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Back in print by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies are unequalled compilations of Bible, Talmud, prayer, poetry, and folklore. The volumes mine Bible, Talmud, midrashim, and a rich variety of other sources, including works by prominent authors.

Back by popular demand, the classic JPS Holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. The Purim Anthology recounts the origins of the first Purim, then examines festival observances in different eras throughout the world, laws and rites, and finally provides plays and poems, stories and songs.

Describes the varied experiences of the Jewish Passover throughout the lands and the ages: the story, the many facets of its celebration in the Jewish home and community, the laws and the prayers, the seder plate and the songs, the art and the dances, the prayers and - of course - the games.

Delves into the stories and messages of Hanukkah as they have unfolded in Jewish literature over the past two thousand years: biblical intimations of the festival, post-biblical writings, selections from the Talmud and midrashim, excerpts from medieval books, home liturgies, laws and customs, observances in different nations, stories and poems, art, and recipes.

Back by popular demand, the classic JPS Holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Drawing on Jewish creativity from hundreds of sources and describing Yom Kippur observances in various lands and eras, The Yom Kippur Anthology vividly evokes the vitality of this holiday throughout history and its significance for the modern Jew.

Back by popular demand, the classic JPS Holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. The Sukkot and Simhat Torah Anthology offers new insight into the Festival of Ingathering and the Festival of Rejoicing in the Law by elucidating the two festivals' background, historical development, and spiritual truths for Jews and humankind.

Back by popular demand, the classic JPS Holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. The Sabbath Anthology delves into one of the earliest Jewish institutions - the holiday the prophet Isaiah characterized as ""the day of delight"" - elucidating its history, laws, customs and traditions, religious and ethical insights, and observances in different eras.

Back by popular demand, the classic JPS Holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. The Rosh Hashanah Anthology is designed to make the religious impact and commemoration of the Jewish New Year meaningful as both a solemn and a festive day. Its significance, history, and messages are embodied in the great treasures of Jewish classical writings.

A major Conservative Movement leader of our time, Elliot N. Dorff provides a personal, behind-the-scenes guide to the evolution of Conservative Jewish thought and practice over the last half century. His candid observations concerning the movement's ongoing tension between constancy and change shed light on the reasoning behind the modern movement's most important laws, policies, and documents.

Examining the entire span of Jewish history by focusing on thirty pivotal moments in the Jewish people's experience from biblical times through the present - essentially the most important events in the life of the Jewish people - Turning Points in Jewish History provides ""the big picture"": both a broad and a deep understanding of the Jewish people's historical experience.

Presents a study of Jewish community in one of the world's most isolated places: the heart of the Peruvian Amazon.

This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut''s classic second volume on the history of the Jewish Reform Movement is a sourcebook of the original writings that shaped the second century of organized liberal Judaism. The Growth of Reform Judaism features a new introduction, a new epilogue, and important additional primary sources documenting the profound changes of the last fifty years.Although the emphasis in this volume is chiefly on the American scene, where the movement had its most notable advances, selections of representative liberal Jewish thought in Europe and to a lesser degree in Israel are included as well. These selections help us to understand the emergence and character, problems and tensions of Reform Judaism as it developed and grew in modern times. In addition to the primary texts new to this edition, David Ellenson''s epilogue considers the developments of the last fifty years that have continued to shape the course of Reform Judaism.Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut (1912-2012) was a longtime rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. The author of more than twenty books on Jewish theology, history, and culture, he is best known for The Torah: A Modern Commentary. Rabbi Jacob K. Shankman (1904-86) was the rabbi of Temple Israel of New Rochelle, New York, and a leader in Reform Judaism. Rabbi Howard A. Berman is the executive director of the Society for Classical Reform Judaism. He lectures at congregations throughout the country on behalf of the society and teaches regularly at Hebrew Union College. Rabbi David Ellenson is chancellor and past president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and is the author of Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice: Studies in Tradition and Modernity (JPS, 2014).

This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut's classic volume on the beginnings of the Jewish Reform Movement is updated with a new introduction by Howard A. Berman. The Rise of Reform Judaism covers the first one hundred years of the movement, from the time of the eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment leader Moses Mendelssohn to the conclusion of the Augsburg synod in 1871.

This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader's dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals.

When the Nazis take twelve-year-old Jan's family away, Jan ventures into the dangerous streets of the city, where he finds refuge in the old Jewish cemetery and the tomb of Rabbi Loewe. Jan travels back in time. Will he find a way to escape from the fate that was to befall a million and a half Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Europe?

Trudi Berger was literally snatched from the flames of the Holocaust. At the age of fourteen her family was confined to a Lithuanian ghetto. A few years later she and her mother were sent off to the camps, suffering forced labour and the ever-present threat of death. This story of courage, determination, and hope is a powerful and moving memoir.

Few rescue missions have succeeded like "Operation Thunderbolt", the Israeli plan led by Yoni Netanyahu on July 4, 1976, to rescue 105 hijacked Jewish passengers held captive in Uganda's Entebbe Airport. In her gripping biography Speregen introduces young readers to one of Israel's bravest soldiers.

The persistence of anti-Semitism is a phenomenon that challenges Jewish historians to make ethical judgments a part of historical analysis. This title provides insight into the complexities of anti-Semitism.

In the race against Nazi Germany to develop the atomic bomb, who would have suspected that a major league baseball player would take a pivotal role? That very man was Moe Berg-masterful catcher, fluent in nine languages, an Ivy League scholar, an attorney, and a secret agent. Moe Berg's exciting life of mystery and intrigue is sure to captivate young readers. Ages 9 and up.

A pioneering work on what it means to ""engender"" Jewish tradition - how women's full inclusion can and must transform our understanding and practice of Jewish law, prayer, and marriage. Adler's writing is passionate, sharply intelligent and offers a serious study of traditional biblical and rabbinic texts.

In this collection of essays, we encounter a scholar passionately concerned with the cultural and spiritual renaissance of the Jewish people in its own land, a scholar whose concerns encompass issues of the cultural life, language, the meaning of scholarship, and the religious quest.

In this collection of essays, Dr. Moshe Greenberg stays true to the task of the classical Jewish scholar: to enhance the Bible in the eyes of the faith/cultural community by seeking to set forth existential values embodied in the biblical narratives, laws, and rituals, and pointing to the continuities and transformations of the biblical materials in later Jewish creativity.

This book focuses on the forces, events, and personalities that over the past 150 years have shaped the Jewish communities of the Arab world, changing the relations between Jews and Arabs more radically than anything since the rise of Islam nearly 1400 years ago.

The Shema is the central prayer of the Jewish faith. Focusing on the Shema, this title explores the relationship between spirituality and law in Judaism.

The works of Maimonides, particularly The Guide for the Perplexed, are reckoned among the fundamental texts that influenced all subsequent Jewish philosophy and yet also proved influential in Christian and Islamic thought. Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism elucidates the complex ideas of the Guide in remarkably clear and engaging prose.

Tells the story of Dona Gracia, one of the most remarkable women in Jewish history. This title presents a full-length biography of Dona Gracia in English. It is an epic drama featuring extraordinary characters who risked their lives for freedom of conscience, playing for high stakes among the palaces and political courts of Renaissance Europe.

Uses eight questions found in the Bible to explore the human journey from cradle to grave, confronting such important existential experiences and themes as mortality, responsibility, forbidden knowledge, sin, and the afterlife. By interweaving texts from the Bible, commentaries, philosophy, psychology, and literature with his own experiences, Niles Elliot Goldstein also meditates on midlife.

In 2004, Mayer Gruber's landmark "Rashi's Commentary on Psalms" made one of the 11th-century scholar's most important works accessible to a larger audience for the first time. This volume includes the complete original Hebrew text and the English translation and supercommentary.

The streets are eerily empty and everyone in the Jewish community is terrified of Peter the Hermit. His men, the Crusaders, are moving through the town on their way to the Holy Land. They have been known to batter down doors and burn Jewish houses, all in the name of religion. This is not Nazi Germany but Troyes, France, in 1096, as seen through the eyes of funny, feisty, twelve-year-old Elvina.

This JPS ethics series deals with some of the most critical moral issues of our time. Power dynamics affect people on a political level, a social level, and a deeply personal level as well. The newest volume in the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series examines these dynamics and includes essays by contributors such as Henry Waxman, Marc Graboff, and James Diamond.