holocaust; from the history of Jews around the world to Zionism and the politics of a Jewish state; from the significance of religious traditions and holidays to how they are practiced in daily life. Whether you want to know more about Judaism in general or have specific questions you'd like answered, Jewish Literacy is sure to contain the information you need. Rabbi Telushkin's expert knowledge of Judaism makes the updated and revised edition of Jewish Literacy an invaluable reference. A comprehensive yet thoroughly accessible resource for anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of Judaism, Jewish Literacy is a must for every Jewish home.
A Classification System for Libraries of Judaica
Author: David H. ElazarPublisher: Jason Aronson
ISBN: 9780765759832
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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Author: Important Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Works of Art and Paintings
Author: Sotheby's Israel LimitedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Important Judaica
Author: Sotheby'sLetters to Josep
Author: Levy DaniellaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789659254002
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a collection of letters from a religious Jew in Israel to a Christian friend in Barcelona on life as an Orthodox Jew. Equal parts lighthearted and insightful, it's a thorough and entertaining introduction to the basic concepts of Judaism.
Important Judaica
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The Jewish Alchemists
Author: Raphael PataiPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691006420
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
In this monumental work, Raphael Patai, acclaimed author of Hebrew Myths (with Robert Graves) and The Hebrew Goddess, opens up an entirely new field in cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions. Among the myriad subjects treated in the book is the close relationship between alchemy and medicine as practiced by Jewish adepts. Other Jewish alchemists combined alchemy with magic or with kabbalistic practices. Still others became, through their alchemical efforts, the forerunners of modern chemistry. The culmination of many years of research, The Jewish Alchemists shows that alchemy was much more than the attempt at transmuting base metals into gold: it was a powerful worldview that assumed an essential unity underlying all of nature - and the power of humans to intervene, with God's help, in nature's course.
Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers
Author: Dan Cohn-SherbokPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135983739
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith Plaskow, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin. Also including fully updated guides to further reading on figures from the middle ages through to the twenty-first century, historical maps and a chronology placing the thinkers in context, this is an essential and affordable one-volume reference to a rich and complex tradition.