🦃 Cozy up with autumn reads! Let our AI Librarian pick your perfect fireside book 🍁
Explore the literary world of this author
The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought
The story of the origins and development of a Jewish form of secularism Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary ...
To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided politi...
From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America
Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce's hip eroticism to Woody Allen's little man with the big lib...
The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians
"A wonderful, rich, and fascinating book, and a great read. Biale explores the meanings of blood within Jewish and Christian cultures from the blood o...
Master of the Kabbalah
A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zioni...
Kabbalah and Counter-history
Through a lifetime of passionate scholarship, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) uncovered the "domains of tradition hidden under the debris of centuries" an...
A New History
A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movement Hasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles...
...
Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the ...
Cabale Et Contre-Histoire
This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These pi...