Product Description: Book by Agus, Jacob Bernard

Product Description: Book by Belin, David

Product Description: “‘A covenantal vision of life, with mitzvah (divine commandment) as the central organizing principle in the relationship between Jews and God, liberates the intellect and the moral will. I seek to show that a tradition mediated by the Sinai covenant can encourage the development of a human being who is not afraid to assume responsibility for the ongoing drama of Jewish history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Focusing on the thought and work of Reb Mendl of Kotzk and Soren Kierkegaard the author probes modern man's quest for truth

Gathers essays about Jewish heritage, traditions, rituals, Israel, anti-Semitism, prayer, synagogues, and Judaism and democracy

Describes the destinctive qualities of Judaism, explains how it differs from other major world religions, and sketches Judaism's history

Discusses the philosophy of Judaism, the role of reason, Jewish election, the personality of God, ethics, and the messianic aspects of Judaism

Product Description: The Dynamics of Judaism: A Study in Jewish Law

Product Description: This is both a history of Jewish bilingualism and a plea for an end to the Hebrew-Yiddish quarrel over a single genuine Jewish language. Niger was the greatest Yiddish literary critic of his day. Contents: Introduction: Jewish Bilingualism, Then and Now; Latin and Hebrew, Italian and Yiddish; Greek and Chinese Bilingualism; Armenian and Welsh Bilingualism; Early Jewish Bilingualism: Hebrew and Aramaic; Literary Bilingualism; The Development of Early Hebrew-Yiddish Bilingualism; The Bilingual Literature of Jewish Mysticism, Morality, and Chasidism; The Bilingual Literature of the Jewish Enlightenment; Early Jewish Bilingualism in America; The Tshernovits Language Conference of 1908 and the Question of Jewish Bilingualism; Extremism and Bilingualism in the Zionist and Socialist Movements; The Influence of Soviet Russia and the Land of Israel on Jewish Bilingualism; Jewish Bilingualism: Traditions, Problems, Prospects...read more

Product Description: Book by Neher, Andre

Looks at the issues facing Judaism today, the religious significance of Israel, divisions between Orthodox and secular Jews, and the quest for peace

Product Description: This work describes how four thinkers -- Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Camus, and Voegelin -- were able to confront secular messianism and find the means of overcoming it so that what they eventually formulated was, essentially, a form of philosophic Christianity.

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