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A guide to understanding Jewish traditions. This title comes with ready to answer questions about almost all aspects of Jewish life and practice: life-cycle events, holidays, ritual and prayer, Jewish traditions and customs.

To this day Legends of the Jews remains a most remarkable and comprehensive compilation of stories connected to the Hebrew Bible. It is an indispensable reference on that body of literature known as Midrash, the imaginative retelling and elaboration on Bible stories in which mythological tales about demons and magic co-exist with moralistic stories about the piety of the patriarchs.

As a child, the author and her family were exiled to Siberia for being capitalists, thus inadvertently escaping the Nazis. After World War II, she began collecting the true stories of those who lived and died during the horror of the Holocaust: of Jews in Vilna, in the US, and in Israel. This title presents a collection of 20 true stories.

JPS is proud to reissue Cohen and Mendes-Flohr's classic work, perhaps the most important, comprehensive anthology available on 20th century Jewish thought. This outstanding volume presents 140 concise yet authoritative essays by renowned Jewish figures.

Borowitz creatively explores his theory of Covenant, linking self to folk and God through the contemporary idiom of relationship.

Deals with Muslim-Jewish relations in the United States, Israel, and Europe. This title explains the similarities and differences between Judaism and Islam, the history of Jihad, the legal and religious positions of Jews in the world of Islam, how various expressions of Islam regard Jews, the range of Muslim views about Israel, and more.

A dictionary that contains 1,200 entries derived from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and English. It includes words for and associated with Jewish holidays and life-cycle events, culture, history, the Bible and other sacred texts, worship, and more.

Presents an original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the Masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text.