This in-depth psychological study shows how the image of Elijah embodied the hopes of the Jewish people through history, and also throws light on the Elijah figure in Christianity and Islam.

The Prophet Elijah in the Development of Judaism: A Depth-psychological Study (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

History

Wiener, Aharon

World

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<p>Professor Howe has drawn on many different sources, including the materials of the Yiddish press, to trace the historical, cultural, and social experience of the immigrant Jews of New York.</p>

The Immigrant Jews of New York: 1881 to the Present (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Howe, Irving

Historical Study & Educational Resources

This compilation of discourses for Sabbaths and Festal Days is a classic of Jewish religious literature and one of the basic midrashic texts originating in the first five centuries of the Christian era.

Pesikta Rabbati: Homiletical Discourses for Festal Days and Special Sabbaths (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Kahana, R.

Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Moses Mendelssohn, one of the most celebrated figures of the German Enlightenment, is best known for the far-reaching influence he had on the Jewish community throughout the world. Drawing widely on personal letters and documents, including a substantial amount of material previously unavailable in any language, this definitive biography casts new light on this great rationalist and champion of intellectual liberty.

Biographies & Memoirs

Altmann, Alexander

Historical

“Franz Rosenzweig’s The Start of Redemption is one of the few lasting books of our century, a work whose originality transcends the disciplinary limits of philosophy and religion and which must be read by anyone whose concern with the meaning of daily life is urgent and abiding.” —Maurice Natanson, Yale University The Star of Redemption is widely recognized as a key document of modern existential thought and a significant contribution to Jewish theology in the twentieth century. An affirmation of what Rosenzweig called “the new thinking,” the work ensconces common sense in the place of abstract, conceptual philosophizing and posits the validity of the concrete, individual human being over that of “humanity” in general. Fusing philosophy and theology, it assigns both Judaism and Christianity distinct but equally important roles in the spiritual structure of the world, and finds in both biblical religions approaches toward a comprehension of reality.

The Star of Redemption (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Rosenzweig, Franz

This is the first English translation of the 12th-century philosophical and ethical classic that has been a key work in the development of medieval Jewish thought.

The Meditation of the Sad Soul (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Bar Hayya, Abraham

The Book of Direction to the Duties of the Heart (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Pakuda, Bahya Ben Joseph Ibn

This book describes in detail the vicissitudes of Jewish life in the eastern Mediterranean area, showing how Jews were affected by the political, religious, and economic turmoil of the times. Sharf offers a link between the better-known history of the Jews of the Roman Empire and that of the Greek and Turkish communities of the 15th and 16th centuries.

Byzantine Jewry from Justinian to the Fourth Crusade (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Sharf, Andrew

Theology in the Responsa (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Jacobs, Louis

This first systematic study in English of the methods of prayer of the Hasidic mystical community includes the first translations of much of the source material.

Hasidic Prayer (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

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