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A collection of Jewish folktales. It includes tales that have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore.

Presents 71 tales from Ashkenazic culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales. This title includes tales accompanied by commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) collection, and extensive scholarly notes.

The biblical commentaries known as Miqra'ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers.

A guide that chronicles the history of American Jewry. It describes the dramatic 350-years story of the people and events that shaped the lives of American Jews.

Presents an opportunity to heed the call first put forward by the author nearly four decades ago: a call for people of all faiths and cultures to work together to create a world in which everyone can live with dignity and equality - the deserved inheritance of a humanity created in the image of God.

Part of a "JPS Kids' Catalog" series, this title provides how-to's about caring for animals and plants, crafts projects, and ways children can help fix the world. It also provides "Eco-Activities" - growing an avocado tree, making a winter birdfeeder, designing tee shirts with eco-slogans, and more.

Ann Weiss entered a locked room at Auschwitz and came across an archive of over 2,400 photographs brought to the death camp by Jewish deportees from across Europe during the Holocaust. This title features photographs that trace the story of how they arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Provides a critical, line-by-line commentary of the biblical text, presented in its original Hebrew, complete with vocalization and cantillation marks, as well as the 1985 JPS English translation. The extensive introduction places the book within its historical, literary, and critical context, discusses contemporary interpretations of the story of Ruth, and examines its major motifs and themes.

A collection of 33 essays covering the themes of modern Jewish theology, education, the history of Reform Judaism in America, Jewish law, ethics, and religious dialogue. It is suitable for rabbis; scholars; and, readers of religion, modern Jewish thought, and liturgy.

Helps you to learn how stories and customs from the Bible are part of our lives, from the names that we're given (David, Ben, Miriam, Rebecca) to the names of the places where we live (Bethel, Zion, Jericho); from the movies or plays that we watch ("The Prince of Egypt") to the songs that we sing ("Go Down Moses").

A major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence (1288-1344), one of the most creative and daring minds of the medieval world. It is devoted to a demonstration that the Torah, properly understood, is identical to true philosophy.

The "Psalms" have long brought comfort to those who mourn and have helped us find the spiritual in everyday life. This edition presents a translation based on the original Hebrew text, as well as the entire range of "Psalms" interpretation and modern linguistic scholarship.

Mrs Moskowitz and her cat move from their house into a new apartment and feel a little lost. They miss their house, filled with family memories. But then her son brings her a box she left behind, in which she finds a pair of Sabbath candlesticks. The memories of past Sabbaths help her finally to think of the apartment as home.

This is an Edward E. Elson edition translated by Michael Sherbourne. It features seven walking tours of the Jewish areas of this fabled city.

Presents an edition of the author's six stories.

The complex and dramatic story of Joseph is the most sustained narrative in Genesis. Many call it a literary masterpiece and a story of great depth that can be read on many levels. In a lucid and engaging style, Alan T. Levenson brings the voices of Philo, Josephus, Midrash, and medieval commentators, as well as a wide range of modern scholars, into dialogue about this complex biblical figure.

Brings together Arthur Green's scholarly writings, centred on the history of early Hasidism, and his highly personal approach to a rebirth of Jewish spirituality in our own day. In choosing to present them in this way he asserts a claim that they are all of a piece. They represent one man's attempt to wade through history and text, language and symbol, and an array of voices both past and present.

In 1853 Solomon Nunes Carvalho, proud descendant of a Sephardic Jewish family, accepted the invitation of Col. John Charles Fremont to accompany him on his fifth expedition of discovery through the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. Westward with Fremont tells the exciting story of one of the great legendary figures in American Jewish history.

Offering an introduction to the Holocaust, this book presents the origins and history of anti-Semitism, beginning with the year 70 AD, when the Jews were forced out of Jerusalem, to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.

Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as "Superman", "Spiderman", "X-Men", and "Batman", as well as the founders of "MAD Magazine", were Jewish. This title tells their stories and demonstrates how they brought a uniquely Jewish perspective to their work and to the comics industry as a whole.

A collection that offers contemporary tales with modern-day children as the main characters. It includes tales in which spirits are forces for momentous change in the lives of the children who encounter them - helping them to gain new understandings of themselves and their Jewish tradition.

Suitable for students, teachers and rabbis, this title gives an opportunity to get up close and personal with everyone named in the Bible - its patriarchs, matriarchs, and prophets, warriors and peacemakers, holy men and sinners, heroes and villains. It contains biographical information written in narrative style, about all the Bible's characters.

A collection of ten stories by a master of Yiddish literature. It is suitable for children and adults alike.

Part of the "JPS Kids' Catalog" series, this book explains the history and customs of Hanukkah, along with details on the traditional way to light the candles and celebrate the holiday.

Twelve-year-old David takes his basketball along on summer vacation, hoping to find a court and some friends at the beach community. Whatever happens, he knows that he can count on Max, his grandfather. Unexpectedly, David and Max, along with David's new friend Candy, become caught up in a search for a man Max thought had died in the Holocaust.

Invites readers to explore how Jewish practice can be more meaningful through renewing, reshaping, and even creating rituals, such as naming ceremonies for welcoming baby girls, healing services, Miriam's cup, mitzvah days, egalitarian wedding practices, and commitment ceremonies.

A collection that celebrates 23 biblical women, from the familiar Sarah, Miriam, Ruth, and Esther, to the more mysterious Hatzlelponi mother of Samson) and the unnamed "Wife of Ovadiah".

The Bible is an enduring source of inspiration for the human heart and mind, and readers of Thinking about the Torah will be rewarded with an enhanced understanding of this great work's deeper meanings. Drawing on Western philosophy and particularly Jewish philosophy, Kenneth Seeskin delves into ten core biblical verses and the powerful ideas that emerge from them.

K'tontoni - the lovable Jewish "Tom Thumb" - has cast a magic spell on children (and their parents and grandparents) for generations, delighting countless readers of all ages. Now he appears again in K'tonton's Sukkot Adventure, a picture book combining two of Sadie Rose Weilerstein's classic tales with light-hearted, whimsical drawings by award-winning illustrator Joe Boddy.

A brave girl's adventurous journey from Bolshevik Russia to the Zionists settlement in the Holy Land. Sara, a Jewish 12-years-old in 1919 Russia, has spunk, independence, and a deep commitment to her heritage.