Confessions of a Rabbi by Jonathan Romain
24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
The life of a congregational rabbi is often seen as an ivory-tower existence - full of prayers and piety - but Jonathan Romain's has radically departed from that image. Virtually no one has ever asked him about their spiritual life and instead he has dealt with a rollercoaster of crises, emotional traum ...Show more
Bewilderments by Aviva Gottleib Zornberg
34.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Now in paperback, a masterly analysis of the book of Numbers, the newest volume in the award-winning series of commentaries on the Hebrew Bible by "a celebrated biblical scholar, keen on on weaving together traditional Jewish exegesis, psychoanalysis, and postmodern criticism" (The New York Times Book R ...Show more
The Netanyahu Years by Ben Caspit, Ben Caspit translated by Ora Cummings
44.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office. Caspit covers a wide swa ...Show more
The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine
65.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: The Modern Age is the Jewish Age--and we are all, to varying degrees, Jews. The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it underscores Yuri Slezkine's provocative thesis. Not only have Jews adapted better than many other groups ...Show more
The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen by Paul Schilperoord
49.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
The astonishing biography of Josef Ganz, a Jewish designer from Frankfurt, who in May 1931 created a revolutionary small car: the Maikafer (German for "May bug"). Seven years later, Hitler introduced the Volkswagen. The Nazis not only "took" the concept of Ganz's family car-their production model even e ...Show more
Survivors of the Holocaust by Kath Shackleton
19.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
An extraordinary, beautifully illustrated graphic novel that looks at the horrors of the Holocaust through the eyes of children and young people who lived through it. Based on a series of a BAFTA-nominated animated documentaries, the artwork in Survivors of the Holocaust has been reinvented to bring to ...Show more
A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain by Chris Lowney
24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders on a daily basis--sharing irrigation canals, bathhouses, municipal ovens, and marketplaces. Medieval Spaniards introduced Europeans to paper manufacture, Hi ...Show more
Essays on Ethics by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
47.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Why was Abraham ordered to sacrifice his son? Was Jacob right in stealing the blessings? Why were we commanded to destroy Amalek? What was Moses' sin in hitting the rock? And how did the Ten Commandments change the Jewish people, and humankind, for good? Essays on Ethics is the second companion volume ...Show more
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman
69.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Presents an assessment of Israel's state-sponsored assassination programs that evaluates the protective beliefs that are instituted into every Israeli citizen, the role of assassination in the state's history, and the ethical challenges of Israel's policies on targeted killings.
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century by James Loeffler
64.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A stunningly original look at the forgotten Jewish political roots of contemporary international human rights, told through the moving stories of five key activists The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and t ...Show more
Judaism Beyond God by Sherwin Wine; Adam Chalom (Editor, Afterword by, Foreword by)
25.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
Judaism Beyond God presents an innovative secular and humanistic alternative for Jewish identity. It provides new answers to old questions about the essence of Jewish identity, the real meaning of Jewish history, the significance of the Jewish personality, and the nature of Jewish ethics. It also descri ...Show more
From Head to Toe (PB) by Eric Carle
17.42 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Carle, Eric | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
From the creator of such beloved classics as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon comes this interactive story that invites kids to imitate animal movements. Watching giraffes bend their necks or monkeys wave their arms is fun, but nothing could be better than joining in. From their heads down ...Show more