The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash
10 best books like The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash (Hayyim Nahman Bialik): To Pray As A Jew: A Guide To The Prayer Book And The Synagogue Service, The Jew in the Lotus, The Prophets, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, Only Yesterday, Marven of the Great North Woods, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume One, Immortal Poems of the English Language, Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls
| Author | Hayim Halevy Donin |
| ISBN | 0465086330 |
A distinguished guide to Jewish prayer
Why do Jews pray? What is the role of prayer in their lives as moral and ethical beings? From the simplest details of how to comport oneself on entering a synagogue to the most profound and moving comments on the prayers themselves, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin...
| Author | Rodger Kamenetz |
| ISBN | 0060645741 |
While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues...
| Author | Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| ISBN | 0060936991 |
Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first published in 1962, it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship.
The Prophets provides a unique opportunity for readers of...
| Author | Gershom Scholem |
| ISBN | 0805210423 |
"Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism" tells the history of Jewish mysticism following the advent of Christianity which Gershom Scholem considers to have been the first and still the most catastrophic Jewish mystic movement. Scholem, who defines mysticism as a religious practice which emphasizes...
| Author | S.Y. Agnon |
| ISBN | 0691095442 |
Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon's famous masterpiece, his novel Only Yesterday, here appears in English translation for the first time. Published in 1945, the book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya--the several hundred idealists who returned...
This is a wonderful picture book. It is a bit long, so I'd recommend for ages 5 and up. But it succeeds in a tough genre for children's books - period non-fiction.
It's a story of a 10-year-old, Marven, who is sent away from his family during the flu epidemic of 1918. He leaves Duluth and goes to a logging...
Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
| Author | Wilma Mankiller |
| ISBN | 0312206623 |
In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning...
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume One
| Author | Daniel C. Matt |
| ISBN | 0804747474 |
The first two volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, translated with commentary by Daniel C. Matt, cover more than half of the Zohar's commentary on the Book of Genesis (through Genesis 32:3). This is the first translation ever made from a critical Aramaic text of the Zohar, which has been established...
| Author | Oscar Williams |
| ISBN | 0671496107 |
Immortal Poems
Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished...
| Author | Stephanie Wellen Levine |
| ISBN | 0814751970 |
From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher with a desire for a high-powered career, Stephanie Wellen Levine provides a rare glimpse into the inner worlds...
| Author | Arthur Hertzberg |
| ISBN | 0827606222 |
I was directed to read this book because I read "The Zionist Ideas" by Gil Troy. Both were commissioned by The Jewish Publication Society. Arthur Herzberg's was commissioned 10 years after the creation of Israel and Gil Troy's was commissioned 70 years after the creation of Israel. Gil Troys was somewhat...
| Author | Robert Eisenberg |
| ISBN | 0062512234 |
Boychiks in the Hood is your passport to the Hasidic "underworld" -- a destination far different from popular expectations. Join Robert Eisenberg as he hangs out with an ex-Deadhead in Antwerp, makes a pilgrimage to the grave of the revered Rebbie Nachman in the Ukraine, munches mini-bagels with Rollerblading...
| Author | Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg |
| ISBN | 0385483376 |
Turn the Scriptures over to Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg and what do you get? A unique blend of brilliant literary insights and theological wisdom, derived from a lifelong immersion in rabbinic traditions and lore. With amazing literary sensitivity, Zornberg ingeniously breathes new life into Adam...
| Author | Judith Tarr |
| ISBN | 0451460022 |
For 500 years the Saxons ruled England, crushing the ancient powers. But a wave of change approaches. Across the Channel in Normandy, William is born-the bastard son of a duke and a magical woman of Druid descent. As he grows to manhood, William's battle skills earn him respect, but his temper and disregard...
| Author | Jane S. Gerber |
| ISBN | 0029115744 |
The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity. Summarily expelled in 1492 and forced into exile, their...
| Author | Barry W. Cunliffe |
| ISBN | 0300119232 |
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0877286183 |
Let me say, first, that this is extraordinarily intricate and complicated. I have only the roughest knowledge of the precepts of Kabbalah, and found this to be quite difficult to get through. The book is structured into five parts (1. The first verses of creation, 2. The alphabet, 3. The Seven Voices...
Southern Ladies and Gentlemen
| Author | Florence King |
| ISBN | 0312099150 |
Looking for guidance in understanding the ways and means of Southern culture? Look no further. Florence King's celebrated field guide to the land below the Mason-Dixon Line is now blissfully back in print, just in time for the Clinton era. The Failed Souther Lady's classic primer on Dixie manners captures...
| Author | James L. Kugel |
| ISBN | 0674069412 |
This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous, ancient interpreters radically...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0374505926 |
Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, and the never-ending...
| Author | Nahum M. Sarna |
| ISBN | 0805202536 |
"This book...is designed to make the Bible of Israel intelligible, relevant, and hopefully, inspiring to a sophisticated generation, possessed of intellectual curiosity and ethical sensitivity...It is based on the belief that the study of the Book of Books must constitute a mature intellectual...
| Author | Moshe Chayim Luzzatto |
| ISBN | 1583307281 |
Of the many works of Rabbi Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto, Mesillat Yesharim stands out as his magnum opus. Ever since it was first published in 1740 in Amsterdam, it has enjoyed great renown and was eventually adopted as a basic text for ethical study. Throughout the long history of its publication, Mesillat...
The Complete Artscroll Siddur
Nosson Scherman (Hebrew: נתן שרמן, born 1935, Newark, New Jersey) is an American Haredi rabbi best known as the general editor of ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications.
Scherman was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where his parents ran a small grocery store. He attended public...
