Author: Anita Diamant
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: dead, mourn, jew, bury, dying, kaddish, comfort, saying
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-07-12
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0805210881
ISBN-13: 9780805210880

Anita Diamant’s knowledge, sensitivity, and clarity have made her one of the most respected writers of guides to Jewish life. In Saying Kaddish, she shows how to make Judaism’s time-honored rituals into personal, meaningful sources of comfort. Diamant guides the reader through Jewish practices that attend the end of life, from the sickroom to the funeral to the week, month, and year that follow. There are chapters describing the traditional Jewish funeral and the customs of Shiva, the first week after death when mourners are comforted and cared for by community, friends, and family

Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: forgotten
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1995-01-31
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0805210199
ISBN-13: 9780805210194

A profoundly moving novel about a Holocaust survivor’s struggle to remember both the heroic and the shameful events of his past, and about his American-born son’s need to assimilate his father’s life into his own. "A book of shattering force that offers a message of urgency to a world under the spell of trivia and the tyranny of amnesia."--Chicago Tribune Book World.

Author: Peter Murray
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: renaissance, italian, architecture
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-05-20
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0805210822
ISBN-13: 9780805210828

A handsome reissue of a classic guide to the architecture of Renaissance Italy indispensable to travelers, students, and architecture buffs alike and still the most comprehensive and accessible overview available. Photos and drawings throughout.

Author: Gershom Scholem
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: mysticism, jewish, trends, major
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1995-05-02
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0805210423
ISBN-13: 9780805210422

A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today.

Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: amerika
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-07-02
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0805210644
ISBN-13: 9780805210644

Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: encounters, jewish, rashi
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-08-11
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0805242546
ISBN-13: 9780805242546

From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages. Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism and decimated by the Crusades. The incomparable scholar Rashi, whose phrase-by-phrase explication of the oral law has been included in every printing of the Talmud since the fifteenth century, was also a spiritual and religious lead

Author: Martin Buber
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: hasidim, tales
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 1991-07-23
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0805209956
ISBN-13: 9780805209952

This edition, bringing together Volumes One and Two of Buber’s classic work, contains marvelous tales - terse, vigorous, often cryptic - of the Hasidic masters.