Best of
Judaica

1973

A Passion for Truth


Abraham Joshua Heschel - 1973
    In this work Heschel explores despair and hope in Hasidism as he experienced it himself through study of the Baal Shem Tov and the Kotzker.

Faith After the Holocaust


Eliezer Berkovits - 1973
    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."

A City in Its Fullness


S.Y. Agnon - 1973
    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.

Revolution in Judaea: Jesus and the Jewish Resistance


Hyam Maccoby - 1973
    A compelling, engrossing study of the historical Jesus views him as a leader of the Jewish resistance against the Roman Occupation who became transformed through the Gospels into a divine being

Window on Mount Zion


Pauline Rose - 1973
    She found a house with a plot of land on desolate Mount Zion and made it bloom, all under the sights of the Jordanian guns. Vine of David presents Window on Mount Zion, a new edition of Pauline Rose's inspiring story of restoring a home on Mount Zion, planting a garden, and surviving the Six-Day War.

A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century


Dan Miron - 1973
    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.

Arminius Vambery: His Life and Adventures (1886)


Ármin Vámbéry - 1973
    Written by Himself. With Portrait and 14 Illustrations. Square Imperial 16mo, cloth extra, 6s."A most fascinating work, full of interesting and curious experiences."—Contemporary Review."It is partly an autobiographic sketch of character, partly an account of a singularly daring and successful adventure in the exploration of a practically unknown country. In both aspects it deserves to be spoken of as a work of great interest and of considerable merit."—Saturday Review.

Invitation to the Talmud: A Teaching Book


Jacob Neusner - 1973
    A new edition of the finest introduction to the Talmud, the greatest document of Judaism, presented in both Hebrew and English.