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By Sachar, Howard M.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, Hardcover,831pp., ISBN: 0375414975, $40.00 In this monumental and complex narrative, successor to his distinguished 1958 The Course of Modern Jewish History (substantially revised in 1990), Sachar, generally acknowledged as the preeminent scholar of modern Jewish history, proves himself to be not only a superb historian, but a compelling storyteller. More
By Samuel, Maurice
Simon & Schuster, 1986, Paperback, 344 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0689707096 A reissue of a book originally published in the 1940s. More
By Sandmel, Samuel
Oxford University Press, 1973, Hardcover, 314 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0195015908 A very readable book, it explains how the Bible was created; many of the nuances of the words used by the writers of the Bible; how the customs of the people are reflected in the Biblical stories; and the historical implications that are suggested. By Schaeder, Grete, Noah Jacobs (Trans.)
Wayne State University Press, 1973, Hardcover, 503 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 081431483X Translated from German. More
By Schappes, Morris (Ed.)
Citadel Press, 1950, Hardcover, 762 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0805204881 This book represents the product of years of intensive research in an area of American historiography, so far sadly neglected by most writers, it is the first compilation of a source book of American Jewish history. More
By Schauss, Hayyim
Shocken Books, 1995, Paperback, ISBN: 0805209379, $15.00 Why is the Jewish New Year designated on the Jewish calendar as the first day of the seventh month, and not of the first month? More
By Scheffler, Israel, Seymour Fox, Daniel Marom (Eds.)
Cambridge University Press, 2003, Paperback, 352pp, ISBN: 0521528992, $26.00 This groundbreaking book illustrates the translation of educational ideas into practice and reports on a sustained effort to articulate such ideas as embodied in a particular school's ongoing activities. More
By Scheindlin, Raymond
Oxford University, 2000, Paperback, 288 pp., ISBN: 0195139410, $15.95 Raymond Scheinlin is an observant Jew, but his book is not a history of the Jewish religion. More
By Schiffman, Lawrence
KTAV , 1997, Paperback, 777 pp., ISBN: 088125455X, $36.88 This is a concise, beautifully organized historical overview of Second Temple Judaism which demonstrates how the religion of the Talmudic rabbis developed from the religion of biblical Israel. More
By Schmidt, Sarah and Horace M. Kallen
Carlson Publishers, 1995, Hardcover, 210 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0926019783
By Schnapper, Dominique, Arthur Goldhammer, (Trans.)
University of Chicago Press, 1983, Hardcover, 182 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0226739104 Jews have lived in the region that would become France since the time of the Roman Empire. More
By Schniedewind, William M.
Cambridge University Press, 2004, Hardcover, 258 pp, ISBN: 0521829461, $29.99 This book combines recent archaeological discoveries in the Middle East with insights culled from the history of writing to address how the Bible first came to be written down and then became sacred Scripture. More
By Schwartz, Regina
University of Chicago, 1997, Hardcover, 228 pp., ISBN: 0226741990, $20.66 Schwartz (English/Northwestern Univ.) has written a strange, discomfiting book on the Bible's legacy of violence. More
By Schwartz, Seth
Princeton University Press, 2004, Paperback, 336 pp., ISBN: 0691117810, $21.95 This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. More
By Schweitzer, Rabbi Peter H.
Center for Cultural Judaism, 2003, Pamphlet, $12.00, available through The Center for Cultural Judaism This Haggadah poses one major question that most other haggadot do not ask. More
By Scult, Mel
Wayne State University Press, 1994, Paperback, 434 pp., ISBN: 0814322808, $19.95 Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century is the first critical examination of the early life of Mordecai Kaplan - the sources of his inspiration, the evolution of his thought as a religious ideologue, and his inner struggles. More
By Seeskin, Kenneth
State University of New York Press, 1990, Paperback, 246 pp., ISBN: 0791401057, $22.95 Seeskin tackles a problematic notion that an inquiry can be both Jewish and philosophical. More
By Seeskin, Kenneth
Oxford University Press, 1999, Hardcover, 264 pp., ISBN: 019512846X, $55.00 Monotheism is usually considered Judaism's greatest contribution to world culture, but it is far from clear what monotheism is. More
By Segev, Tom
Owl Books, 1998, Paperback, 384 pp., ISBN: 0805058966, $17.00 First published in 1986 in Israel, Tom Segev's book excited controversy by suggesting that the founders of the Jewish state courted war in 1948 by refusing to negotiate in good faith with Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. More
By Seid, Rabbi Judith
Citadel Press, 2001, Hardcover, 226 pp., ISBN: 0806521902, $19.95 This is a handbook for Jews looking for creative and meaningful new ways to express their own way of being Jewish. More
By Seid, Rabbi Judith
Kopinvant Secular Press, Pamphlet , $8.00 The secularist Jewish movement is at a crucial point in its development. More
By Seid, Rabbi Judith
Kopinvant Secular Press , Out of print
By Seigel, Jerrold
Penn State Press, 1993, Paperback, 451 pp., ISBN: 0271009357, $27.00
By Seltzer, Robert M.
Prentice Hall, 2003, Paperback, 873 pp., ISBN: 9780024089403, $108.20 This comprehensive analytic text provides a broad overview of the Jewish experience from the ancient period to the present. In addition to focused examinations of foundational texts, major figures, and critical themes and junctures in the history of Jewish civilization, the book can be profitably used as a vehicle to introduce students to field of Judaica scholarship and college preparatory study. More
By Seltzer, Robert M. and Norman J. Cohen (Eds.)
New York University Press: Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History Series, 2002, Paperback, ISBN: 0814780016, $20.50 How has Judaism, a religion defined by its minority status, attained equal footing with Catholicism and Protestantism in dominating modern American religious life? More
By Serling, Elaine
Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations, Pamphlet , $12.00 Original music and lyrics written by the former music director of the Birmingham Temple School celebrating Jewish holidays, Israel, and activities in the classroom or at home. By Serling, Elaine
Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations, Audio Cassette, $10.00 This audio cassette of music and lyrics will complement and stimulate learning through participation and involvement of students By Shafir, Gershon and Yoav Peled
Cambridge University Press, 2002, Paperback, 412 pp., ISBN: 0521796725, $26.95 This penetrating and timely study by two well-known scholars offers a theoretically informed account of the political sociology of Israel. More
By Shandler, Jeffrey (Ed.)
Yale University Press, 2002, Hardcover, 496 pp., ISBN: 0300092776, $45.00 "Perhaps this autobiography will change the course of my life. This is something new for me. I have never before examined my life seriously" - from the autobiography of "Esther," nineteen years old, written in 1939. More
By Shane, Dr. Paul G.
The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, 1998, Booklet, 92 pp. This book is an attempt to set out some information about the development of Shabbes and its history of meaning and observance. More
By Shaughnessy, Mary Rose
Gordon Press Publishers, 1975, Hardcover, 356 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0879684542 A thoroughly researched work on the literature and life of American writer, Edna Ferber. More
By Shepherd, Naomi
Harvard University Press, 1998, Paperback, 352 pp., ISBN: 0674704118, $15.95 Why, in the late nineteenth century, did Jewish women suddenly march into the pages of radical history? More
By Shimoni, Gideon (Ed.)
Facts on File Inc., 1987, Hardcover, 254 pp., ISBN: 0816014736, $12.60 Including essays by Moshe Davis and Mervin F Verbit, Reprint of edition published by Markus Wiener in 1985. By Shneer, David
Cambridge University Press, 2004, Hardcover, 310 pp., ISBN: 0521826306, $50.00 Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture gives voice to the Soviet Jewish activists empowered by the state to create a Soviet Jewish national culture. More
By Shneer, David and Caryn Aviv (Eds.)
Routledge, 2002, Paperback, 304 pp., ISBN: 0415931673, $22.95 Of all the major religions, Judaism is arguably the most welcoming of gays and lesbians. More
By Shoham, Reuven
Brill Academic Publishers, 2003, Hardcover, 360 pp., ISBN: 9004127399, $135.00 This book discusses the image of the prophet and the role of prophecy in modern Hebrew poetry. More
By Sholem Community Organization of Los Angeles
Pamphlet, $5.00
By Sholom Aleichem Club of Philadelphia
Sholem Aleichem Club Press, 1975, Pamphlet, 62 pp., $11.00 Jewish culture has been expressed in many languages. Chief among these are Hebrew and Yiddish, and both have been used in this Haggadah. More
By Sholom Aleichem Club of Philadelphia
Sholem Aleichem Club Press, Audio Cassette, $10.00 Audio cassette for above Haggadah. By Sholom Aleichem Club of Philadelphia
Sholem Aleichem Club Press, Pamphlet and tape, $15.00 Cassette and printed Haggadah packaged together. By Silberschlag, Eisig
Cornell University Press, 1968, Hardcover, 209 pp., Out of print The first study in English of the major Hebrew poet. More
By Silberstein, Laurence
Routledge, 1999, Paperback, 288 pp., ISBN: 9780415913164, $28.95 Postzionism is a term increasingly used in Israeli public culture to refer to those who challenge zionism's hegemony. This is the first book to discuss and analyze the debates over post-zionism that go to the heart of Israeli national identity and culture. More
By Silberstein, Laurence (Ed.)
New York University Press, 2000, Paperback, 368 pp., ISBN: 0814797695, $20.00 In his opening remarks, Silberstein (Jewish studies, Lehigh U.) reflects on the current trend of viewing identity as a mapping process of becoming rather than a fixed construct to be traced. More
By Silver, Mitchell
University of Massachusetts Press, 1998, Paperback, ISBN: 1558491805, $17.95 This book provides a philosophical rationale for maintaining a Jewish identity and explains how this can be done without compromising one's liberal or secular values. More
By Silverman, Robert
Symposium Press, 1995
By Simon, Leon
Jewish Publication Society , 1960, Hardcover, 348 pp., Out of print Originally published by the Zionist Federation of Great.Britain & Ireland in 1928. More
By Singer, I.B.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996, Paperback, 256 pp., ISBN: 0374524793, $14.00 As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray are divided between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. More
By Slezkine, Yuri
Princeton University Press, 2004, Hardcover, 344 pp., ISBN: 0691119953, $29.99 A professor of history at UC-Berkeley, Slezkine plays a delicate game here. More
By Slobin, Marc (Ed.)
University of California Press, 2001, Paperback, 268 pp., ISBN: 0520227182, $19.95 Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. More
By Slobin, Mark
University of Illinois Press, 1995, Paperback, 256 pp., ISBN: 025206562X, $23.95 This is a well-deserved look at the musical world of immigrant Jews, who, in finding and creating an expressive medium for self-identity, helped shape and give life to American popular culture. More
By Smith, Anthony D.
University of Nevada Press, 1994, Paperback, ISBN: 0874172047, $17.95 Smith first focuses on the ethnic past of nations while also pointing out the differences between ethnic groups and modern nations. More
By Smith, Anthony Douglas and John Hutchinson (Eds.)
Oxford University Press Series: Oxford Readers Series, 1997, Paperback,448 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0192892746
By Smith, Charles
Bedford Books, 2004, Paperback, 567 pp., ISBN: 0312404085, $45.75 The intense emotions generally aroused by this conflict are avoided here in a remarkably even-handed analysis. More
By Smith, Steven B.
Yale University Press, 2003, Hardcover, 230 pp., ISBN: 0300100191, $35.00 Spinoza's cryptic concepts are difficult to categorize. More
By Smith, Steven B.
Yale University Press, 1997, Paperback, 270 pp., ISBN: 0300076657, $19.00 Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) - often recognized as the first modern Jewish thinker - was also a founder of modern liberal political philosophy. More
By Sorkin, David
Oxford University Press, 1999, Paperback, 288 pp., ISBN: 0814328288, $19.95 David Sorkin here argues that emancipation and the encounter with German culture and society led not to assimilation but to the creation of a subculture that was the source of German Jewry's preeminent contribution to Jewish and German culture. By Sorkin, David Jan
University of California Press, 1996, Hardcover, 214 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0520202619 Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the premier Jewish thinker of his day who was recognized, in the phrase "from Moses unto Moses there was none like Moses," as the legitimate successor to the medieval Moses Maimonides. More
By Soyer, Daniel
Wayne State University Press, 2002, Paperback, 242 pp., ISBN: 0814330320, $19.95 How did the vast number of Jewish immigrants from different regions of Eastern Europe form their American ethnic identity? More
By Spinoza, Baruch, Edwin Curley (Ed. and Trans.)
Princeton University Press, 1994, Paperback, 320 pp., ISBN: 0691000670, $24.95 This anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632- 1677) presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the Ethics, in what is now the standard translation by Edwin Curley. More
By Spinoza, Baruch, G.H.R. Parkinson (Ed. and Trans.)
Oxford University Press, 2000, Paperback, 368 pp., ISBN: 0198752148, $14.95 Spinoza's Ethics is one of the classical texts of philosophy. More
By Spinoza, Baruch, Samuel Shirley (Trans.) and Steven Barbone, Lee Rice, Jacob Adler (intro and notes)
Hackett Publishing, 1995, Hardcover, 404 pp., ISBN: 0872202755, $34.95 Samuel Shirley's splendid new translation, with critical annotation reflecting research of the last half-century, is the only edition of the complete text of Spinoza's correspondence available in English. More
By Spinoza, Baruch, Samuel Shirley (Trans.), Michael Morgan (Ed.)
Hackett Publishing, 2002, Hardcover, 1008 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0872206203 The only complete edition in English of Baruch Spinoza's works, this volume features Samuel Shirley's preeminent translations. More
By Spinoza, Benedict de, R.H. Elwes (Trans.)
Dover, 2004, Paperback, 390 pp., ISBN: 0486437221, $9.95 Two important works by one of philosophy's most original and penetrating thinkers appear in this volume. More
By Sprinzak, E. and L. Diamond (Eds.)
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., Library Binding, 392 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 1555873804
By Stanislawski, Michael
University of Washington Press, 2004, Paperback, 209 pp., ISBN: 0295984163, $18.95 This book examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history. More
By Stanislawski, Michael
Jewish Publication Society, 1983, Hardcover, 246 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0827602162
By Stanislawski, Michael
University of California Press, 2001, Paperback, 282 pp., ISBN: 0520227883, $19.95 Michael Stanislawski's provocative study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de siecle and early Zionism. More
By Stavans, Ilan (Ed.)
Schocken, 2005, Hardcover, 480 pp., ISBN: 0805242287, $27.50 The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 gave rise to a series of rich, diverse diasporas that were interconnected through a common vision and joie de vivre. More
By Steinberg, Milton
Behrman House, 1996, Paperback, 477 pp., ISBN: 0874411033, $16.95 The magnificent work of modern fiction that brings the age of the Talmud to life is a historical novel about ancient sage-turned-apostate Elisha ben Abuyah in the late first century C.E. More
By Sternberg, Meir
Indiana University Press, 1985, Paperback, Out of print, ISBN: 0253345219 Sternberg has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly avowed faith stance from which he understands and interprets the strategies of the Biblical narratives. By Stewart, Matthew
W.W. Norton, 2006, Hardcover, 320 pp., ISBN: 0393058980, $25.95 According to Nietzsche, "Every great philosophy is... a personal confession of its creator and a kind of involuntary and unperceived memoir." More
By Stillman, Norman
Varda Books, 2001, Paperback, 654 pp., ISBN: 08267607652, $30.00 Norman A. Stillman continues the saga he so eloquently began in his first volume, The Jews of Arab Lands, up through the dramatic events of the twentieth century. More
By Stratton, Jon
Routledge, 2000, Paperback, 352 pp., ISBN: 0415222087, $33.95 Coming Out Jewish explores the idea of 'Jewishness' as a problem of racial/ethnic identity in the modern and post-modern world. More
By Strum, Philippa
Harvard University Press, 1984, Hardcover, 536 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0674539214
By Sutcliffe, Adam
Cambridge University Press, 2005, Paperback, 358 pp., ISBN: 0521672325, $27.99 This study investigates the philosophical and political significance of Judaism in the intellectual life of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe. More
By Syrkin, Marie
Victor Gollancz, 1947, Hardcover, 361 pp., ISBN: 0827600860 The theme of this book is the epic struggle for survival waged by the Jews of Europe and Palestine since 1939. More
By Syrkin, Marie
Herzl Press and New Republic Books, 1980, Out of print
By Syrkin, Marie
Black Sparrow Press, 1979, Hardcover, 108 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0876854684 A collection of poems, by Marie Syrkin - the widow of the poet Charles Reznikoff, written over a period of sixty years reflecting the author's life experience. More
By Syrkin, Marie
Herzl Press, 1961, Hardcover, 332 pp., Out of print
By Syrkin, Marie
New Republic Books, 1980, Hardcover, 368 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0915220601 An evolving account of the Jewish experience since the Holocaust.
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