This book makes some of the central halakhic sources on women accessible to contemporary readers. It covers such topics as marriage, divorce, women's participation in public worship, the laws regarding the menstruant, contraception, abortion, and rape.

The life of any traditional Jew, whether a man or a woman, is guided, even dictated, by the mitzvot (the commandments). The mitzvot encompass almost all conceivable spheres of human activity, and through prohibitions and prescriptions fashion private and public Jewish life, often down to the most minute details. The great majority of the mitzvot apply equally to men and women, from the universal prohibition ``Thou shall not murder,`` to the exacting details of the laws of kashrut and the observance of the Sabbath. Yet there are exceptions to the general rule, and these fall into two categories: those mitzvot which are linked to gender and apply only to men (circumcision) or only to women (laws regarding menstruation), and mitzvot which are not directly related to biological differences yet are ``gender biassed.``

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Contents: The Passover in Biblical Times; In Rabbinic and Medieval Times; Laws and Customs; Seder Customs and Practices; The Services of the Synagogue; The Exodus and its Religious Implications; Freedom.

111 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, 11.5cmX17cm, good condition: pages are clean, binding is tight.

According to Rabbinic calculation the duration of the Israelites` stay in Egypt was 210 years. The fateful events which took place during the last days of this long and harassing period of slavery are vividly described in the early chapters of the Book of Exodus. It was shortly before the day on which the last of the ten plagues was to befall the Egyptians that instructions were issued to prepare for the Passover.

This book geographically explains the complex structure, climate and biology of the South-West Asia area , and suggests some reasons behind the contrast between its conservative economic and dynamic ethnic history. The book has three parts: Systematic Geography; Regional Geography; The Social and Economic Geography of the Separate States. Among the countries mentioned in this book are Israel, Turkey, Iran, Syria; Lebanon, and more.

448 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition: tight and mostly clean pages, underlines and pen notes on the first 10 pages only.

The region thus defined consists in its northern part of a section of the great belt of recently folded mountains which crosses the Old World from Portugal to the East Indies; while its southern portion, the Arabian plateau, is a fragment of the ancient stable block against which the mountain folds were compressed on this side.

Hebrew songs and stories for Pesach. Side 1 - songs, performed by the Zadikov children choir: Aviv Nolad, Nissan, Ma Nishtana, Avadim Hainu, Vehi She'amda, Betzet Israel, Had Gadia, Omer Omer. Side 2 - tales, told by Esther Sofer: Aviv Ba / Levin Kipnis, Haose Niflaot / Y.L. Peretz.

We were ecstatic, my classmates and I, when we heard in 1938 that the black boxer Joe Louis had knocked out the Nazi Max Schmeling for the heavyweight championship of the world. So much fot the `Master Race`!

Bialystok, before the war, with its 120,000 inhabitants, was the same vibrant center of Jewish cultural life it had been for almost three centuries and, as the second biggest textile supplier in Poland, a bustling commercial crossroads. Political movements, associated with reform socialism, Zionism, and revolutionary labor, mingled and vied with the teaching of Torah in the city`s communal life.

A novel about the fate of one Jewish family during the Cossack pogroms in the Ukraine in 1648. Translated from the Yiddish by Rufus Learsi.

227 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, 12.5cmX18.5cm, good condition.

Not a thing could be seen. Everything was enveloped in a cloud of smoke which poured right into the room from the oven, where the fire had just been started. Out of the smoke could be heard the small shrill voice of a little boy straining to keep up with the impatient voice of a man.

The author sets forth the basic information regarding every significant thinker, document, and movement relevany to the history of Jewish philosophy from the Hebrew Bible, Philo of Alexandria, and the rabbis of the Talmudic era, through the great medieval representatives, Saadia, Halevi, Ibn Gabirol, Maimonides, Crescas, Nahmaindes and Gersonides, to modern figures like Moses Mendelssohn, Nahman Krochmal, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Hermann Cohen, and Franz Rosenzweig. At the same time that he presents their doctrines, Guttman indicates their strengths and weaknesses, and makes clear their essential contributions.

Such a process first took place during the Hellenistic period. Judeo-Hellenistic philosophy is so thoroughly imbued with the Greek spirit, however, that it may be regarded, historically speaking, as merely a chapter in the development of Greek thought as a whole. It disappeared quickly without leaving behind any permanent impact upon Judaism.

Milwaukee`s earliest beginnings were commercial: specifically, the American Fur Company`s Indian trade. Its local agent, Solomon Juneau, had received his supplies through the Company`s factors at Mackinac or Detroit.

A German translation to Amos Oz's novel My Michael - Michael Sheli. Translated from the English.

253 pages, mass market paperback, good condition with white, clean and tight pages and binding.

Ich schreibe dies nieder, weil Menschen, die ich geliebt habe, gestroben sind.

The story of Polish Jewry - their origin, history, struggle for survival and tragic end. Table of Contents: A Thousand Years of Jewish History; Poland Restored' The Nazi Timetable; The Warsaw Ghetto; The Ghetto Uprising; The Rubble Fighters; The Last Chapter; Echo of the Ghetto Uprising; The City of Lodz; Czastochowa; Lublin; Bialystok; The Extremination Camps; The Ovens of Birkenau; Slaughter in the East; My City Lrmberg; Wilno; Revolt of the Towns; The Partisans; Partisans in Galicia; The Partisans in Central Poland; The Diary of Justine; Cracow, the Ancient Capital; Visiting Oswiecim; The Jews in Silesia; Hitler's Heritage; Death of a Civilization.

The dawn of history in Poland is enveloped in a mist of fact and fancy. Early history speaks in the winged language of legends. Paradoxical as it may sound, it can be assumed that Jews lived in Poland before there was a Poland.

This collection consists of twenty five talks delivered, at various times and places, before groups of Jewish teen-agers. The stories diverge candidly from the Biblical accounts on which they are based; there is no pretense of scruple about adhering to the biblical text.. The dignity of life, the eradication of sham, and the injunction of Amos that God's wrath is occasioned by man's inhumanity to man are themes that unfold themselves in surprising ways in this book.

Bet there is vastly more than this to the story of Cain. The finest parts of the story are the parts that people seldom hear. Of not a little interest, for example, is the fatal quarrel. About a thousand years after the story of Cain was composed, there were Jewish teachers who believed that the quarrel had something to do with property.

This book chronicles the rise to wealth, power, and prominence of the new and dominant generation on Wall Street: The young, self-made Jewish entrepreneurs of Postwar America. In this richly detailed social history, the book examines the interlocking professional and personal lives of these newest superstars, focusing on three outstanding leaders and their firms: Felix Rohatyn and Lazard Freres; Sandy Weill and Shearson; and John Gutfreund and Salomon Brothers.

444 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: clean, white and tight pages, strong binding, jacket is complete but with some creasings. ISBN 0-316-22285-2,

A selection of 65 poems by Paul Celan: In Egypt; In Front of a Candle; Remembrance; Epitaph for Francois; In the Shape of a Boar; Anabasis; It is not Anymore; In Front of your Late Face; With the Persecuted; Regal Rage; Something will be; and more. Translated from the German by Brian Lynch and Peter Jankowsky.

88 pages, paperback, good condition: pages are white and tight with some foxing on few. ISBN 1851860029.

137 pages, paperback, fair condition: pages are clean and tight but yellowed, the cover is strong but rubbed and shows some wear.

The one primary word is the combination I-Thou.

Color photographs, most of them taken in Israel, accompanied by verses - in both Hebrew and English - from Ecclesiastes.

Sixteen stories involving ethical situations and leading to discussions of right and wrong. Following every story a selection is chosen from the Ethics of the Fathers related to the story. The book was intended to be used by teachers in Jewish schools.

Joel Rissner closed the door of his laboratory and started to walk towards Mr. Leward`s office. He felt as if he were floating through the air. He`d done it! The midget gadget was completed.

This book is a full account of the early history of the Holy Land and adjacent areas. Dr. Moorey tells the intriguing story of how that history was gradually pieced together over the centuries - by the credulous travellers and chroniclers of the Middle Ages through to the Bible scholars of more recent times. He recounts how, as a result of this research, modern archaeologists have been able not only to illuminate the background of the Old Testament but also to reveal the remains of the hitherto little known civilizations of Canaan and Poenicia. The story continues with a close look at these, followed by an account of the Hebrew conquest of Palestine, the sunsequent Hebrew kingdoms, and ends with a consideration of the Persian Empire of Cyrus and Darius up to its destruction by Alexander the Great. With over 180 illustrations.

151 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, 28cm tall, good condition: book pages are white, clean and tight, jacket has tears.

One single question underlies the perpetual fascination of Palestine's history - how did a country so small and ill-blessed by nature come to have so profound an effect on the history of the western civilization, producing both Judaism and Christianity, and playing no small part in the early history of Islam?

זיבן מאל פארדרייט און פארשלאסן די געהאמערטע קופערנע טיר, האב איך דעם קונציקן שליסל מיט איינגעזעגטע שלאנגישע ציינדלעך אוצרדיק באהאלטן אויפן סאמע הארצקלאפ: אין קעשענקע פון אונטערשלאק אין מיין רויטער סאמעטענער קאמיזעלקע.

An illustrated passover haggadah that was given to the guests of the Dan Hotel. The Hebrew text is accompanied by an English translation. The first and last pages of the Haggadah are reproductionsof the Alt-Neu Hagada created by Jerusalem artist Yehoshua Freiman. Calligraphy by artist Gad Freiman.

64 pages, paperback, 17cmX23cm, good condition: one stained page.

The author contends not only that there is no Judeo-Christian tradition but that there is in fact a tradition of theological enmity. This book consists of a group of essays, all of which explore aspects of this theological enmity.

It is my intension in this discussion, first, to set forth the theological foundations upon which the myth is based and to illustrate the forms in which it has been unfolded in Western thought; second, to establish the senses in which the conception of the Judeo-Christian tradition is mythological or, rather, not precisely mythological but ideological and hence, as in all ideologies, shot through with falsification, distortion, and untruth.