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The first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. Recalling such bestsellers as David McCullough's John Adams, and Walter Isaacson's Einstein, MAIMONIDES is a biography on a grand scale, brilliantly explicating one man's life against the background of his time. As a physician, Maimonides is associated with Hippocrates as...
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West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"An American rabbi enters Soviet Russia to investigate reports of persecution among the Jewish community. Though heavily monitored once he enters the state, one day the rabbi manages to sneak away in a taxi and discovers a secret that will change his lifeforever"--
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Weeping Willow Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Rabbi Elijah Daniels experiences more than a little anxiety when he agrees to tour Germany. His good friend, Pastor Dan Winter, assures him it will be a good experience and the Evangelical students he would accompany would benefit from a rabbi's perspective as they tour the country. The rabbi nonetheless worries about how he will respond to the nation that massacred more than six million Jews during World War II. After his arrival, though, he encounters...
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Weeping Willow Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Second edition.
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English
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Rabbi Elijah Daniels is invited to a Native American sweat lodge ceremony, where he meets and befriends the leaders of the nearby Antchu community. When a spiritual elder confesses to the murder of his wife, the tribe asks the rabbi, who is also an attorney, to take his case. The rabbi's concern over the ethics of representing a confessed murderer fades when the evidence against the elder doesn't seem to add up. Something's amiss, and the rabbi finds...
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Golem and the jinni volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire, form an unlikely friendship on the streets of New York until a fateful choice changes everything.
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Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
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English
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"A wise, uplifting memoir about a rabbi's search for understanding and his discovery of hope and joy after his young son suffered a catastrophic brain-stem stroke that left him a quadriplegic and dependent on a ventilator for each breath."--Amazon.com.
8) The golem
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, an ancient Hebrew legend provides the substance for one of the most adventurous films of the early German cinema and a landmark in the evolution of the horror film. Suffering under the tyrannical rule of a merciless despot, a 16th century Talmudic rabbi creates a giant clay warrior that comes to life in a grand scale climax.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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First edition.
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English
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"Rabbi Ruben loves his synagogue. But he doesn’t love the creaking floorboards, leaking sink, or drafty windows. Surely, he thinks, he can fix it up so it feels cared for, like a happy home! But Rabbi Ruben doesn’t know much about home repair, so when his creative fixes—challah dough plugging a drippy faucet, tablecloths blocking a window draft—make things humorously worse, it’ll take his whole congregation banding together to remind him...
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