art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Imagining Judeo-Christian America Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226663852, ISBN: HB: 9780226663715, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Judeo-Christian" is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the...
PB:
£28,00
QTY:
HB:
£79,00
QTY:
History of German Jewish Bible Translation
ISBN: PB: 9780226477725, ISBN: HB: 9780226477695, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational...
PB:
£26,50
QTY:
HB:
£79,00
QTY:
Yearnings of the Soul Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah
ISBN: HB: 9780226295800, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Yearnings of the Soul", Jonathan Garb uncovers a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally: psychology. Returning psychology to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul, he traces the manifold intera...
HB:
£36,00
QTY:
Moses Mendelssohn Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible
ISBN: PB: 9781584656852, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2011
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is best known in the English-speaking world for his Jerusalem (1783), the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion compatible with the ideas of the Enlightenment. While incorporating much...
PB:
£24,00
QTY:
Judaism A Way of Being
ISBN: PB: 9780300168150, Yale University Press, April 2011
248 pp., 20.6x14 cm, 4 colour illus.
Written for observant and non-observant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter seeks to answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism really about? Gelernter views Judaism a...
PB:
£14,99
QTY:
Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah
ISBN: HB: 9780226282077, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm
Bringing to light a hidden chapter in the history of modern Judaism, "Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah" explores the shamanic dimensions of Jewish mysticism. Jonathan Garb integrates methods and models from the social sciences, comparative religion...
HB:
£47,00
QTY:
Radical Judaism Rethinking God and Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300152326, Yale University Press, March 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm
How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can...
PB:
£24,00
QTY:
Chosen Will Become Herds Studies in Twentieth-century Kabbalah
ISBN: PB: 9780300123944, Yale University Press, August 2009
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The popularity of Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical movement at least 900 years old, has grown astonishingly within the context of the vast and ever-expanding social movement commonly referred to as the New Age. This book is the first to provide a broad ov...
PB:
£42,00
QTY: