Told as a series of reflections, this study traces links between cultures as diverse as pre-Vedic India and late 19th-century France. An array of unrelated artists are all in fact linked by the Kabbalah and the correlation between art and this mystic...

A study of the Holocaust, evaluating accepted views of its history and meaning. Yehuda Bauer offers his own interpretation of why the Holocaust occurred and how another can be prevented. He presents opinions on topics ranging from how Jews reacted to...

"Two Jews were traveling on a train..". Many Eastern European jokes – and several of the charming and often hilarious conversations in this book – begin this way. From all regions of the world and from all walks of life, the characters are young and...

The world has recently learned of Oskar Schindler's efforts to save the lives of Jewish workers in his factory in Poland. In this engrossing, profound and deeply moving book, a leading Holocaust scholar examines other equally dramatic attempts to neg...

Today's Jewish women, successfully availing themselves of the increased educational and occupational opportunities that feminism has encouraged, feel a new sense of self and entitlement. Yet as feminist advances have opened possibilities, they also h...

Combining literary criticism and feminist analysis, "Death and Dissymmetry" radically reinterprets not only the Book of Judges but also the tradition of its reception and understanding in the West. In Mieke Bal's account, Judges documents the Israeli...