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Free Download Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine
by Mikhail Goldis and Marat Grinberg
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0D28TGGFH | 179 Pages | PDF | 6.15 MB

Free Download John J. Collins, "Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures: New Developments in Canon Controversy"
English | ISBN: 0664265979 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures examines the writings included in and excluded from the Jewish and Christian canons of Scripture and explores the social settings in which some of this literature was viewed as authoritative and some was viewed either as uninspired or as heretical. John J. Collins, Craig A. Evans, and Lee Martin McDonald examine how those noncanonical writings demonstrate the historical, literary, and religious aspects of the culture that gave rise to the writings. They also show how literature excluded from the Jewish and Christian canons of Scripture remains valuable today for understanding the questions and conflicts that early Jewish and Christian faith communities faced. Through this discussion, contemporary readers acquire a broader understanding of biblical Scripture and of Jewish and Christian faith inspired by Scripture.

Free Download Alex S. Kohav, "Paradoxes in God’s Garden: Jewish Philosophy and the Edenic Narrative"
English | ISBN: 166696980X | 2024 | 244 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This edited collection offers new perspectives on perceived paradoxes in Israel’s religious heritage, with a particular focus on the Garden of Eden narrative and descriptions of Israel’s God. The chapters examine a number of themes related to these paradoxes, including (1) "knowledge" versus "life" (referencing the two Edenic trees); (2) paradoxes pertaining to knowledge in the biblical versus Socratic traditions and the Platonic "good" versus the apparent eschewing of the good-evil dichotomy in Garden of Eden; (3) difficulties implicating finitude versus infinity; (4) God’s Edenic garden versus rabbinical "orchard," or Pardes, the traditional fourfold manner of Torah interpretation; (5) the question of the Sôd, or "secret" esoteric stratum or narrative channel within the text of the Torah; (6) the issue of idolatry; (7) the nature of Israel’s deity; (8) a comparative glimpse of the Israelite God vis-à-vis relevant Christian and Buddhist glosses on divinity; and (9) science-fictional explorations of the biblical exegesis discourse. The volume’s contributors are based in Canada; England; Poland; Israel; and the United States.

Free Download Bruce H. Wolk, "Jewish Aviators in World War II: Personal Narratives of American Men and Women"
English | ASIN : B01D3AGBAQ | 2016 | 225 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II. Despite acts of heroism and commendations, they were subject to bigotry and scorn by their fellow servicemen. Jews were sometimes characterized as disloyal and cowardly, malingering in the slanderous (and non-existent) "Jewish Quartermaster Corps" or sitting out the war in easy assignments. Based on interviews with more than 100 Jewish air veterans, this oral history features the recollections of pilots, crew members and support personnel in all theaters of combat and all branches of the service, including Jewish women of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The subjects recall their combat experiences, lives as POWs, and anti-Semitism in the ranks, as well as human interest anecdotes such as encounters with the Tuskegee Airmen.

Free Download The Kingdom of Israel: The History of the United Jewish Kingdom and Its Demise by Charles River Editors
English | August 18, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DDLFPCZ9 | 58 pages | EPUB | 2.01 Mb
Before any type of unified political entity named Israel existed, the Jewish groups whose descendants would later form Israel identified themselves by their particular tribe. If asked their nationality or country of origin, they would likely identify themselves as Danites (from the tribe of Dan; Ex. 31:6) or Ephraimites (from the tribe of Ephraim; Judg. 12:5), etc. The main way to differentiate these tribes from other tribes in Canaan was their common worship of the deity YHWH, but in terms of language or other cultural characteristics, it would have been difficult to tell a Canaanite from an Israelite.

Free Download A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner
English | August 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 0197536867 | 344 pages | True EPUB | 18.26 MB
A new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States

Free Download What is the secret of high Jewish achievements? by Samuel Greenberg
English | August 23, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DF5SR2HJ | 47 pages | EPUB | 0.84 Mb
What makes Jews successful in science and business?

Free Download History, Metahistory, and Evil: Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust (New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism) by Barbara Krawcowicz
English | January 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1644694816 | 242 pages | MOBI | 3.15 Mb
Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes. But most traditional Jewish thinkers during the war saw no such overwhelming of tradition in the death and suffering delivered to Jews by Nazis. Through a comparative reading of postwar North American and wartime Orthodox Jewish texts about the Holocaust, Barbara Krawcowicz shows that these sources differ in the paradigms―modern and historicist for North American thinkers, traditional and covenantal for Orthodox thinkers―in which they emDescription historical events.

Free Download For Such A Time As This: On Being Jewish Today by Elliot Cosgrove
English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 0063417472 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 3.1 MB
A poignant exploration of what it means to be Jewish today, from a leading voice in modern Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue

Free Download Howard Tzvi Adelman, "Women and Jewish Marriage Negotiations in Early Modern Italy: For Love and Money "
English | ISBN: 0367893096 | 2019 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 430 KB + 2 MB
This book examines the role of women in Jewish family negotiations, using the setting of Italy from the end of the Renaissance to the Baroque. In ghettos at night and under the scrutiny of inquisitions, Jews flourished. Life and learning were enriched by Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, the Ottoman Empire, transalpine Europe, west and east, and Catholic neighbors. Rabbinic discourse represented conflicting customs in family formation and dissolution, especially at moments of crisis for women: forced betrothal; physical, mental and financial abuse; polygamy, and abandonment. In this book, case studies illustrate the ambiguity, drama, and danger to which women were exposed, as well as opportunities to make their voices heard and to extricate themselves from situations by forcing a divorce, collecting or seizing assets, and going to Catholic notaries to bequeath their assets outside traditional inheritance, often to other women. Despite intrusion by rabbis, their ability for coercion was limited, and their threats of punishments reflected the rhetoric of weakness rather than realistic options for implementation. The focus of this text is not what the law says, but rather how it enabled individual Jews, especially women, to speak and to act.