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645 books match the query 'Judaism' and 24 start with g

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Games of Inheritance

Kabbalah, Tradition, and Authorship in Jorge Luis Borges

Yitzhak Lewis

Rutgers University Press, 2025

Games of Inheritance explores the thought of Argentine author and public intellectual Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) on questions of authorship and literary tradition. The book focuses on Borges’s engagement with Jewish literary and intellectual traditions, highlighting the role of this engagement in developing and expressing his views on these questions. The book argues that the primary relevance of Borges’s persistent reference to “the Judaic” is not for understanding his attitude toward Jews and Judaism but for understanding his position in contemporary Argentinian debates about nationalism and literature, empire and postcolonialism, and populism and aesthetics. By broadening the frame of Borges and the Judaic, this book shifts the scholarly focus to the poetic utility of Borges’s engagement with Jewish literary and intellectual traditions. This allows a better understanding of the nuance of his views on the issues that most animate his oeuvre: authorship and writing, literature and tradition.
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Gates of Awe

Holy Day Prayers for Young Children

Rabbi Howard I. Bogot

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1991

The second in a series of prayerbooks for early childhood use, Gates of Awe contains rich and enchanting illustrations combined with poetic text that enhances the sense of awe found during the Holy Days. The special qualities of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur are skillfully introduced to young worshippers through the inspiration of prayer, the excitement of the Shofar, and the lessons in the stories of Abraham and Torah.
 
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Gates of Healing

Hirshel Jaffe

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

Offering prayers, meditations and readings for the inspiration and comfort of those suffering in the hospital or at home. Gates of Healing also reaches out to the family and friends of the patient.  Its message comes from traditional and modern sources, combining the past and present to bring strength and support to those confronted with such devastating diseases as cancer and AIDS.
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Gates of Mitzvah

Simeon J. Maslin

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1972

This comprehensive guide to Jewish observance throughout the life cycle is the best introduction to Reform Jewish practice available.  It includes sections on birth, childhood and education, marriage and the Jewish home, and death and mourning, as well as essays on sexuality, kashrut, divorce and the single parent family, Jewish ethical wills, tzedakah and other topics.  Shaarei Mitzvah also features extensive notes and references for further study.
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Gates of Prayer - English Open

Chaim Stern

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

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Gates of Prayer WHM - Hebrew Open

Chaim Stern

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1992

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Gates of Prayer for Young People

Roy A. Walter

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1997

Gates of Prayer for Young People fills the need for daily and Shabbat services in congregational worship and the religious school setting.  Building on its forerunners Gates of Wonder and Gates of Awe, this innovative volume includes evening and morning services for weekdays and Shabbat.  Enhanced by full-color art throughout, this text is contemporary, gender-inclusive and designed for young people between five and twelve years of age.
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Gates of Repentance - English Open

Chaim Stern

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

Gates of Repentance, containing services, readings, meditations and songs for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, features contemporary, gender-inclusive language throughout. Like its companion, Gates of Prayer, this volume combines the old with the new and supplies each congregation latitude in establishing its own patterns of worship.
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Gates of Repentance - Hebrew Open

Chaim Stern

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 0

Gates of Repentance, containing services, readings, meditations and songs for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, features contemporary, gender-inclusive language throughout. Like its companion, Gates of Prayer, this volume combines the old with the new and supplies each congregation latitude in establishing its own patterns of worship.
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Gates of Repentance - LP - Hebrew

Chaim Stern

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1997

Gates of Repentance, containing services, readings, meditations and songs for Rosh HasShanah and Yom Kippur, features contemporary, gender-inclusive language throughout. Like its companion, Gates of Prayer, this volume combines the old with the new and supplies each congregation latitude in establishing its own patterns of worship.
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Gates of Repentance for Young People

Rabbi Judith Abrams

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2002

Gates of Repentance for Young People is the Machzor designed for children's High Holy Day services; it completes the series begun with Gates of Wonder, Gates of Awe, and Gates of Prayer for Young People. Each service emphasizes the significant themes of the High Holy Days in engaging ways. The volume includes services for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur for both early and late primary grades in contemporary, gender-inclusive language. It also contains new translations of the High Holy Day readings from the Torah and Haftarot as well as illustrations by award-winning artist Neil Waldman.
 
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Gates of Shabbat

Neil Waldman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1991

Gates of Shabbat is a comprehesive how-to guide containing detailed yet concise information about the Jewish Sabbath at home and in the synagogue. A full appreciation of Jewish custom, ritual and tradition enriches the book, while detailed discussion of the many choices facing contemporary Jews gives it broad appeal. Designed for ease of use, Gates of Shabbat assumes no prior knowledge on the part of its readers, and is an excellent reference for Jews and non-Jews alike.
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Gates of Shabbat - Shaarei Shabbat

A Guide for Observing Shabbat, Revised Edition

Rabbi Mark Dov Shapiro

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2016

This 25th anniversary edition is a completely revised and updated version of the classic how-to guide about Shabbat observance and practices.

This book is about Shabbat--the Jewish treasure that comes around every seven days. In the midst of our freedom, Shabbat offers roots and inspiration along with joy and hope. In the midst of a world of endless choices and paths, Judaism provides the rich resources developed for living a life of meaning over centuries of practice. In particular, Judaism offers Shabbat as a way to deepen, renew, and refresh our lives.

Through additional essays, poetry, and personal insights, as well as many new inspiring and creative ideas, this updated edition of Gates of Shabbat offers a roadmap to discovering and exploring what Shabbat can mean to you.
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Gates of Understanding Volume 1 - PDF Electronic Version

A Companion Volume to Gates of Prayer

Rabbi Chaim Stern

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1977

This ebook is not sold by CCAR Press and must be ordered from the external ebook stores below.

This companion volume to Gates of Prayer includes essays on worship, liturgy, holiness, theology, music, and more, written by leading thinkers of their day. Also included are notes on Gates of Prayer written by Chaim Stern and A. Stanley Dreyfus. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history and development of liturgy and Reform Jewish practice.
 

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Gates of Understanding

Shaarei Bina - Vol. II: Appreciating the Days of Awe

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1977

A religious commentary to help High Holy Days worshipers unlock the message behind the liturgy. Covers the history and tradition of the prayers, music in the service, synagogue poetry, the role of God, sin, repentance, and much more. Also includes comprehensive notes to Gates of Repentance and a thorough index.
 

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Gates of the Seasons

Peter S. Knobel

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1983

A survey of the sacred days of the Jewish yearly cycle providing detailed guidance on observing the Sabbath and the Jewish holidays, including Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day) and Yom Ha-Atzma-ut (Israeli Independence Day). Gates of the Seasons provides historical background, essays, extensive notes, a bibliography, glossary and an index.
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Genetic Afterlives

Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa

Noah Tamarkin

Duke University Press, 2020

In 1997, M. E. R. Mathivha, an elder of the black Jewish Lemba people of South Africa, announced to the Lemba Cultural Association that a recent DNA study substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews. Lemba people subsequently leveraged their genetic test results to seek recognition from the post-apartheid government as indigenous Africans with rights to traditional leadership and land, retheorizing genetic ancestry in the process. In Genetic Afterlives, Noah Tamarkin illustrates how Lemba people give their own meanings to the results of DNA tests and employ them to manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship. Tamarkin turns away from genetics researchers' results that defined a single story of Lemba peoples' “true” origins and toward Lemba understandings of their own genealogy as multivalent. Guided by Lemba people’s negotiations of their belonging as diasporic Jews, South African citizens, and indigenous Africans, Tamarkin considers new ways to think about belonging that can acknowledge the importance of historical and sacred ties to land without valorizing autochthony, borders, or other technologies of exclusion.
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German Idealism and the Jew

The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses

Michael Mack

University of Chicago Press, 2003

In German Idealism and the Jew, Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the redefinition of the Jews as irrational, oriental Others forms the very cornerstone of German idealism, including Kant's conception of universal reason.

Offering the first analytical account of the connection between anti-Semitism and philosophy, Mack begins his exploration by showing how the fundamental thinkers in the German idealist tradition—Kant, Hegel, and, through them, Feuerbach and Wagner—argued that the human world should perform and enact the promises held out by a conception of an otherworldly heaven. But their respective philosophies all ran aground on the belief that the worldly proved incapable of transforming itself into this otherworldly ideal. To reconcile this incommensurability, Mack argues, philosophers created a construction of Jews as symbolic of the "worldliness" that hindered the development of a body politic and that served as a foil to Kantian autonomy and rationality.

In the second part, Mack examines how Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Franz Rosenzweig, and Freud, among others, grappled with being both German and Jewish. Each thinker accepted the philosophies of Kant and Hegel, in varying degrees, while simultaneously critiquing anti-Semitism in order to develop the modern Jewish notion of what it meant to be enlightened—a concept that differed substantially from that of Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, and Wagner. By speaking the unspoken in German philosophy, this book profoundly reshapes our understanding of it.
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Gershom Scholem

An Intellectual Biography

Amir Engel

University of Chicago Press, 2017

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience.
           
As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the vast literature of Jewish mystical lore into a rich assortment of stories that unveiled new truths about the modern condition. Positioning Scholem’s work and life within early twentieth-century Germany, Palestine, and later the state of Israel, Engel intertwines Scholem’s biography with his historiographical work, which stretches back to the Spanish expulsion of Jews in 1492, through the lives of Rabbi Isaac Luria and Sabbatai Zevi, and up to Hasidism and the dawn of the Zionist movement. Through parallel narratives, Engel touches on a wide array of important topics including immigration, exile, Zionism, World War One, and the creation of the state of Israel, ultimately telling the story of the realizations—and failures—of a dream for a modern Jewish existence.
 
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Gestating Judaism

The Corporeal Technologies of American Jewish Religion

Cara Rock-Singer

University of Chicago Press, 2026

An ethnography of how people use reproductive practices to transmit and reinvent American Judaism.

In Gestating Judaism, Cara Rock-Singer develops a new analytic technique called ethnodrashy (a combination of rabbinical midrash and sociological ethnography) to explore the centrality of reproductive bodies to the intellectual, political, and spiritual life of American Judaism. She considers how, in reproduction, religious practices like the mikveh combine with secular practices like fertility treatments in ways that challenge the popular idea that religion occupies a separate sphere of life from politics or science. In fact, Rock-Singer shows how Jewish feminists have leveraged the work of reproduction to intervene in important conversations about both politics and theology. Drawing together religious studies, gender studies, and science and technology studies, Gestating Judaism shows how Jewish tradition is transmitted and reinvented through the ongoing labor of reproduction.

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God Gave Us The Right

Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish Women Grapple with Feminism

Manning, Christel

Rutgers University Press, 1999

What does it mean to be a religious conservative, particularly for women, in America today? While it appears that people are returning to conservative religion because they are fed up with the excesses of liberalism, including feminism, a closer look at the lives of religious conservatives reveals a more complex reality. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant communities, Christel Manning explores the diversity among women who have returned to tradition. Arguing that America has undergone profound cultural and economic changes in the last thirty years, which create tension between women's lives and traditional gender roles, she demonstrates that conservative Catholics, Orthodox Jews, and Evangelical Protestants negotiate those tensions in different ways. Manning also shows that women in conservative religious communities share many of the same concerns as secular women.
Manning looks at how the religious communities profiled have been influenced by feminist values and describes the ways in which these women negotiate gender roles at work, religious services, and at home. She explains how they deal with the inconsistencies created by their attempts to integrate feminist and traditionalist norms. In highly accessible prose, Manning examines their attitudes towards the feminist movement, its impact on American culture, and the extent to which the women seek to resist it. God Gave Us the Right explains how these different views of feminism reflect the diverse theologies and historical experiences of the three communities.
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Goethe and Judaism

The Troubled Inheritance of Modern Literature

Karin Schutjer

Northwestern University Press, 2015

 In Goethe and Judaism, Schutjer aims to provide a broad, though by no means exhaustive, literary study that is neither apologetic nor reductive, that attends to the complexity and irony of Goethe’s literary work but takes his representations of Judaism seriously as an integral part of his thought and writing. She is thus concerned not simply with accusing or acquitting Goethe of prejudice but rather with discerning the function and logic of his relationship to Judaism, as seen within his work. Her premise is that Goethe’s conception of modernity—his anxieties as well as his most affirmative vision concerning the trajectory of his age—are deeply entwined with his conception of Judaism. Schutjer argues that behind his very mixed representations of Jews and Judaism stand crucial tensions within his own thinking and a distinct anxiety of influence. Indeed, Goethe, she contends, paradoxically wrestles against precisely those impulses in Judaism for which he feels the greatest affinity, which most approach his own vision of modernity. The discourse of wandering in Goethe’s work serves as a key site where Judaism and modernity meet.
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Going West

Migrating Personae and Construction of the Self in Rabbinic Culture

Reuven Kiperwasser

SBL Press, 2021

This new book by Reuven Kiperwasser examines the social, cultural, and religious aspects of third- to sixth-century narratives involving rabbinic figures migrating between Babylonia and Palestine. Kiperwasser draws on migration and mobility studies, comparative literature, humor and satire studies, as well as social history to reveal how border-crossing rabbis were seen as exporting features of their previous eastern context into their new western homes and vice versa. Through their writing, rabbinic authors articulated the nature and legitimacy of their own scholastic practices, knowledge, and authority in relationship to their internal others.
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Gone to Another Meeting

The National Council of Jewish Women, 1893-1993

Faith Rogow

University of Alabama Press, 1993

The first comprehensive history of the oldest national religious Jewish women's organization in the United States

Gone to Another Meeting charts the development of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) and its impact on both the Jewish Community in the United States and American Society in general.

Founded in 1893 by Hannah Greenebaum Solomon, NCJW provided a conduit through which Jewish women’s voices could be heard and brought a Jewish voice to America’s women’s rights movement. NCJW would come to represent both the modernization and renewal of traditional Jewish womanhood. Through its emphasis on motherhood, its adoption of domestic feminism, and its efforts to carve a distinct Jewish niche in the late 19th-century Progressive social reform movement in the largely Christian world of women’s clubs, NCJW was instrumental in defining a uniquely American version of Jewish womanhood.
 

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