Why Jews Do What They Do
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Download Why Jews Do What They Do PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Why Jews Do What They Do book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Why Jews Do What They Do
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Author : Daniel Sperber
language : en
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Release Date : 1999
Why Jews Do What They Do written by Daniel Sperber and has been published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Explanations on the whys and wherefores of many Jewish customs.
Legacy
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Author : Harry Ostrer MD
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-10
Legacy written by Harry Ostrer MD and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-10 with Medical categories.
Who are the Jews--a race, a people, a religious group? For over a century, non-Jews and Jews alike have tried to identify who they were--first applying the methods of physical anthropology and more recently of population genetics. In Legacy, Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist and authority on the genetics of the Jewish people, explores not only the history of these efforts, but also the insights that genetics has provided about the histories of contemporary Jewish people. Much of the book is told through the lives of scientific pioneers. We meet Russian immigrant Maurice Fishberg; Australian Joseph Jacobs, the leading Jewish anthropologist in fin-de-siècle Europe; Chaim Sheba, a colorful Israeli geneticist and surgeon general of the Israeli Army; and Arthur Mourant, one of the foremost cataloguers of blood groups in the 20th century. As Ostrer describes their work and the work of others, he shows that to look over the genetics of Jewish groups, and to see the history of the Diaspora woven there, is truly a marvel. Here is what happened as the Jews migrated to new places and saw their numbers wax and wane, as they gained and lost adherents and thrived or were buffeted by famine, disease, wars, and persecution. Many of these groups--from North Africa, the Middle East, India--are little-known, and by telling their stories, Ostrer brings them to the forefront at a time when assimilation is literally changing the face of world Jewry. A fascinating blend of history, science, and biography, Legacy offers readers an entirely fresh perspective on the Jewish people and their history. It is as well a cutting-edge portrait of population genetics, a field which may soon take its place as a pillar of group identity alongside shared spirituality, shared social values, and a shared cultural legacy.
What Do Jews Believe
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Author : David Ariel
language : en
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date : 1996-01-23
What Do Jews Believe written by David Ariel and has been published by Schocken this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-23 with Religion categories.
A lively exploration of Jewish ideas and beliefs. "Anyone who seeks to know what Judaism is really all about will be in his debt" (David Wolpe, author of Why Be Jewish?). In this fresh and lucid study, Ariel presents the fundamentals of Jewish thought on the profound issues of God, human destiny, good and evil, Torah, and messianism, guiding the reader toward a definition of the beliefs that shape Jewish identity. This lively exploration of Jewish ideas and beliefs provides a rationale and stimulus for anyone seeking to understand or reconnect to the rich and diverse spiritual tradition of Judaism.
What Shall I Do With This People
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Author : Milton Viorst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
What Shall I Do With This People written by Milton Viorst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A critical history of how religious leaders have influenced the practice of Judaism to serve personal conceptions critiques Orthodox Judaism's doctrines concerning marriage and divorce, conversion, and women's rights.
We Jews
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Author : Adin Steinsaltz
language : en
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Release Date : 2005-03-30
We Jews written by Adin Steinsaltz and has been published by Jossey-Bass this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-30 with Religion categories.
We Jews Thirteen million Jews throughout the United States and the world are famously divided and contentious about their identity, political position, social role, and spiritual goals. However, if there is one authentic voice of leadership in the Jewish community, it is scholar, teacher, mystic, scientist, and social critic Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. He is internationally regarded as one of the greatest rabbis of this century and of the last. In We Jews, Rabbi Steinsaltz explores the most important issues that concern Jews today as Jews. He provides wise and uplifting answers to Jews everywhere, whether they are secular and assimilated or orthodox—Are we a nation or a religion? Are the stereotypes of Jews really true? Why are Jews so controversial? How can we navigate the opposing forces of diversity, culture, and politics? Can we survive intermarriage and the loss of tradition? Do we still worship the Golden Calf? In this book, Rabbi Steinsaltz sees causes and consequences, achievements and failures, looks at the contemporary world, and observes the dreams and longings of modern Jewish people. Written as an intimate and inspiring internal memo to the whole Jewish family, We Jews answers these questions and many more in a way that is at once insightful and inspiring.
How The Jews High Jacked History
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Author : Walt Bloom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-08
How The Jews High Jacked History written by Walt Bloom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-08 with categories.
Christians and Muslims account for more than half of our world's population of nearly 8 billion people. Although both Christianity and Islam were derived from Judaism, the number of Jews alive is about 16 million, or roughly 0.2% of the global total. So how has the religion of so few had such a big impact? This book's thoroughly researched, up-to-date answer is based on highly respected sources, including mythologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, biblical scholars, political scientists, and historians - as well as Indologists, Sinologists, and Egyptologists. It may surprise some in its underlying simplicity. Although the answer obviously has to do with the fact that Iron Age ancestors of some of today's Jews authored portions of the Hebrew Bible beginning no later than the 8th century BCE, this book focuses on the fundamental role that Elite Male Dominance has played in both religion and politics since the origin of urban civilization in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE. While acknowledging the centrality of animal sacrifices to all Late Bronze Age religious practices, including human sacrifices to some, it traces the origin of the divergence of the religions spawned in Near Eastern deserts and Indian jungles. It also briefly recounts and compares the relatively irreligious history of China. Among the many potentially challenging and related questions that the author addresses and answers are the following: Who were the Aryans and how did they High-Jack history? Who was the original Prophet of the Apocalypse and how was his religion used both by Darius I of Persia and, later, by all three major religions of the Desert Trilogy? Who were the Brahmins and what did they do in response to the emergence in India of the Shramana sects, including Jainism and Buddhism? When was the heyday of Buddhist influence in China, and why did it begin and end? Who was Akhenaten and how did he disrupt and punctuate the history of Egyptian religion? Who were the Levites and the Zadokites, and how did the Babylonian Captivity serve as the fulcrum for forging the Jewish identity? Who was Saul of Tarsus, and why was he so important in the history of Christianity? What did Christ do for Constantine I of Rome that the Buddha couldn't do for Ashoka of India? Who were the Mamluks and why were they important in the history of Islam? Why was Sigmund Freud so wrong about so much? Why have the Jews attracted such undying hatred? And from his Introduction: "So hang onto your kippahs and your Sunday bonnets, your turbans and your head scarves as I serve as both engineer and conductor on a mostly high-minded ride through the historical landscape of our world's most popular religions. But be prepared. Along the way, I will expose you to a collection of brief his-stories of some of history's biggest, if not best, of Big Shots - which is to say to some of its most compulsively driven seekers of fame and fortune, of recognition and power. And by the time this train of thought pulls into its destination, I promise to have shared some insights both old and new into what I have come to value as the most revealing and powerful ideas about the nature, up until now, of our inherently religious and Elite Male Dominated, human condition."
Genius Anxiety
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Author : Norman Lebrecht
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2020-12-08
Genius Anxiety written by Norman Lebrecht and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin, genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber, there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth. What do these visionaries have in common? They all had Jewish origins. They all had a gift for thinking in wholly original, even earth-shattering ways. In 1847, the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world’s population, and yet they saw what others could not. How? Why? Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent, beautifully designed volume is “an urgent and moving history” (The Spectator, UK) and a celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
The Non Orthodox Jew S Guide To Orthodox Jews
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Author : David Baum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Non Orthodox Jew S Guide To Orthodox Jews written by David Baum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Jewish way of life categories.
The Non-Orthodox Jews Guide to Orthodox Jews offers an all-encompassing view of Orthodox Jews beliefs and actions and explains the issues that non-Orthodox Jews often find puzzling or exasperating. Readers will encounter surprisingly refreshing discussions of topics such as happiness, good and evil, personal integrity, suffering, heaven and hell, prophecy, prayer, charity, economics, feminism, love and sexuality, marriage, evolution, morality, political correctness, assimilation, intermarriage and Zionism. They will also discover that Orthodox Jews are modern, twenty-first-century men and women who embrace the benefits of modern society while affirming and perpetuating an all-important chain that stretches back more than three millennia.
Why The Jews
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Author : Dennis Prager
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Why The Jews written by Dennis Prager and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Religion categories.
From the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism comes a completely revised and updated edition of a modern classic that reflects the dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century. The very word Jew continues to arouse passions as does no other religious, national, or political name. Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why did Hitler consider murdering Jews more important than winning World War II? Why has the United Nations devoted more time to tiny Israel than to any other nation on earth? In this seminal study, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin attempt to uncover and understand the roots of antisemitism -- from the ancient world to the Holocaust to the current crisis in the Middle East. This postmillennial edition of Why the Jews? offers new insights and unparalleled perspectives on some of the most recent, pressing developments in the contemporary world, including: • The replicating of Nazi antisemitism in the Arab world • The pervasive anti-Zionism/antisemitism on university campuses • The rise of antisemitism in Europe • Why the United States and Israel are linked in the minds of antisemites Clear, persuasive, and thought provoking, Why the Jews? is must reading for anyone who seeks to understand the unique role of the Jews in human history.
The Origin Of The Jews
DOWNLOAD
FREE 30 Days
Author : Steven Weitzman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-02
The Origin Of The Jews written by Steven Weitzman and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Religion categories.
The scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish origins The Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea that the Jews have a common origin. Steven Weitzman takes a learned and lively look at what we know—or think we know—about where the Jews came from, when they arose, and how they came to be. He sheds new light on the assumptions and biases of those seeking answers—and the religious and political agendas that have made finding answers so elusive. Introducing many approaches and theories, The Origin of the Jews brings needed clarity and historical context to this enduring and divisive topic.