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Vladka Meed, born Feigele Peltel, was just a teenager when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Increasingly devastated by the deportation and murder of 300,000 Jews—including her mother, brother, and sister—who were sent from Warsaw to the death camp of Treblinka, she heeded the call for armed resistance, joining the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), established in Warsaw in July 1942.

The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex - and so ambivalent.

If you've ever sensed that the world of the Bible was bigger than the pages in front of you, you're right. You just haven't had a map. The Enoch Study Bible is that map: a 52-week guided study that follows a single tradition across more than a thousand years. It starts with Enoch and the fall of...

What if the universe is not merely a collection of physical objects—but a living web of divine meaning that humanity has been called to repair?Today, Kabbalah is discussed around the world—but its authentic history and meaning are often obscured by myths, commercial promises, and popular...

Must Read trophy from Reedsy Discovery: A fascinating look at an interesting religion, good for followers and non followers alike.After the Party's Over: A Jewish Teen's Guide to Finding Your Path is a thoughtful, accessible nonfiction guide for Jewish teens navigating the years after their bar...

What if the Bible was never meant to be read as history… but as a mirror?For thousands of years, biblical stories have shaped civilizations, inspired revolutions, and guided billions of lives. But what if their greatest power has nothing to do with the past…and everything to do with you...

Jewish Law Made Simple is a class on the Abridged Code of Jewish Law (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch), taught in plain English by Rabbi Shuchat. Just a few minutes a day, and in one year you will have learned the entire book. No background needed.

Das Neue Testament schwebt niemals schwerelos im Raum. Kein Neues Testament ohne den Tanach. Wir erkunden die ursprünglichen Wurzeln unseres Glaubens und verbinden die ungebrochenen biblischen Verheißungen an Israel mit unserem heutigen Leben. Komm mit auf eine Entdeckungsreise durch das gesamte Wort Gottes und lerne die Schrift wieder in ihrem eigentlichen Kontext zu verstehen.

C'est un cri du cœur. C'est une introspection. C'est un livre de questions. C'est une recherche. C'est un chantier personnel, moral, psychique et politique. À l'issue de la nuit, Laure Adler espère être « presque juive ».

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield, read by John Sackville. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There...

Drawn from the author's own mystical illumination, this book reveals the truth buried within the stories of the old and new testaments alike. Briefly, the book states that consciousness is the one and only reality, that consciousness is the cause and manifestation is the effect.

In Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War Friedman takes the listener on a personal journey to understand the history of the Cohens. At the center of the story is a sensitive young man pulled between love and duty, a close-knit family straining under moral and political conflicts, and a city coming into its own.

The Lost Ark of the Covenant is the real-life account of Professor Tudor Parfitt's effort to recover the revered artifact that contained the Ten Commandments sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This holy object disappeared from the Temple in Jerusalem when the Babylonians invaded in 586...

Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.

The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity - truths that may have been lost or buried by institutional religion over the last two millennia. In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of one such truth, the ancient esoteric religion of gnosticism, which flourished between the first and fourth centuries AD, but whose legacy remains even today, having survived secretly throughout the ages. 

Want to live a satisfying life? Figure out your purpose on the planet? Leave a powerful legacy? In The Way of the Wise, New York Times best-selling author Dr. Kevin Leman reveals ten life-changing principles — all packed in six amazing little verses by the wisest man of all, King Solomon. They...

Among the many important historical documents from the Classical world of Greece and Rome The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus is one of the most distinctive and characterful. Josephus (37-c100 CE) set out with the clear purpose of telling the history of the Jews from the creation in...

Conversations with Jewish Thought Leaders

Somewhere along the way, many of us were forcefed the idea that philosophy is boring and esoteric. What? Philosophy is, in fact, rebellious and therapeutic! Using humor, personal anecdotes, and much hubris, the Schrift provides fresh and unexpected answers to life's most tricky and fateful questions. The anchor of the Schrift is the weekly reading of the Torah. These passages are analyzed not as religious dogma but as brilliant pieces of literature and anthropology which bring ancient wisdom back into our lives. The greatest philosophers and writers of the German canon also weigh in on these ...

Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. But a rising tide of critics within the church claim that Moses and other "primitive," violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, "textual" Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, "actual" God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so?