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Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol
Book Title Author(s) : Solomon ibn Gabirol
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Solomon ibn Gabirol (b. 1021, d. ca. 1058) was a Jewish Neoplatonist philosopher and poet who lived in Spain during the Islamic period. His devotional poetry, featured here, is considered among the best post-canon, and portions of his poetic works have been incorporated into the Jewish liturgy. Howe...Read More

Law, Reason, and Morality, in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Sadia Gaon, Bahya ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides
Book Title Author(s) : Jonathan Jacobs
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The medieval Jewish philosophers Saadia Gaon, Bahya ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides made significant contributions to moral philosophy in ways that remain relevant today. Jonathan Jacobs explicates shared, general features of the thought of these thinkers and also highlights their distinctive contr...Read More

The Fountain of Life
Book Title Author(s) : Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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About Book:Solomon ibn Gabirol, also known as Avicebron, was a Spanish-Jewish poet and philosopher of the eleventh century. This is a translation of a key extract from his major philosophical work, the Fons Vitae, or Fountain of Life. In this text, Gabirol uses a Socratic dialog as a framework to di...Read More

The Joys of Hebrew
Book Title Author(s) : Lewis Glinert
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When do you say mazal tov? What is a get, a golem, a kibbutz, a chalutz? What four plant species are waved during prayers on the harvest festival of Sukkot? You'll find answers to these questions and hundreds of others in this remarkable collection of the best known, most loved Hebrew words and ph...Read More

Reconstructing Ashkenaz: The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250 (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)
Book Title Author(s) : David Malkiel
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Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. David Malkiel offers provocative revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish martyrdom in the First Crusade massacres, th...Read More

The Shambhala Guide to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism
Book Title Author(s) : Perle Besserman
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Jewish mystics from biblical times to the present have explored the hidden secrets of the Torah in quest of a single goal: to lose the self in the Infinite "No-thingness" (Ein Sof) and be at one with God. In language accessible to the layperson, this Shambhala Guide provides a detailed introduction ...Read More

We Jews and Blacks: Memoir with Poems
Book Title Author(s) : Willis Barnstone
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Willis Barnstone's third book of memoirs begins with his childhood and ends with his brother's death in 1987. A central theme is labels - names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. Barnstone speaks as a Jew who has from early in his life shared parallel experi...Read More

 

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