A compelling and readable account of the four thousand year history of a people that spans the globe and transcends the ages. From the ancient and simple faith of a small tribe to a global religion with adherents in every nation, the path of the Jews is traced through countless expulsions and migrations, the great tragedy of the Holocaust, and the joy of founding a homeland in Israel. Putting the struggle of a persecuted people into perspective, Max Dimont asks whether the tragic sufferings of the Jews have actually been the key to their survival, as other nations and races vanished into obscurity. Here is a book for Jews and non-Jews to enjoy, evoking a proud heritage while offering a hopeful vision of the future.

    Eliezer Berkovits's Faith after the Holocaust - recognized as a classic immediately upon publication - boldly and forthrightly addresses the most theologically fraught question of our times: God's noninterference in the Holocaust. With great honesty, erudition, and philosophical depth, this treatise shows "how man may affirm his faith even when confronted with God's awesome silence."

    They provide a unique bridge with the ancient world & can bring us into peculiarly intimate contact with life in the Roman world.AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Jews Before the RomansHerod & His SuccessorsThreats from Romans, Greeks & ChristiansThe Wars Against the RomansThe Jews in the Late EmpireNoteSome BooksTablesIndex

    This English edition contains 27 short stories and novellas, a literary reimagining which spans 400 years of the history of his old world home, Buczacz:“This is the chronicle of the city of Buczacz, which I have written in my pain and anguish so that our descendants should know that our city was full of Torah, wisdom, love, piety, life, grace, kindness and charity,” begins this epic literary memorial which Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon devoted to his Galician city (in today’s western Ukraine). In the last years of his life, Agnon returned in his fiction to his ancestral hometown in order to re-imagine Buczacz in the days of its greatness. This new collection contains annotated translations of the major stories of A City in Its Fullness, a nuanced and complex picture of the past of one Jewish community.

    

    Over 100 illustrations, many reproductions of historic book plates, diagrams, and charts bring the theories of Kabbalah vividly to life. Students of Kabbalism and anyone interested in esoteric thought will find Kabbalah an essential handbook on the background, doctrines, and applications of this rich and important mystical system.

    Abramovitsh, this work shows the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and explores the history of Yiddish fiction in Russia during the 19th century.

    A new edition of the finest introduction to the Talmud, the greatest document of Judaism, presented in both Hebrew and English.