"The Jewish Prayer Book" or the "Siddur" is of paramount importance in the life of the Jewish people. This unique prayer book by the late Chief Rabbi of the British Empire contains the most comprehensive English commentary and introduction ever published and is recognized as one of the greatest historical works on Jewish liturgy. It is the most complete Siddur in Hebrew and English. Its 1,145 page, printed in large, clear type are divided as follows: The Weekday Service, The Service for Sabbath and Festivals, The Life of Man (Private Prayers and Blessings). This Authorized Daily Prayer Book is indispensable to congregation, library, rabbi, student and layman alike.

Reshit Binah is "the" Hebrew Primer! Used all over the world for learning and teaching to read Hebrew, it is the number one book to have if you are either starting out or brushing up. This is the primer used by many schools, organizations and individuals to teach Hebrew in 5 easy weekly lessons. Starting off with the alef-bet and quickly progressing to words and phrases. By the end of this book you will be able to read Hebrew and Hebrew prayer. Also available in Spanish and Russian translations.

The family observance of the Sabbath, holidays and festivals in the synagogue and home is simply and clearly described in this comprehensive handbook for the Jewish family. This is an excellent reference for those Jewish families striving for home stability and spiritual security and those young parents seeking answers to their many questions about Jewish observance. This volume, covering the complete cycle of the Jewish year, is designed to provide the answers. Here in simple, concise and intimate family style, each holiday is explained. This one volume contains instructions for the needed preparations, roles of mother, father and children, the decorations to prepare, the services to conduct at the table in the home, the songs to sing, the games to play and the stories and poems to read and tell.

This complete English translation of the popular classic known as Ta-amei Ha-Minhagim contains nearly 600 questions and answers dealing with all aspects of Jewish life, and English translation by Rabbi Abraham Matts. The book is divided into 36 themes which touch and shed light upon every vital area of life. The regimen of ritual observance and the sources of Jewish theology from which these customs derive and their reasons are fully discussed.

. The sections have been rewritten to appeal to both non-observant and committed Jews, and to provide clear, in depth information for every level of observance

A best seller since 1958, this newly revised, definitive edition is one item no food lover and cook should be without. Featured are 3,000 mouth- watering recipes--strudels from Austria, borscht from Russia, lebkuchen from Germany... a truly international smorgasbord of easy-to-follow recipes all prepared according to strict dietary laws. This book makes the perfect gift for the new bride... and her mother. This is the cookbook your mother wanted you to have but wouldn't part with

Also available: "The Spice and Spirit of Kosher Passover Cooking." A sequel to the Spice and Spirit, this book contains a variety of delicious and original Passover recipes which combine both quality in taste and strictness in Passover observance.

Henry’s Life as a Tulip Bulb is a beautifully illustrated coffee table book that has a message for all ages. This whimsical tale is a delightful story about growing through unexpected changes. Henry’s story will lead you through the seasons of life. The author, Linda M. Brandt is the only known survivor of a rare brain tumor that incapacitated her for nearly three years. It is from her near death experience that she was inspired to foster “an attitude of gratitude” within her own life. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, teacher or guardian, this is a wonderful story that will help stimulate your child's interest and curiosity about God. The questions, discussions, answers and explanations we leave to you. (ages 5-8)

Bowman presents the sources with a critical historical introduction for the rediscovery of Balkan and Aegean Jewry from the Fourth Crusade to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. The book traces the fortunes of Greek Jews, their contact with co-religionists from Spain, Italy, the Crimea and their interaction with the variegated local populations and endemic conquerors of the region. From the beginning of the 13th century to the 16th century with special chapters on intellectual life, rabbinic interests, mysticism, Greek culture and the social and economic dimension.

"Picture Stories From The Bible" offers, in one volume, all the fascinating stories from the Old Testament...from Adam and Eve to Jonah and the Whale. Arranged in chronological order and portrayed in glorious full color, every story has been checked, edited and approved by the religious leaders who formed the book's editorial Advisory Council. Edited by M.C. Gaines Volume 2, The New Testament is also available.

The first English edition of Kimhi's universally acclaimed Hebrew Grammar is the result of many years of painstaking labor by the distinguished scholar and grammarian, Dr. William Chomsky. Dr. Chomsky's invaluable contribution to Hebrew lexicography is reflected in his work by the fact that he has systematically presented and critically annotated Kimhi's Grammar.

The Cuckoo Clock Castle Of Shir. In this charming book, the author tells of a wondrous event which comes to pass in Shir, a town that is blessed with love and peace. Can a wooden cuckoo bird fly? Can a wooden cuckoo bird get married and have children? All this is possible if you read this book. Author: Michoel Muchnik

This "Haggadah for Children Their Family and Friends" has been written in the hope that it may deepen our children's love for Judaism and Israel. It may be used as a simple guide when conducting a Seder in School, temple, youth organizations or home. The general outline of the traditional Haggadah has been followed but the book has been prepared specifically to serve the interests and needs of the children themselves. In other words, since children's attention spans and their concentration may vary greatly from those of adults, this Haggadah makes it possible to conduct and complete the entire Seder in that period of time. This is our best seller among families with young children, schools and youth organizations where everyone can participate and complete the Seder within those limited blocks of time.

This famous collection of inspiring thoughts conveys the spiritual and ethical richness of the Jewish faith. Offering prose and poetry culled from the great Jewish sages, philosophers, Biblical commentators and many others. A BOOK OF JEWISH THOUGHTS provides provocative reading to both Jew and Non-Jew alike. Its words have a sense of beauty and permanence which serve to sensitize the reader to the unique insights of the Jewish tradition about God, man and the world.

In addition to the narration of his daily life in the camps, Isaac Bourla jotted down the thoughts, impressions and feelings of the young idealistic boy that he was then, the boy who was suddenly taken from one world and transplanted in another completely alien one. Like millions of other people he would never have believed that such a world existed. After the two darkest years of his life he emerged from this hell realizing to just what extent the human conscience can be debased, to what levels of degradation a human being can be led, and how much can be endured to secure one’s survival.

These are more than cookbooks. Each book is a joyful, witty celebration of Cholent, that delicious long-simmering Shabbat stew, full of the lore and history of cholent-making from all over the world. Interspersed are cooking hints and stories that will enhance your own family's culinary adventures. International Cholent, Vegetarian Cholent, and more!

These are more than cookbooks. Each book is a joyful, witty celebration of Cholent, that delicious long-simmering Shabbat stew, full of the lore and history of cholent-making from all over the world. Interspersed are cooking hints and stories that will enhance your own family's culinary adventures. International Cholent, Vegetarian Cholent, and more!

These are more than cookbooks. Each book is a joyful, witty celebration of Cholent, that delicious long-simmering Shabbat stew, full of the lore and history of cholent-making from all over the world. Interspersed are cooking hints and stories that will enhance your own family's culinary adventures. International Cholent, Vegetarian Cholent, and more!

The artistic Hebrew-English Haggadah is richly decorated with drawings, vignettes and full page etchings depicting the story of Exodus. Hebrew text with English translation, including the "Song of Songs of Solomon."

Mother Goose Rhymes For Jewish Children is a delightful volume which contains all the cheer and sing song rhyme style of the original. Coupled with Jewish holiday messages and simple Hebrew words many pre-schoolers will recognize and all will take to heart. Also included is a section dealing with everyday happenings in the child's life--toys, family and friends

Here is important background material, simply presented, on the Jewish view of God, Bible, customs and ceremonies, holidays and festivals, Judaism and Christianity, anti-Semitism, the Jewish view of death. Here, arranged under each section, are the typical questions which children ask, and the kind of answers which are most helpful

Alef Bet Fun has two specific aims: to help children learn the names of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet and to help them learn the sequence of those letters. This book uses many play devices as drills, all with the attempt to accomplish its two main objectives. Children derive great pleasure from the games, dot pictures; mazes, etc. found herein and, at the same time, have their knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet greatly reinforced. Children can use this book on their own, without the active supervision of an instructor.

Let's Read Hebrew is both a reader and activity book which may be used by the child at home as well as in school. It may be used in the Sunday School as well as the first grade of the three-day or five-day Hebrew School. The child who learns from this book may progress at their own pace and easily make up work missed during absence. The child who learned to read Hebrew may find this book an enjoyable means of review. Words are used in the reading drill, and their meanings given not so that a Hebrew vocabulary may be built up (for the words are unrelated) but so that the children know that thay are engaged in a meaningful activity rather than reading only syllables.

A beginning Hebrew alphabet book, selecting the words, pictorial drawings and color combinations aimed specifically to the very young child. The transliteration is incorporated so that parents and teachers, not familiar with Hebrew, can share their children's first experience in learning Hebrew.

Jewish law has evolved throughout the centuries as a mature, complex system with direct bearing on the evolution of law within Christendom. The modifications of Roman law by the Church in the Middle Ages, the covenant law of the American Puritans, and a significant portion of Anglo-American secular law has been derived from and influenced by this older legal tradition. At the same time, because so much of that tradition has been embodied in Hebrew and Aramaic texts, it had remained largely inaccessible to all but Talmudic scholars until the publication of Horowit's work.

"Pirke Aboth" consists of paragraphs on ethical maxims attributed to 65 teachers, Tannaim, covering a period of about two centuries B.C.E. and two centuries C.E. The form and sentiment of these sayings are of such charm and force, that they found their way to the Jewish heart, as no other writing ever has. It is now included in the prayer book, and has been so since the eleventh century. It became a custom to read a chapter on Sabbath afternoons, after the Minhah service, during the summer months. Saul Raskin's beautiful works of art accompany the Hebrew and Yiddish with the English translations.

"Jewish Heroes of the Wild West" has been designed for young readers. Adapted from "Jews Among the Indians" by M.L. Marks, it contains the true stories of four immigrant men who played exciting roles in various aspects of Western development during the nineteenth century. Sigmund Schlesinger became the hero of one of the five major battles fought on the Western plains. Solomon Bibo settled in New Mexico where he became chief of the Acoma Indians pueblo. Solomon Carvalho was the artist for the fifth expedition of John Charles Fremont. Julius Meyer spoke a number of Indian dialects and lived among them for a long time.

The accounts presented here are three of the basic sources for the post war memory of the Holocaust among the Salonikan Jews. They constitute the first official witness of those tragic years supplemented in succeeding years by a continuing current of personal memoirs in half a dozen languages. Yomtov Yacoel was the lawyer for the Community and liaison with the Nazi civilian representatives Dr. Max Merten and Dr. Muller. He maintained contact with Jewish and Christian political leaders in Athens. Dr. Matarasso was the post war physician for the survivors in Salonika. His report includes the earliest eyewitnesses stories of the fate of the Jews in Auschwitz including the medical experiments. An Appendix presents the constitution for the reorganization of the Community issued under German order in 1941.

On March 15, 1943 the first Greek transport left from Salonika and arrived at Auschwitz on March 20th. It was the beginning of the end of Greek Jewery. Among the 2,800 deported Jews was the 15-year old Heinz Kouinio. Wrenched abruptly from a comfortable upper-middle class home, Heinz found himself immersed in the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. Heinz, along with his mother, father and sister, would ultimately survive. What kept him going was his fervent wish that his murdered brethren would be remembered and that their killers would be punished. Heinz kept a diary in which he recorded his experiences. That diary is the basis of this book.

Much has been written about the political, historical, economic and military aspects of Israel and the Middle East. This book deals with ideas. It portrays the key figures, major concepts and crucial events in their confluence as they relate to the ideals that inspired the founding of Israel. Scholarly without being pedantic, the book offers an insight into the making of the modern Jew in Israel and his counterpart throughout the world. It also helps in the understanding of why a State with so little geography and short history should have so many friends and so many enemies.

Danziger's biographical sketches of the primary figures in the ancient rabbinic Judaism continue to hold value and interest for today's readers. Written in engaging narrative style, these essays were among the earliest studies in America to reflect the traditions of German Jewish historical scholarship applied to the formative period of Judaism. His notes reflect a sound reading of Jewish sources. In particular, his chapters on Hillel, Akiva and Judah ha-Nasi illuminate how their sharpness of mind and strength of purpose forged the tools for Jewish survival during the next millennia.

"High Priest of Rebirth" expands the horizons of mystical energy to include the vast divergent fields of science and culture in the modern world. Rabbi Kuk continues to insist on peculiar transcendence of Torah, but the range of the holy, for him, embraces the spheres of human culture and science. To secular life, he adds the feeling of compatibility of all ideals and their metaphysical unity. To religious life, he adds the sense of participating in the "perfection of the world" (shichlul haolam).

The subtitle of "The City Without Jews," A Novel of our Time," remains unfortunately true. Bettauer takes as his subject one of the oldest themes in Jewish history: exile. Exile appears constantly in Jewish literature and history. Written in 1923, the author imagines that anti-Semitism leads Austria to expel all Jews. He describes the expulsion, but does not linger over the suffering, humiliation, and trauma such expulsions have historically caused. Families may be split, and lovers torn from each other, proprietors may be forced to sell their businesses at ridiculously low prices, but Bettauer is less concerned with what happens to any one individual than with taking an idea and carrying to its ultimate conclusion no matter how ridiculous it may seem. This is very much a novel of ideas, not of character. One of the ideas is that the consequences of expulsion are as bad or worse for the country which throws out its Jews as they are for the Jews themselves.

The Talmud, that monumental composition of Jewish law and lore filling twelve folio volumes, is the evolutionary product of compilation that spans about eight centuries. Replete with observations, ethical maxims, beautiful legends, and exegetical explanations, this remarkable work has exerted a powerful influence on Jewish thought through the ages. 'Introduction to the Talmud," considered one of the most comprehensive work of its kind in English, is designed to facilitate the study of an exceedingly intricate subject. Here, in scholarly yet readable form, is an historical and literary introduction to the Talmud and an examination of its component parts, legal hermeneutics, terminology and methodology. This edition is further enhanced by biographical material on commentators, chronological tables, glossaries and indices which will prove helpful even to those already familiar with the "sea of the Talmud."

It is unusual if not unique for an established Catholic Priest to forsake Christianity and convert to Judaism. "So Strange My Path" reveals the inside story of the former Father Kenneth Cox who embarked upon a dramatic spiritual journey to the Jewish faith. The author, Abraham Carmel, vividly describes his agonizing period of doubt, his courage and conviction to deny his former religion, and the many obstacles he had to overcome in order to achieve his spiritual goal. After five years of probation and intensive study, Mr. Carmel was received by the London Beth Din (Court of the Chief Rabbi) as a proselyte. An observant Jew, Abraham Carmel personified the rare rabbinic type of a Ger Tzedek - the proselyte of righteousness - who is admitted into the Jewish faith because of a sincere desire to adopt Jewish values and ideals.

This is a journey through time to a precious Romaniote Greek-Jewish community that no longer exists, destroyed by the Holocaust in 1944. Frozen in time, recorded by one who lived and loved it, the "journey" captures a life that is no more and, until now with the publication of this book, ran the risk of disappearing from memory forever. Edited by Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos and Isaac Dostis.

Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid-an awkward role in which she is more than a servant, but less than a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However, tradition forbids them to wed. How she resolves her love for him and her devotion to her adoptive family unfolds in this profound tale, based on true events in China over a century ago.

Rabbi Levi ben Gersom was one of the foremost Jewish philosophers of the Middle Ages. His work, "The Wars of the Lord," is still studied with interest, not only for its own sake, but also for the influence it exerted on the thinking of Spinoza. In his commentary on Job, Rabbi Levi explains the difficulties of individual passages, and how the argument between Job and his friends develops. The Book of Job deals, primarily, with the problem of injustice in this world, namely, why the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer. This lead of course, to the greater problem of Divine Providence in this world, which in turn is connected with the question of God's omniscience and prescience of events and happenings in this world, as well as with the discussion of the nature of the human soul which is affected by the events an occurrences.

Worship and Ethics not only describes certain key forms of Jewish worship and the character of Jewish ethics, but also demonstrates that in rabbinic Judaism worship has ethical concomitants. The individual and society are not two entities distinct from each other, for it is society which makes the experience of the individual possible. And, in the author's words, "We regard ethics not as a system thought out by a philosopher but as a pattern of concepts developed by society." In rabbinic Judaism, complex society is thought of as organic, maintaining stability while allowing full scope to individual personalities. This is made possible by supplying a pattern of common value concepts, represented by such conceptual terms as God's love, Torah, charity, and repentance, all of which are elements of a basic vocabulary. Both worship and ethics are shown to be governed by Halakah-Jewish law. In the merging of these two spheres the "normal mystical" experience of God is achieved, a religious experience available to the common man and woman.

Who Crucified Jesus and The impact of the Crucification on Christian civilization, world history and the Jewish people. Over the centuries, this controversial question has troubled the world and has been a source of dispute and debate. And, throughout the ages, the Jewish people, unjustly accused of deicide, has carried the burden of the Crucifixion. Dr. Zeitlin refutes this accusation with authoritative and well documented arguments. In a lucid, objective presentation of legal and historical evidence, this illuminating book makes it clear that the Jews were not responsible for the death of Jesus. The crucifixion is discussed in terms of its centrality in Christian civilization, its meaning for world history, and its impact on the Jewish people.

The Book of Proverbs which most uniquely represents all characteristics of "The Wisdom Literature" in the Bible is here presented for the first time in two categories: 1) The Proverbs are arranged by topic, 2) The complex text of The Book of Proverbs, is offered in a new and modern translation with a resume preceding each chapter. The message of the book is emplified by its chapter headings: On Man Himself, On Man and Man, On Man and God, and Selected Quatrains in Modern Idiom.

Basic Hebrew is the product of over 25 years of experience with classes at the Herzliah Hebrew Teachers Institute, the City College of New York and Columbia University. There are over 1,300 Hebrew words and expressions appearing in this text which form the very useful and necessary foundation on which to build. Each lesson builds on the previous to include grammatical structure and vocabulary. Progress from beginner to advance with one text book - Verb tables and Hebrew-English dictionary in the back of the book for reference.

The poet, Lisitzky, gives us some explanation of his humble silence in this autobiography. Rich in sadness and beauty, Lisitzky limns with great artistry his wretched youth, and sketches somber portraits of orphan hood, poverty and melancholy. With a kind of lustful glee and self inflicted pain of a person shedding the burden of many years that has subdued his tongue and pen, he bares the dark sides of his soul, the sense of inferiority deeply rooted in him since early youth because of his humble origins, even as he tells of the ambition to elevate himself which he harbored in his heart, to blot out his "disgrace." He describes the humiliations and setbacks that from the start imbued him with a wrath and desperation which remained with him until, at the age of sixteen, he left his town in White Russia to find refuge in the land of his father's sojourning, the United States. These childhood impressions which Lisitzky described so well when he grew to maturity gave a dark tinge to his poetry, which fisrt blossomed in a remote Canadian village, and which has since flowered and grown profusely. Lisitzky's poetry is wide in range, diverse in form. It includes lyrical meditation, odes and sonnets, a massive lyrical drama, narratives of Jewish and general content, an epic of American Indian lore and a variety of Negro spirituals.

The use of Yiddish today is a learned skill and the grasp of any literary text is at best tenuous. Books generations-old may also be unfortunately and unfairly judged within contemporary parameters of critique and literary studies. For many new dedicated Yiddish readers the burdens of "modern analysis" could set impossible obstacles in the understanding and enjoyment of these sonten in Yiddish. Berl Lapin painstakingly undertook the immense task of translating William Shakespeare's Sonnets into this Yiddish work of poetry. This Yiddish/English volume was awarded the National Poetry Prize by the Jewish Book Council.

This book is a Jews for Judaism guide, written primarily to counteract the missionary's thrust directed at the Jew. It is aimed at the mind and heart of Jews who have an interest in or an attraction to Christianity. Jews needing help when sadly confronted with a loved one who would desert his or her heritage will find this work filled with treasure. In addition, devoted Jews and, indeed, non-Jews who are curious about Judaism's answers will fiind these pages fascinating. EXPOSED ARE THE ERRORS OF THE MISSIONARIES THATARE HEAPED UPON UNINFORMED JEWS, AND STRENGTHENED ARE THE FOUNDATIONS BLOCKS OF JUDAISM GIVEN US BY GOD. Judaism's eternal sacredness is revealed using passages from both Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. The holy quotations presented prove that a Jew's conversion to Christianity cannot be justified to himself or to God.