Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/general Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Part I: Introduction, General Sources, Torah, Talmud, and Mishnah [Last Change: $Date: 1993/09/05 18:07:41 $ $Revision: 2.3 $] [Last Post: Fri Aug 6 11:09:38 1993] There is nothing more uniquely characteristic of the style of Jewish religious life than the great love Jews have for holy books. [Sie73] The message is intended to provide the readers of soc.culture.jewish with suggestions for books discussing various Jewish topics, especially the subject of Jewish law and practice. While no book can substitute for a formal course of instruction guided by one's Rabbi, these books are useful as reference material for the knowledgeable, and as an introduction for the not-yet-knowledgeable about Judaism. It is difficult to separate what is now termed "Orthodox" judaism from the collective term "Judaism". The practices of Orthodoxy tend to be the traditional practices. Furthermore, Orthodoxy is not organized as a movement in the same sense as Reform or Conservative; although Orthodox organizations exist, congregations do not need to join them to be considered Orthodox. This list is by no means intended to be exhaustive, and it is designed to lean toward traditional Judaism, although some of the sources included under the GENERAL headings included references to liberal movements. Please note: All parts of this list should be undigestifyable via gnus or other news readers. Each subpart begins with it's own Subject: for easy reference. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Organization This list consists of 11 parts. Each part is subdivided into a number of subheadings, each beginning with a line of 60 dashes and a Subject:. This allows digestification by programs such as gnus. The organization of these parts is as follows: o Part I: Introduction and General I.1. Where Can I Get These Books From? I.2. But The List is So Long, Where Should I Start? I.3. For Non-Jewish Readers I.4. General Judaism I.5. General Jewish Thought I.6. General Jewish History I.7. Noachide Laws I.8. Torah and Talmud I.9. Mishnah and Talmud I.10. Torah and Talmudic Commentary I.11. Midrash I.12. Halachic Codes I.13. Becoming An Observant Jew I.14. Women and Judaism I.15. Science and Judaism o Part II: Traditional Liturgy, Practice, Lifestyle, Holidays II.1. Traditional Liturgy II.2. Traditional Philosophy and Ethics II.3. Prayer II.4. Traditional Practice II.5. The Household II.6. Life, Death, and In-Between II.7. The Cycle Of Holidays o Part III: The Messiah, Kaballah and Chasidism III.1. The Messiah III.2. Chasidism III.3. Kaballah and Mysticism o Part IV: Reform Judaism IV.1. Reform Beliefs IV.2. Reform Rituals IV.3. Reform Liturgy IV.4. Reform Responsa IV.5. Reform History IV.6. The Bible o Part V: Conservative Judaism V.1. Conservative Beliefs V.2. Conservative Practices V.3. Conservative History V.4. Conservative Liturgy o Part VI: Reconstructionist Judaism VI.1. Philosophy Of Movement VI.2. Reconstructionist Education VI.3. Reconstructionist Liturgy o Part VII: Humanistic Judaism VII.1. Philosophy Of Movement VII.2. Other Related Reading o Part VIII: Zionism VIII.1. Zionism and The Development Of Israel VIII.2. The Founders VIII.3. Zionistic Movements VIII.4. Judaism in Israel o Part IX: Antisemitism IX.1. Antisemitism IX.2. What Led to The Holocaust IX.3. Medieval Oppression IX.4. Antisemitism Today (Including Dealing with Hate Groups) IX.5. Judiasm and Christianity o Part X: Intermarriage X.1. So You're Considering Intermarriage? X.2. The Traditional Viewpoint X.3. Conversion X.4. You've Done The Deed. Coping With Life As An Intermarried o Part XI: Periodicals XI.1.a. Topical General Interest Periodicals XI.1.b. General Interest Periodicals focused on Tradition and Home XI.1.c. General Interest Periodicals focused on Jewish Scholarship XI.1.d. Other General Interest Periodicals XI.2. Publications Targeted For Specific Movements XI.3. Rabbinic Journals XI.4. Local Publications The reader is also referred to the excellent chapter on "Creating a Jewish Library" in the first volume of _The (First) Jewish Catalog_. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and Credits This list is based on an original list developed by Rob Levine, which was last posted to the net in February of 1991. Rob's list was culled from s.c.j. postings as well as the bibliographies of some of the books on this list. This original list has been augmented based on bibliographic research done by D. Faigin at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, as well as contributions from readers of s.c.j, mail.jewish, and mail.liberal-judaism. It is also based on suggestions found in the excellent _Jewish Catalog_ [**] series, which would serve anyone well as a sourcebook on Judaism. Contributions to the list have also been made by: Steven Abrams, Michael Allen, Rabbi Charles Arian, Jim Eggert, Ari Epstein, David A Guberman, Douglas Jones, David Kaufmann, Evelyn Leeper, Jack Love, Hillel Markowitz (both alone and in consultation with Rabbi Yirmiyahu Kaganoff of Baltimore), Rabbi Josh Segal, Steven Seidman, and Andrew Tannenbaum. As usual, suggestions for additions or deletions are welcome, as are *brief* annotations for any entry. Entries in the GENERAL sections may reflect non-Orthodox viewpoints; entries in the other sections should reflect the traditional view. Where appropriate, entries reflecting non-traditional views will be clearly marked as such; I will entertain suggestions with respect to the non-GENERAL sections that the reference more properly belongs in another reading list (Reform, Conservative, etc.). All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on israel.nysernet.org [192.77.173.2] in the directory: ~ftp/israel/lists/scj-faq They are available in the rtfm.mit.edu archives in the directory: pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism The following files make up the reading lists and are in the "reading-lists" subdirectory: general, traditional, chasidism, reform, conservative, reconstructionist, humanistic, zionism, antisemitism, intermarriage, periodicals. The following files make up the FAQ and are in the "FAQ" subdirectory: 01-FAQ-intro, 02-Who-We-Are, 03-Torah-Halacha, 04-Observance, 05-Worship, 06-Jewish-Thought, 07-Jews-As-Nation, 08-Israel, 09-Antisemitism, 10-Miscellaneous. The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: I.1. WHERE CAN I GET THESE BOOKS FROM? I can't tell you where to get all of these books, but a good Jewish bookstore should be a good starting place. Many of these books are published by the Jewish Publication Society * 1528 Walnut Street, Suite 800 * Philadelphia PA 19102 * 800-234-3151; this is indicated by . Another significant general publishers is Mesorah, 4401 Second Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11232 (1-800-MESORAH). Both have good catalogs. Some of the books are published by the publishers of the various Jewish movements; addresses may be found in the particular sections: Kehot, Sichos in English Part III (Chasidism) UAHC, CCAR Part IV (Reform) World Union for Progressive Judaism Part IV (Reform) JTS, USA, USCJ Part V (Conservative) Reconstructionist Press Part VI (Reconstructionist) SHJ Part VII (Humanistic) If you can't find them elsewhere, books marked with may be ordered from The Isaac Nathan Publishing Co, 7106 Owensmouth Avenue, Canoga Park CA 91303, 818/346-1410, FAX 818/346-4236. Other recommended bookstores are: o Pinsker's Bookstore (1-800-JUDAISM [1-800-583-2476], Pittsburgh PA). o Judaica Emporium (3070 Broadway, New York NY, 212-662-7000). o Jewish Book Center of the Workmen's Circle (45 E 33rd, New York NY, 212-889-6800 x285 or 800-922-2558) o Levine Jewish Books and Judaica (5 W 30th, New York NY, 212-695-6888). o J. Roth Bookseller Of Fine & Scholarly Judaica (9020 Olympic Blvd, Beverly Hills CA, 310-276-9414) Most bookstores will ship books, especially in this age of credit cards and mail order. You can also try contacting the publishers for any book. According to a post from backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL a while back, the Stanford University Bookstore has its database on the Internet; telnet to forsythetn.stanford.edu, login as "socrates", and select bookstore. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.2. BUT THE LIST IS SO LONG, WHERE SHOULD I START? For a basic understanding of Judaism, start with Prager and Telushkin's _The Nine Questions People ask about Judaism_ , as well as Telushkin's _Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About Judaism_ . As mentioned above, the _Jewish Catalog_ series (3 volumes) provides more than enough information, as well as providing pointers to even more sources. Siegel and Rheins _The Jewish Almanac_ also provides useful high-level information. For a deeper understanding, continue with Donin's _To Be a Jew_ and _To Pray as a Jew_. For some historical perspective, read Prager and Telushkin's _Why the Jews?_. General history is covered well in Grayzel's _A History of the Jews_ and Wein's _Triumph of Survival: The Story of Jews in the Modern Age, 1650-1990_. For a discussion of the emotional, social, and lifestyle aspects of becoming an observant Jew, read Steinsaltz's _Teshuvah_. Readers are also urged to explore Jewish audio-tape lending libraries, such as those run by Aish HaTorah, Etz Chayim, Chabad, Beis Chana in Minnesota and various other Jewish outreach groups. Tape series on Jewish History, Jewish Law, (all levels), Torah, Talmud, and other subjects are available. For those of you with backgrounds in Liberal Judaism, audio-tapes are also available from the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Contact your local Rabbi, or the library at a local synagogue, for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.3. FOR NON-JEWISH READERS You'll probably find the texts listed may be a little too deep if you just want to learn what Judaism is. Consider the following instead: [Clo87] Clorfene, Chaim and Yaakov Rogalsky. _The Path of the Righteous Gentile_. Smithfield, MI: Targum Press, 1987 [Ein91] Einstein, Stephen J. and Kukoff, Lydia. _Every Person's Guide to Judaism_. UAHC Press #142610. ISBN 0-8074-0434-9. 1991. [Non-Orthodox. Guide to Judaism that recognizes that study is only the first step to learning and living as a Jew.] [Gar89] Garfiel, Evelyn. _Service of the Heart: a Guide to the Jewish Prayer Book_. Jason Aronson, Northvale (NJ), 1989, ISBN 0-87668-873-3. You should also explore _The Jewish Almanac_, _The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism_, the excellent books by Donin (_To Be A Jew_, _To Pray as a Jew_) and the _Jewish Catalog_ series. You'll find a discussion of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism in the supplemental Antisemitism reading list. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.4. GENERAL JUDAISM [Bla66] Blau, Joseph L. _Modern Varieties of Judaism_. Columbia Univerity Press, New York NY. 1966. [Ein91] Einstein, Stephen J. and Kukoff, Lydia. _Every Person's Guide to Judaism_. UAHC Press #142610. ISBN 0-8074-0434-9. 1991. [Non-Orthodox. Guide to Judaism that recognizes that study is only the first step to learning and living as a Jew.] [Fri90] Friesel, Evyatar. _Atlas of Modern Jewish History_ Oxford University Press. 1990. [Contains demographics of the American Jewish population, including employment categories, intermarriage rates, maps, etc.] [Gla72] Glazer, Nathan. _American Judaism_. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL. 1982. [Gre88] Greenberg, Irving. _The Jewish Way_. Summit Books, New York NY. 1988. [Her61] Hertzberg, Arthur. _Judaism_. Braziller, New York. 1961. Washington Square, New York (paperback). [Non-Orthodox source] [Neu74] Neusner, Jacob. _The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism_. Dickenson Publishing Company, Encino CA. 1974. [Not universally accepted, non-Orthodox point of view] [Neu75] Neusner, Jacob, ed. _Understanding American Judaism_. Volume Two: Sectors of American Judaism: Reform, Orthodoxy, Conservativism, and Reconstructionism. Ktav Press, New York. 1975. [Not universally accepted, non-Orthodox point of view] [New??] Newman, Y. and Sivan, G. _A-Z Illustrated Lexicon of Judaism_. World Zionist Organization Torah Education Dept. [Pra81] Prager, Dennis and Telushkin, Joseph. _The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism_. Schuster, New York. 1981. ISBN 0-671-62261. [Ros78] Rosenthal, G. _Many Faces of Judaism: Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Reform_ Behrman House, New York. 1978 [Contains a descriptive comparison of Orthodox, Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism. It is intended as a low end high school text and although still good, it is beginning to show its age.] [Rot72] Roth, Cecil, Ed. _Encyclopedia Judaica_. 16 Vols. Keter, Jerusalem. 1972. [Sie73] Siegel, Richard; Strassfeld, Michael; Strassfeld, Sharon. _The First Jewish Catalog: A Do-It Yourself Kit_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA. 1973. [Catalog 1 covers Symbols of the Home, Kashrut, Candles, Kippah, Tallit, Tefillin, the Shofar, Jewish travel, the Jewish year cycle, Weddings, Tumah and taharah, Death and burial, scribal arts, gematria, music, film, the Jewish press, creating a jewish library, and relationships between man, women, and the community] [Sie80] Siegel, Richard and Rheins, Carl. _The Jewish Almanac_. Bantam Books, New York. 1980. [Sil56] Silver, Abba Hillel. _Where Judaism Differed_. Macmillan, New York. 1956. [Reform point of view] [Ste47] Steinberg, Milton. _Basic Judaism_. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York. 1947. ISBN 0-15-610698-1. [Conservative] [Str76] Strassfeld, Sharon and Strassfeld, Michael, eds. _The Second Jewish Catalog_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA. 1976. [Catalog 2 covers the life cycle in more depth, aspects of study, synagogue and prayer, and the arts. The Jewish Yellow Pages are out of date, quite likely.] [Str80] Strassfeld, Sharon and Strassfeld, Michael, eds. _The Third Jewish Catalog_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA. 1980. [Catalog 3 covers justice, community, genealogy, dispersion, exile, surroundings, and israel. It also talks about how to be a mentsh, and includes a cumlutive index to all three catalogs] [Sym??] Syme, Daniel B. _Jewish Mourning_. UAHC Press #388494. ISBN 0-8074-0332-6. [Non-Orthodox, but offers both traditional and liberal Jewish attitudes towards death-related issues.] [Tel91] Telushkin, Joseph. _Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About Judaism_. Morrow, New York. 1991. [Wou59] Wouk, Herman. _This is my G@d_. Dell, NY. 1959. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.5. GENERAL JEWISH THOUGHT [Ber73] Berkovits, Eliezer. _Faith after the Holocaust_. Ktav Publishing House, New York. 1973. [Ber79] Berkovits, Eliezer _G@d, Man and History_. Jonathan David, New York. 1979. [Dor92] Dorff, Elliot. _Knowing God: Jewish Journeys to the Unknowable_. Jason Aronson. 1992. [R. Dorff is provost and professor of philosophy at the University of Judaism (Conservative)] [Gil90] Gillman, Neil. _Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew_. Jewish Publication Society. 1990. [A National Jewish Book Award winner; R. Gillman is professor of philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary] (Conservative) [Gre92] Green, Arthur. _Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Contemporary Jewish Theology_. Jason Aronson. 1992. [R. Green, who recently left the presidency of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College for a chair at Brandeis, is regarded as a leading exponent of neo-Hasidism] (Reconstructionist) [Har85] Hartman, David. _A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism_. Free Press. 1985. [R. Hartman is director of the Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, and a student of Rav Soloveitchik z"l] [Hes55] Heschel, Abraham Joshua. _God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism_. Harper Torchbook. 1966. [One of Heschel's more accessible major works.] [Kap79] Kaplan, Aryeh. _Handbook of Jewish Thought_. Maznaim Publishing Corp., 4304 12th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11219, 718-438-7680, New York/Jerusalem, 1979. [Pel84] Peli, P. _Soloveitchik on Repentance: The Thought and Oral Discourses of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik_. Paulist Press. 1984. [the Rav as presented by the late chair of Hebrew Studies at Ben Gurion University] [Sol??] Soloveitchik. _Halachic Man_. JPS: Philadelphia PA. ???. ISBN 0-8276-0222-7. [Sol91] Soloveichik, Rabbi Ahron, _Logic of the Heart, Logic of the Mind_. Judaica Press/Genesis Jerusalem Press, 1991, ISBN 0-9630936-0-6 [Son90] Sonsino, Rifat and Syme, Daniel B. _What Happens After I Die: Jewish Views of Life after Death_. UAHC Press, New York. 1990. UAHC #571201 ISBN 0-8074-0356-3. [Addresses a spectrum of responses to the question, including philosophies from biblical rabbinic commentators to contemporary thinkers in the Jewish community.] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.6. GENERAL JEWISH HISTORY [Bam70] Bamberger, Bernard. _The Story of Judaism_. Schocken Books, New York. 1970. [Bar52] Baron, Salo W. _A Social and Religous History of the Jews_. 18 Vols to date. Columbia University Press, New York. 1952-. [Comprehensive, organized topically, not strictly chronologically. This book is very extensive, and may be difficult to read. Not for the beginner.] [Ben71] Ben-Sasson, H.H. & Ettinger, S. (eds.). _Jewish Society Through the Ages_. Schocken Books. 1971. [a survey of Jewish life edited by two distinguished Hebrew University professors and commissioned by UNESCO] [Ben76] Ben-Sasson, H. H. (ed.). _A History of the Jewish People_ (by scholars at the Hebrew U, Jerusalem). English translation: Harvard University Press, 1976. Hebrew: Dvir Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 1969. 1170 pp. ISBN 0-674-39730-4. [Dim62] Dimont, Max. _Jews, G@d, and History_. Signet Books, New York. 1962. [Note: May not be completely reliable] [Fin38] Finkelstein, Louis. _The Pharisees: The Sociological Background of Their Faith_. Jewish Publication Society. 1938. [a two volume classic] [Fin71a] Finkelstein, Louis (ed.). _The Jews: Their History_. Schocken Books. 1971 (4th ed.). [a comprehensive description of Judaism and the Jews, edited by the late Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary] [Fin71b] Finkelstein, Louis (ed.). _The Jews: Their Religion and Culture_. Schocken Books. 1971 (4th ed.). [a comprehensive description of Judaism and the Jews, edited by the late Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary] [Fin71c] Finkelstein, Louis (ed.). _The Jews: Their Role in Civilization_. Schocken Books. 1971 (4th ed.). [a comprehensive description of Judaism and the Jews, edited by the late Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary] [Goi74] Goiten S.D. _Jews and Arabs: Their Contacts Through the Ages_. Schocken Books. 1974 (3ed.) [a classic historical survey] [Gra67] Grayzel, Solomon. _A History of the Jews_. Jewish Publishing Society, Philadelphia. 1967. ISBN 0-8276-0142-5. [Good overview. A good general perspective on Jewish history. Not Orthodox.] [Hal84a] Hallo, William, Ruderman, David, & Stanislawski (eds.). _Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (Source Reader)_. Praeger Publishers. 1984. [primary materials designed to parallel the TV series; Hallo is professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale, Ruderman chairs Yale's Judaica Department, Stanislawski is professor of Jewish History at Columbia] [Hal84b] Hallo, William, Ruderman, David, & Stanislawski. _Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (Study Guide). Praeger Publishers. 1984. [primary materials designed to parallel the TV series; Hallo is professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale, Ruderman chairs Yale's Judaica Department, Stanislawski is professor of Jewish History at Columbia] [Isa89] Isaacs, Jacob. _Our People_ 6 vols. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 1989. [History up unto the modern era from the traditional point of view] [Rot66] Roth, Cecil. _A History of the Jews_. Schocken, New York. rev. ed. 1966. also in paperback. [Sel80] Seltzer, Robert. M. _Jewish People, Jewish Thought: The Jewish Experience in History_. Macmillan Publishing Co, New York, 1980. ISBN: 0-02-408940-8. [An intellectual history. Shows the development of Jewish ideas and concepts. On the level of an advanced undergrad or grad textbook and is not always easy going.] [Wei90] Wein, Berel. _Triumph of Survival: The Story of Jews in the Modern Age, 1650-1990_. Shaar Press, NY (Yeshivah Shaarei Torah, 36 Carlton Rd, Suffern NY). 1990. [A fine history from the Orthodox perspective.] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.7. NOACHIDE LAWS [Clo87] Clorfene, Chaim and Yaakov Rogalsky. _The Path of the Righteous Gentile_. Smithfield, MI: Targum Press, 1987 [Gal--] Gallin, Aryeh. _The Root and Branch Noachide Guide_. Root and Branch Association, Ltd, 504 Grand Street, #E51, New York, NY 10002-4101. [Lic81] Lichtenstein, Aaron. _The Seven Laws of Noah_. The Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Press, New York. 1981. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.8. TORAH AND TALMUD Note: There's lots of information on Torah and Talmud (understatement of the year), and one should contact a competent rabbi for guided study. [JPS17] Jewish Publication Society. _The Holy Scripture According to the Masoretic Text_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA. 1917. [JPS62] Jewish Publication Society. _The Torah: The Five Books of Moses_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA. 1962. ISBN 0-8276-0015-1. [JPS69] Jewish Publication Society. _The Five Megilloth and Jonah: A New Translation_. Introduction by H L Ginsberg. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia. 1969. ISBN 0-8276-0045-3. [JPS85] Tanakh: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Jewish Publication Society. ISBN 0-8276-0252-9 (cloth) 0-3276-0264-2 (leatherette).[0-8276-0283-9] [Abr91] Abrams, Judith. _Talmud for Beginners_. 2 vols (Part I and II). Jason Aaronson, New York. 1991 and 1993. [Selections of Jewish Book Club, designed as "pre-steinsaltz", i.e., introduction to Talmud for those with no background in it at all.] [Hes62] Heschel, Abraham Joshua. _The Prophets_. JPS, Philadelphia. 1962. [Her76] Hertz, J. H. _The Pentateuch and Haftorahs_. Soncino, London. 1976. [Hir63] Hirsch, S. R. _The Pentateuch_. Translated from the German by Isaac Levy. Irish University Press. 1963. [Isa50] ben Isaiah, (Rabbi) Abraham, and Sharfman, (Rabbi) Binyamin, in collaberation with Dr. Harry M. Orlinsky and Rabbi Dr. Morris Charner. _The Pentateuch and Rashi's Commentary: A Linear Translation into English_. 5 vols. SS&R Publishing Co., JPS, Philadelphia PA. 1950. [A very useable translation as the wording and linear translation are broken up to make both the Hebrew and English readable together. The Rash is printed in started Hebrew print with the vowels put in besides the linear translation.] [Jud??] Judaica Press. _Prophets and Writings_. Judaica Press, NY. [A new, modern, traditional translation of text and classic commentaries, including all of Rashi, with Hebrew text. Judaica Press has also indicated that they will be putting out an equivalent for the Torah.] [Kap??a] Kaplan, Aryeh. _The Living Torah_, translated and with commentary. Moznaim, NY. [This book deserves special mention as a study text. Many groups, including Reform, use him as a source because of this superiority.] [Kap8-] Kaplan, A. _The Torah Anthology_. 19 vols. Moznaim, NY. 198-. [Volumes cover the Torah, with separate ones on megillahs and Psalms, translated from the classic Ladino work Me'Am Loez. An amazing compendium of insights and commentary. See note above.] [Ros34] Rosenbaum, M. and Silbermann, A. M. _Pentateuch with Targum Onkelos, Hapthraroth and Rashi's Commentary_. 5 vols. Hebrew Publishing Company, New York. 1934. [Sac91] Sachs, Jonathan. _Torah Studies_ Kehot, NY. 1991. [From the Chasidic point of view, short essays on the weekly Torah reading based on talks of the Lubavitch Rebbe.] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.9. MISHNAH AND TALMUD Artscroll Series. Mesorah Publications, 4401 Second Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11232. Artscroll has some highly recommended series on Mishnah and Talmud, as well as a series on Chumash and Nach. One contributer to the list said: "The only reason [I] cannot say that the Artscroll texts are ``head and shoulders'' above the rest is that the others do not come up to Artscroll's shoulders. The translation and commentary are so superior to others such as Soncino as to make it no comparison." [Alb52] Albeck, H. and Yalon, H. _Shisha Sidre Mishnah_. 6 vols. Bialik Institute, Jerusalem. 1952-1956. [Esp35] Epstein, Isidore, ed. _The Babylonian Talmud with Introduction and Commentary_. Soncino Press, London. Vol 1-36. 1935-1952. Kahati, Pinchas. _Elucidated Mishna Series_. World Zionist Organization Torah Education Dept. [An English translation of his Mishna Mevueres series which has become extremely popular. His scholarship and clarity make it an extremely useful sefer. Currently being published, together with a translation of the Mishnah, by Feldheim.] [Lie55a] Lieberman, Saul. _The Tosefta_. 3 vols to date. Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. 1955-. [Note: for those with good Hebrew skills] [Lie55b] Lieberman, Saul. _Tosefta ki-Feshutah_. 11 vols to date. Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. 1955-. [Note: for those with good Hebrew skills] [Ste69] Steinsaltz, Adin, ed. _The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition_. 8 vols. to date. Israel Institute of Talmudic Publications, Jerusalem. 1969-. [So far, 5 volumes of Tractate Bava Metzia, and 3 volumes of Tractate Ketubot have been published.] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.10. TORAH AND TALMUDIC COMMENTARY [Cha76] Chavel, Charles B. (trans.). _Ramban (Nachmanides) Commentary on the Torah_. Shilo Publishing, NY, 1976; ISBN# 0-88328-010-8 [A translation of the 2nd most used commentary (after Rashi)] [Cha67] Chavel, Charles B. (trans.). _The Commandments: Sefer Ha-Mitzvoth of Maimonides_ Soncino, London. 1967. [A translation of Maimonides's Sefer HaMitzvot, a list and explaination of the 613 commandments. Won lots of awards.] [Chi74] Chill, Abraham. _The Mitzvot: The Commandments and Their Rationale_. Bloch, New York. 1974. [CohA75] Cohen, A. _Everyman's Talmud_. Dutton, New York. 1948. (hardback) Schocken, New York. 1975. (paperback) [JPS--] Jewish Publication Society. _The JPS Torah Commentary_. 5 vols. JPS: Philadelphia PA. ISBNs 0-8276-0326-6 (Genesis, 1989), 0-8276-0328.2 (Leviticus, 1989), 0-8276-0329-0 (Numbers, 1989), 0-8276-0327-4 (Exodus, 1991), 0-8276-0330-4 (Deut.). . [Mie69] Mielziner, Moses. _Introduction to the Talmud_. Bloch, New York. 1969. [New80] Newman, Aryeh. _Studies in the Pentateuch_ (by Prof. Nechama Leibowitz). World Zionist Organization Torah Education Dept. 1980 [This is based on Professor Leibowitz's weekly Parsha study sheets that were mailed all over the world in the fifties. They contain a set of discussions of each parsha with basic concepts learned from the meforshim.] [Rab88] Rabinowich, N.D. _The Iggeres of Rav Sherira Gaon_. Ahavath Torah Institute-Moznaim Press, Brooklyn NY. 1988. [Written in Aramaic in 4747 (987 CE), it is a history of the mesorah from Sinai until his day. Translated into both Hebrew and English] [Ste76] Steinsaltz, Adin. _The Essential Talmud_. Basic Books, New York. 1976. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.11. MIDRASH [Bra81] Braude, William G. and Kapstein, Israel J. (trans.) _Tanna Debe Eliyyahu: The Lore of the School of Elijah_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA. 1981. ISBN 0-8276-0174-3. [Gin46] Ginzberg, Louis, _Legends of the Jews_. 7 vols. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia. 1946. ISBNs 0-8276-0340-1 (Creation to Jacob), 0-8276-0341-X (Joseph to Exodus), 0-8276-0342-8 (Exodus to Death of Moses), 0-8276-0343-6 (Joshua to Esther), 0-8276-0344-4 (Notes to Vols I and II), 0-8276-0345-2 (Notes to Vols III and IV), 0-8276-0346-0 (Index). [Gla62] Glatzer, Nahum N. ed. _Hammer on the Rock: A Midrash Reader_. Schocken, New York. 1962. Paperback. [Draws material from the nonlegal parts of the Talmud the Haggadah ... and the midrashic writings.] [Lau76] Lauterbach, Jacob Z. (ed., trans.) _Mekilta De-Rabbi Ishmael_. JPS: Philadelphia PA. 1976. ISBN 0-8276-0078-X. [Mon70] Montefiore, C.G. and Loewe, H. eds. _The Rabbinic Anthology_ Schocken Press, New York. 1970. [Has some strange sources/references] [Wei80] Weissman, Rabbi Moshe. _The Midrash Says_. (5 vols). Benei Yakov Publications. Brooklyn, NY. 1980. [Adaptation of midrashim on each Torah section, with sources. Extremely faithful to the original, recommended among the Orthodox and used by observant teachers. Probably the best English language source for the range of Midrashic material. Also available in a children's edition, _The Little Midrash Says_, which includes Joshua.] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.12. HALACHIC CODES Note: This section assumes a level of knowledge of Hebrew and general halacha. Consult your local Rabbi. [Mai--] Maimonides, Moses. _Mishneh Torah_. Various editions. [A new edition into Hebrew from the original Arabic with lengthy discussions by Y. Shilat is available from Ma'aliyot Press (that's the hesder Yeshiva in Ma'alei Adumim). It is supposed to be extensively cross indexed and well done]. [Ash--] ben Asher, Jacob. _Arbaah Turim_. Various editions. [Kar--] Karo, Joseph. _Shulhan Arukh_. Various editions. [Note that the _Mapah_ of R. Moshe Isserles (the Ramah) is actually printed as parenthetical text in the Shulchan Aruch of Rav Yoseph Karo. The Ramah printed his comments to show the standard Ashkenazic determinations especially where they differed from the Sefardic customs of R' Karo. As a result, the Shulchan Aruch serves as the standard halachic source text of both Sephardim (R. Karo's original) and Ashkenazim (as modified by the Ramah).] [Gol63] Goldin, Hyman E. (trans.). _The Code of Jewish Law_. Hebrew Publishing Co., New York NY. 1963. [This is an English translation of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, which is a completely different work from the Shulchan Aruch. The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch was written in the late 1800's by Rabbi Shlomo Gantzfried and is a summary collection of Halachah for every day practice divided into categories. The Jewish Catalog cautions against using the _Kitzur Shulhan Arukh_ of Shlomo Ganzfried, which it states is "a collection of ultrastringent views often without firm basis in halakhic sources". However, other contributors think it provides lots of information on specific practices, but can be overwealming. As usual, it is probably best to ask your Rabbi.] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.13. BECOMING AN OBSERVANT JEW Note: Books such as Donin's _To Be A Jew_ and _To Pray As A Jew_ are also a good place to start Teshuvah. You'll also find good information in the _Jewish Catalog_ series, especially the 2nd and 3rd volumes. Quoting from the "Guide to Baalei Teshuvah" in the 2nd volume of the Jewish Catalog: "Jewish tradition places an emphasis on the role of belief and allegiance. Thus the baal teshuvah -- master of repentance; one who turns -- often begins his/her trek back to an effective and gratifying Jewish consciousness through the renewed acceptance of neglected observances and symbols". [Sei87] Steinsaltz, [Rabbi] Adin. _Teshuvah: A Guide for the Newly Observant Jew_.Jerusalem: The Domino Press, 1982. (English Translation: The Free Press, 1987.) [Tat87] Tatz, Akiva. _Anatomy of a Search: Personal Drama in the Teshuva Revolution_. Mesorah, Brooklyn NY. 1987. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.14. WOMEN AND JUDAISM [Aik92] Aiken, Lisa. _To Be a Jewish Woman_. Aronson, Northvale NJ. 1992. [Ble89] Bletter, Diana (interviews), Grinker, Lori (photos). _The Invisible Thread: Portraits of American Jewish Women_. JPS: Philadelphia PA. 1989. ISBN 0-8276-0333-9 (Cloth) -7 (Paper). [Fra92] Frankiel, Tamar. _The Voice of Sarah_. Harpercollins, San Francisco, 1992. [A feminist and observant Jew wrestles with the Jewish feminine mystique]. [Gre81] Greenberg, Blu. _On Women and Judaism: A View From Tradition_. JPS: Philadelphia PA. 1981. ISBN 0-8276-0226-X. [Mei78] Meiselman, Moshe. _Jewish Woman in Jewish law_. Ktav Publishing House, New York. 1978. [Wen90] Wenkart, Henny (ed.). _Sarah's Daughters Sing, a Sampler of Poems_. Ktav, Noboken NJ. 1990. There are other books relating to traditional views of the womens role in family life to be found in Section II.6, "LIFE, DEATH, AND IN-BETWEEN", of the reading list (the "traditional" file). ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: I.15. SCIENCE AND JUDAISM [Car76] Carmell, Aryeh and Domb, Cyril, eds. _Challenge: Torah Views on Science_. New York: Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists/Feldheim Publishers, 1976. [Kap93] Kaplan, Aryeh. _Immortality, Resurrection, and the Age of the Universe: A Kabbalistic View_. Ktav Publishing (Hoboken, NJ) in association with the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists (New York, NY). 169 pages. 1993. ISBN 0-88125-345-6. [In five essays, the late physicist and Torah educator Kaplan draws on traditional sources to show how Torah and science are consonant in relation to the issues of the age of the universe, the fossil record, longevity, immortality, and resurrection.] [Lan91] Landa, Judah. _Torah and Science_. Ktav Publishing (Hoboken, NJ). 1991. [Focuses on Torah and technology: Basic Geometry, Special Numbers, The Earth, The Heavenly Bodies, The Seasons, The Moon, Celestial Visitors, Laws of Nature, Creation vs Evolution, and the Universe.] ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. End of Judaism Reading List Part I (General) Digest ************************** Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/traditional Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Part II: Traditional Liturgy, Practice, Lifestyle, Holidays [Last Change: $Date: 1993/09/05 18:07:46 $ $Revision: 2.3 $] [Last Post: Fri Aug 6 11:09:58 1993] There is nothing more uniquely characteristic of the style of Jewish religious life than the great love Jews have for holy books. [Sie73] This list provides a collection of sources on "traditional" practice for readers of soc.culture.jewish. While no book can substitute for a formal course of instruction guided by one's Rabbi, these books are useful as reference material for the knowledgeable, and as an introduction for the not-yet-knowledgeable about Judaism. It is difficult to separate what is now termed "Orthodox" judaism from the collective term "Judaism". The practices of Orthodoxy tend to be the traditional practices. Furthermore, Orthodoxy is not organized as a movement in the same sense as Reform or Conservative; although Orthodox organizations exist, congregations do not need to join them to be considered Orthodox. This list is organized as a digest, and may be undigestified by a program such as "gnus". Information on where to obtain these books, including an explanation of the and notations, may be found in Part I of the Reading List (judaism/reading-lists/general). ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and Credits This list is based on an original list developed by Rob Levine, which was last posted to the net in February of 1991. Rob's list was culled from s.c.j. postings as well as the bibliographies of some of the books on this list. This original list has been augmented based on bibliographic research done by D. Faigin at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, as well as contributions from readers of s.c.j, mail.jewish, and mail.liberal-judaism. It is also based on suggestions found in the excellent _Jewish Catalog_ series, which would serve anyone well as a sourcebook on Judaism. Contributions to the list have also been made by: Jonathan Baker, Ed Cohen, Rachel Kaplan, David Kaufmann, Shaul Wallach, Len Moskowitz, and Hillel Markowitz. As usual, suggestions for additions or deletions are welcome, as are *brief* annotations for any entry. All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on israel.nysernet.org [192.77.173.2] in the directory: ~ftp/israel/lists/scj-faq They are available in the rtfm.mit.edu archives in the directory: pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism The following files make up the reading lists and are in the "reading-lists" subdirectory: general, traditional, chasidism, reform, conservative, reconstructionist, humanistic, zionism, antisemitism, intermarriage, periodicals. The following files make up the FAQ and are in the "FAQ" subdirectory: 01-FAQ-intro, 02-Who-We-Are, 03-Torah-Halacha, 04-Observance, 05-Worship, 06-Jewish-Thought, 07-Jews-As-Nation, 08-Israel, 09-Antisemitism, 10-Miscellaneous. The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: II.1. TRADITIONAL LITURGY [Bir49] Birnbaum, Phillip ed. and trans. _Daily Prayer Book_. Hebrew Publishing Company, New York. 1949. [Her48] Hertz, Joseph Herman. _The Authorised Daily Prayer Book_. Bloch, New York. 1948. [She84] Scherman, Nosson. _The Complete Artscroll Siddur_. Mesorah Press, NY. 1984 (Ashkenazi) 1985 (Sephardi). [Traditional prayerbook with extensive commentary] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: II.2. TRADITIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS [Alb29] Albo, Joseph. _Sefer ha-Ikkarim: Book of Principles_. 4 vols. JPS, Philadelphia, PA. 1929-1930. [Bla62] Blau, Joseph L. _The Story of Jewish Philosophy_. Random House, New York. 1962. [Gao48] Gaon, Saadia. _The Book of Beliefs and Opinions_. Trans. by Samuel Roseblatt. Yale University, New Haven. 1948. [Hal64] Halevi, Judah. _The Kuzari: The Book of Proof and Argument_. Schocken, NY. 1964. [Translation of a classic medieval Jewish philosophical work] [Luc90] Luzzatto, Moshe Chayim, _The Path of the Just (Mesilat Yesharim)_, 3rd edition, Feldheim, Jerusalem/NY, 1966/1990, ISBN 0-87306-115-2 (paperback), ISBN 0-87306-114-4 (hardcover), ISBN 0-87306-239-6 (compact hardcover) [Luz83] Luzzatto, Moshe Chayim, _The Way of God (Derekh Hashem)_, 4th edition, Feldheim, Jerusalem/NY, 1977/1983, translation by Aryeh Kaplan, ISBN 0-87306-338-4 (hardcover), ISBN 0-87306-344-9 (paperback) [Luz82] Luzzatto, Moshe Chayim, _The Knowing Heart (Daat T'vunot), Philosophy of G-d's Oneness_, Feldheim, Jerusalem/NY, 1982, ISBN 0-87306-194-2 [MaiXX] Maimonides, Moses, _The Guide for the Perplexed._ Multiple editions available. Two translations that have been cited are: [Fri56] Friedlander, M. Dover, New York, 1956, ISBN 486-20351-4 [Pin64] Pines, S. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL. 1964. [Pak25] Bahya B. Joseph ibn Pakuda. _Duties of the Heart_. Translated by Moses Hyamson. 5 vols. Bloch, New York. 1925-1947. Reprinted 2 vols by Boys Town, Jerusalem, 1962. [Sil67] Silverstein, Shraga (trans.); Rabbeinu Yonah of Gerona (auth.). _Gates of Repentance_. The Torah Classics Library; Feldheim Publishers 1967; Lib. of Cong. Cat. # 67-19189 [Tel--] Teller, Hanoch. Various Anthologies. Feldheim Publishers, NY. [Teller uses stories (based on actual happenings disguised to protect the people involved) to illustrate how one should behave. His major theme is how one should relate to his fellow man.] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: II.3. PRAYER [Jac72] Jacobs, Louis. _Hasidic Prayer_ Schocken, New York. 1972. [Kon72] Kon, Abraham. _Prayer_. Soncino Press, London. 1972. [Mar68] Martin, Bernard. _Prayer in Judaism_. Basic Books, New York. 1968. [Mil71] Millgram, Abraham. _Jewish Worship_. JPS, Philadelphia 1971. ISBN 0-3276-0003-8. [Min8?] Mindel, Nissan. _Ani Maamin_. 2 vols. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 198?. [Explains meanings behind prayers] [Mun63] Munk. _World of Prayer_. Feldheim, NY. 1963. [Includes mystical explanations of prayers. Possibly out of print.] [Pet72] Petuchowski, Jakob J. _Understanding Jewish Prayer_. Ktav, New York, 1972. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: II.4. TRADITIONAL PRACTICE [Don72] Donin, Hayim. _To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life_. Basic Books, New York. 1972. [Don80] Donin, Hayim. _To Pray as a Jew_. Basic Books, New York. 1980. [For88] Forst, Rabbi Binyamin and Twerski, Rabbi Aaron. _The Law of B'rachos_. Mesorah. Brooklyn, NY. 1988. [A Comprehensive exposition of the background and laws of blessings] [Tre80] Trepp, Leo. _The Complete Book of Jewish Observance._ New York: Berman House/Summit Books, 1980. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: II.5. THE HOUSEHOLD [Dre59] Dresner, Samuel H and Siegel, Seymour. _The Jewish Dietary Laws_. Burning Bush Press, New York. 1959. [Not universally accepted, but many recommend it. May be more of Conservative/Modern Orthodox viewpoint] [Eps81] Epstein, Rabbi Joseph D. _Mitzvot Habayit: The Precepts of the Jewish Home_ (translated by Gershon Taschman). Torath HaAdam Institute, New York, 1981. [Translation of the introduction to the author's comprehensive work of the same name in Hebrew.] [Gre83] Greenberg, Blu. _How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household_. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1983. [Kit63] Kitov, A.E. _The Jew and His Home._ New York: Shengold, 1963. [Lev64] Levi, Shonie and Kaplan, Sylvia. _Guide for the Jewish Homemaker_. Schocken Books, New York. 1964. [Lub89] Lubavitch Women's Organization. _Body and Soul: A Handbook for Kosher Living_, Lubavitch Women's Cookbook Pub, NY. 1989. [Short introduction to kosher basics.] [Lub90] Lubavitch Women's Organization. _Spice and Spirit: Complete Kosher Jewish Cookbook_. Lubavitch Women's Cookbook Pub, NY, 1990. [Contains detailed information about the laws of kashrut and holidays from the Lubavitch point of view and thus follows Lubavitch customs regarding Kashrut; for non-Lubavitch, use in conjunction with other Kashrut references. Lots of traditional recipes that tend not to fail, if followed. Good section on Passover baking.] [RCA72] Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Rabbinical Council of America. _Kashruth: Handbook for Home and School_ UOJCA, New York. 1972. [Ros91] Rosenberg, Ehud. _Meat and Dairy, an illustrted guide for the Kosher Kitchen_. Mesorah, NY. 1991. [Uses pictures to teach about kashrut.] [Sym88] Syme, Daniel. _The Jewish Home_. UAHC Press, New York. 1988. [Reform] Also, every Jewish household, if you're at all interested in Kashrus, should subscribe to Kashrus Magazine, published by Yeshiva Birkas Reuven. For information, contact Kashrus at P.O. Box 204, Brooklyn NY 11204. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: II.6. LIFE, DEATH, AND IN-BETWEEN [Abr88] Abranov, Tehilla. _Secret of Jewish Femininity_. Targum, NY. 1988. [Sensitive, detailed, sympatheic discussion of laws of mikveh, family purity and marital relations.] [Ada87] Adahan, Miriam, _EMETT: A step-by-step guide to emotional maturity through Torah_. Feldheim, 1987. [Mrs. Adahan's basic premise is that man can attain happiness and emotional satisfaction in life by training himself to think positively about the events which befall him. She gives a complete scheme for identifying negative thought patterns and modifying them, illustrated by many examples from real life.] [Ada88] Adahan, Miriam, _Raising Children to Care: A Jewish Guide to Childrearing._ Feldheim, 1988. [Using the principles developed in her previous book _EMETT_, Mrs. Adahan displays her thorough understanding of personality development in the application of these principles to bringing up children. While addressed primarily to mothers, a short chapter to fathers touches briefly but forcefully on the marital relationship.] [Ada92] Adahan, Miriam, _It's All a Gift (though it may not seem like it at first glance)_. Feldheim, 1992. [Mrs. Adahan's principles are similarly applied to help people cope with misfortune. Divided into some 5 parts, Part II of the book deals with marriage and deals with common sources of marital discord.] [Amr68] Amram, David Werner. _The Jewish Law of Divorce._ Herman, Boston. 1968. [Bas90] Basri, Sima. _The Challenge of Two_. (translated by Edward Levin). Ktav, 1990. [Written by a counsellor for young couples and wife of an eminent Rabbinical judge in Israel, Mrs. Basri's popular guide addresses all the major challenges facing young couples in plain, clear language.] [Bra51] Brav, Stanley Rosenbaum, ed. _Marriage and the Jewish Tradition_ Philosophical Library, New York. 1951. [Bul86] Bulka, Rabbi Reuven P. _Jewish Marriage: A Halachic Ethic_. Ktav, Yeshiva University Press, 1986. [Very thorough with many source references; treats modern-day problems as well.] [Bul92] Bulka, Rabbi Reuven P. _Jewish Divorce Ethics_. Ivy League Press, Ogdensburg NY. 1992. [Fel68] Feldman, David. _Birth Control in Jewish Law_. NYU, New York. 1968. [The most comprehensive study available on Jewish attitudes about contraception, abortion, etc.] [Fel87] Felsman, Aharon. _The River, the Kettle, and the Bird: A Torah Guide to a Successful Marriage_. Feldheim, 1987. [Fri68] Fried, Jacob, ed. _Jews and Divorce_ Ktav, New York. 1968. [Fri90] Friedman, Rabbi Manis. _Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore?: Reclaiming Intimacy, Modesty, and Sexuality_ (edited by Jena Morris Breninstall). Harper, San Francisco, 1990. [Collection of popular lectures by a charismatic Lubavitcher Hassidic maggid, widely acclaimed by both Jewish and non-Jewish commentators.] [Gol88] Gold, Michael. _And Hannah Wept: Infertility, Adoption, and the Jewish Couple_. JPS: Philadelphia PA. 1988. ISBN 0-8276-0306-1. [Gol??] Goldman, Alex J. _Handbook for the Jewish Family_. [Kap83] Kaplan, Rabbi Aryeh. _Made in Heaven: A Jewish Wedding Guide_. Moznaim Publishing, Brooklyn, NY, 1983. [Kau92] Kaufman, Machael. _Love, Marriage, and Family in Jewish Law_. Aronson, Northvale NJ. 1992. [Kit??] Kitov, Rabbi A. E. _The Jew and His Family_. (14th ed.) (translated by Rabbi Nathan Bulman). Shengold Publishers, New York. [This classic by the late Rabbi Kitov (author of "Book of the Heritage") is the pioneering book on the Jewish family. First published in Hebrew about 1966, is still a valuable compendium of concepts and customs.] [Lam82] Lamm, Maurice. _The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage_. Harper and Row, New York. 1982. ISBN 0-06-064916-X. [Lam72] Lamm, Norman. _A Hedge of Roses: Jewish Insights into Marriage and Married Life_. Feldheim, NY. 1972, [Brief explanation of the laws of family purity.] [Leb88] Lebovits, Yehudah. _Shidduchim and Zivugim: The Torah Perspective in Finding Your Mate_. Feldheim, 1988. [Lev86] Levi, Miriam. _Effective Jewish Parenting_. Feldheim, 1986. [Mrs. Levi uses the principles of cognitive psychology to help parents (especially mothers) cope with their own feelings during the trials and tribulations of childrearing. The book is richly illustrated by examples from real life and should be read by husband and wife together in order to arrive at a harmonized treatment of children and thus eliminate a significant potential source of dissension.] [Pli75] Pliskin, Rabbi Zelig. _Guard your Tongue_. (Adapted from _Chofetz Chaim_). NJ, Gross Bros., 1975. [Rad89] Radcliffe, Sarah C. _Aizer Knegdo: Jewish Woman's Guide to Happiness in Marriage_. Targum Press (dist. Feldheim), 1989. [Sto67] Stolper, [Rabbi] Pinchas M. _Jewish Alternatives in Love, Dating and Marriage_. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc. 1967,1984. Co-published by the NCSY. [Tau91] Tauber, Rabbi Ezriel. _To Become One: The Torah Outlook on Marriage_. Shalheves, New York (dist. Feldheim), 1991. [Conceptual development of the Jewish view on marriage by a veteran marriage counsellor, presented as a dialogue with a couple who have come for treatment. While confined to the basic concepts, is very stimulating intellectually.] [Ten88] Tendler, Rabbi Moshe D. _Pardes Rimonim: A Marriage for the Jewish Family_ (revised edition). Ktav, Hoboken, NJ, 1988. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: II.7. THE CYCLE OF HOLIDAYS [Spi86] Spier, Arthur. _The Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar_. Feldheim Publishers, Jerusalem/New York, 3rd revised edition, 1986. [Not only a calendar-date book, but easily gives anniversaries, Parashioth, Haphtaroth as well as elements of calendar calculations without straing one's eyes at the computer.] [Agn65] Agnon, S. Y. _Days of Awe_. Schocken, New York. 1965. [Dre70] Dresner, Samuel H. _The Sabbath_. Burning Book Press, New York. 1970. [Gre88] Greenberg, Irving. _The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays_. Summit Books, New York. 1988. [From the traditional, but not fundamentalist, point of view. Non-Orthodox practice is handled with respect.] [Gru72] Grunfeld, I. _The Sabbath: A Guide to Its Understanding and Observance_. Feldheim Publishers, Jerusalem. 1966. [Hes51] Heschel, Abraham Joshua. _The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man_. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York. 1951. [Kit70] Kitov, Eliyahu. _The Book of Our Heritage: The Jewish Year and Its Days of Significance_. 3 vols. Feldheim, New York. 1970. [JPS??] The Jewish Publication Society publishes an anthology series on the holidays. Volumes available include: _Yom Kippur Anthology_ (Goodman, P.; 1971), _Rosh Hashana Anthology_ (Goodman, P.; 1970), _Sabbath: The Day of Delight_ (Millgram, A.; 1965), _Purim Anthology_ (Goodman, P.; 1949), _Hanukah Anthology_ (Solis-Cohen, E.; 1937), _Passover Anthology_ (Goodman, P.; 1961), and _Sukkot and Simhat Torah Anthology_ (Goodman, P.; 1973). [Neu74] Neuwirth, Rav Yehoshua Y. _Shemirath Shabbath: A Guide to the Practical Observance of Shabbath_. 2 vols. Translation of the second edition of the Hebrew - Shemiras Shabbas Kehilchaso. Volume I: Chapters 1-22; Volume II: Chapter 23 to the end. Feldheim Publishers, 96 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002. 1974. [An excellent source for practical halachos of shabbos.] [Str85] Strassfeld, Michael. _Jewish Holidays: A Guide and Commentary_. Harper & Row, New York. 1985. [Zev57] Zevin, Rav Schlomo Yosef. _Moadim b'Halacha_. Abramahm Tsioni, Tel Aviv. 1957. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. End of Judaism Reading List Part II (Traditional) Digest ************************** Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/chasidism Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Part III: The Messiah, Kaballah, and Chasidism [Last Change: $Date: 1993/09/05 18:07:50 $ $Revision: 2.3 $] [Last Post: Fri Aug 6 11:10:23 1993] There is nothing more uniquely characteristic of the style of Jewish religious life than the great love Jews have for holy books. [Sie73] This list provides a collection of sources on the more mystical and exuberant side of traditional Judaism. Note that for some of these areas, in particular Kaballah, there has traditionally been great caution. This is deep material here, folks. Make sure you have your water wings :-). Note that no book can substitute for a formal course of instruction guided by one's Rabbi. Note: The books on this list primarily reflect the Chasidic point of view on these subjects. Where appropriate, books from non-Chasidic points of view are included, but are clearly indicated as such. Availability Notes: All books published by Kehot may be ordered from Kehot at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York. The same is true for books published by Sichos in English. For information on where to obtain other books, including an explanation of the and notations, consult Part I of the Reading List (judaism/reading-lists/general). This list is organized as a digest; it may be successfully undigestified by programs such as "gnus". ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and Credits This list is based on an original list developed by Rob Levine, which was last posted to the net in February of 1991. Rob's list was culled from s.c.j. postings as well as the bibliographies of some of the books on this list. This original list has been augmented based on bibliographic research done by D. Faigin at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, as well as contributions from readers of s.c.j, mail.jewish, and mail.liberal-judaism. It is also based on suggestions found in the excellent _Jewish Catalog_ series, which would serve anyone well as a sourcebook on Judaism. Contributions to the list have also been made by: David Kaufmann, David A Guberman, Rabbi Mark Glickman, Len Moskowitz, Kay Tavill, and Yechezkal Gutfreund. As usual, suggestions for additions or deletions are welcome, as are *brief* annotations for any entry. All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on israel.nysernet.org [192.77.173.2] in the directory: ~ftp/israel/lists/scj-faq They are available in the rtfm.mit.edu archives in the directory: pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism The following files make up the reading lists and are in the "reading-lists" subdirectory: general, traditional, chasidism, reform, conservative, reconstructionist, humanistic, zionism, antisemitism, intermarriage, periodicals. The following files make up the FAQ and are in the "FAQ" subdirectory: 01-FAQ-intro, 02-Who-We-Are, 03-Torah-Halacha, 04-Observance, 05-Worship, 06-Jewish-Thought, 07-Jews-As-Nation, 08-Israel, 09-Antisemitism, 10-Miscellaneous. The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: III.1. THE MESSIAH [Bot93] Boteach, Shmuel. _The Wolf Shall Lie Down With the Lamb_. Jacob Aronson Press, 1993. [An examination of the issues and concepts of Moshiach, as presented in the Talmud, Maimonides and other classic sources, including the public discourses of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.] [Pat79] Patai, Raphael; The Messiah Texts; Wayne State University Press, Detroit; 1979. [Ros82] Rosner, Fred, trans.; Maimonides, Moses. _Treatise on Resurrection_. Ktav, New York. 1982. [SchM91a] Schneersohn, Menachem M. _Awake the Dawn_. Sichos in English, Brooklyn NY. 1991. [Collection of public addresses] [SchM91b] Schneersohn, Menachem M. _I Await His Coming Every Day_. Sichos In English, Brooklyn NY. 1991. [Collection of public addresses] [SchM92] Schneersohn, Menachem M. _Sound the Great Shofar_. Sichos In English, Brooklyn NY. 1992. [Collection of public addresses] [Sho91] Shochet, J.I., _MASHIACH_, Sichos in English, Brooklyn, NY. 1991 [This is an analysis of sources] [Sil59] Silver, Abba Hillel; A History of Messianic Speculation in Israel; Beacon Press, Boston; 1927, 1959. [Sto91] Stone, Abraham. _Highlights of Moshiach_, Sichos In English, Brooklyn NY. 1991. [A collection of Midrashic and Talmudic sources] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: III.2. CHASIDISM Chabad publishes a quarterly magazine, _Wellsprings_, targeted at highly-educated but not necessarily religious Jews. For information, see the "periodicals" part of the reading list. [Dre60] Dresner, Samuel H. _The Zaddik: The Doctrine of the Zaddik According to the Writings of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef of Polnoy_. Abelard-Schuman, New Work. 1960. [Jac66] Jacobs, Louis. _The Seeker of Unity: The Life and Works of Aaron of Starosselje_. Basic Books, New York. 1966. [Kan90] Kantor, Mattis. _Chassidic Insights: A Guide for the Entangled_. Naran Chai Publications, Suite 272 119 Rockland Center, Nahuet NY, 10954. 1990. [Kap84] Kaplan, Aryeh. _Chassidic Masters_. Moznaim, NY. 1984. [Short biographies and excerpts from works of leading Chassidic rebbes of the 1st and 2nd generation] [Kap81] Kaplan, Aryeh. _The Light Beyond: Adventures in Hassidic Thought_. Moznaim, NY. 1981. [Collection of Chassidic sayings] [Min5?a] Mindel, Nissan. _Arrest and Liberation of Schneur Zalman of Liadi_. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 195?. [History of 19 of Kislev and mitnaged-Chassidic controversy] [Min5?b] Mindel, Nissan. _The Tzemeach Tzedek and the Haskalah Movement_. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 195?. [History of the struggle between traditional Judaism and enlightenment in mid-1850's] [Min--] Mindel, Nissan. _The Great Maggid_. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. [Biography of the Maggid of Mezritch, 2nd leader of Chassidism] [Min70] Mintz, Jerome R. and Ben Amos, Dan. _In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov (Shivhei ha-Besht): The Earlies Collections of Legends about the Founder of Hasidism_. Indiana University, Bloomington IN. 1970. [Rub72] Rubin, Israel. _Satmar, An Island in the City_. Quadrangle Books, New York. 1972. [SchD88] Schneersohn, Dov Ber. _Heichaltzu_. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 1988. [Seminal discussion of a basic Chassidic concept] [SchD92] Schneersohn, Dov Ber. _Tract on Prayer_. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 1992. [Explains how to concentrate in prayer] [SchJ56] Schneersohn, Joseph I. __Memoirs_. 2 vols. Otzar HaChasidim, Brooklyn NY. 1956-1960. [Labavitcher Rebbe's memoirs] [SchJ59] Schneersohn, Joseph I. _On Learning Chassidus_. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 1959. [SchJ61] Schneersohn, Joseph I. _Some Aspects of Chabad Chassidim_. Machne Israel, 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY. 1961. [SchJ8?] Schneersohn, Joseph I. _Likutei Diburim_. 3 vols. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 198?. [Memoirs and sermons] [SchJ89] Schneersohn, Joseph I. _Basi L'Gani_. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 1989. [Last published discourse of the previous Rebbe, discusses the purpose of creation. Has become a classic and required reading for understanding Chabad/Chassidic thought] [SchM8-] Schneersohn, M.M.. _Sichos in English_. 50+ volumes. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 198-. [Can be ordered individually. Contains translations of the Rebbe's public talks on a wide range of subjects] [Sch62] Schneur Zalman of Ladi. _Tanya_. 5 vols. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 1962. [Sho92] Shochet, J. I. _Likutei Sichot_. 3 vols. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 1992. [Translation of the 1st volume (Yiddish) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's public discourses on the weekly Torah reading] [Win92] Wineberg, Y. _Lessons in Tanya_. 4 vols. Kehot, NY. 1992. [Hebrew text, with translation and running commentary] [Zev80] Zevin, A. _Treasury of Chassidic Tales_. Mesorah. 1980. [Complete on the Torah and holidays] The following books are highly controversial. Most Orthodox scholars, and especially Chassidic thinkers and students of Chassidism, consider them unreliable; they have been accepted by most non-Orthodox scholars. [Bub58] Buber, Martin. _Hasidism and Modern Man_. Horizon, New York. 1958. [Bub60] Buber, Martin. _Origin and Meaning of Hasidism_. Horizon, New York. 1960. [Bub61] Buber, Martin. _Tales of the Hasidim_. 2 Vols. Schocken, New York. 1961. (Vol 1: The Early Masters; Vol 2: The Later Masters) ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: III.3. KABALLAH AND MYSTICISM [Gab92] Gabbai, Meir Ibn. _Avodat ha-Kodesh_. [The Jewish Catalog says of this "a beautifully written text which is also a great encyclopedia of the kabbalists' rereading of biblical and rabbinic sources (available only in a reprint of the more-or-less illegible Warsaw edition)"]. [Gik??] Gikatilia, Joseph. _Shaarei Oreh_ (new edition by Prof. Ben-Schomo). [Kap78] Kaplan, Aryeh, "Meditation and the Bible," Samuel Weiser Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1978, ISBN 0-87728-617-5 [Kap82] Kaplan, Aryeh. _Meditation and Kabbalah_. Samuel Weiser Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1982, ISBN 0-87728-616-7 [Kap85] Kaplan, Aryeh. _Jewish Meditation_. Schocken Books Inc., New York, 1985, ISBN 0-8052-4006-3 (hardcover), ISBN 0-8052-0781-3 (paperback) [Kap90] Kaplan, Aryeh. _Innerspace, Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation, and Prophecy_. Maznaim Publishing Corp., 4304 12th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11219, 718-438-7680, New York/Jerusalem, 1990. [Keh89] Kehot. _A Jewish Mysticism Primer_ Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 1989. [A collection of essays from an international conference] [Low90] Lowenthal, Naftali. _Communicating the Infinite_. University of Chicago, Chicago IL. 1990. [Sho90] Shochet, J. I. _The Mystical Dimension_. Kehot, Brooklyn NY. 1990. [3 volumes: _The Mystical Tradition_ (explains basics of Jewish mysticism), _Deep Calling unto Deep_ (mytical examination of prayer and repentence), _Chassidic Dimensions_ (Chassidic application of mysticism).] [Spe33] Sperling Harry, and Simon, Maruice, trans. _The Zohar_. Soncino, London. 1933 [Difficult to read without Hebrew text] [Wei69] Weiner, Herbert. _9 1/2 Mystics, The Kabbala Today_. Holt Rinehard and Winston, New York. 1969. The following books are highly controversial. Most Orthodox scholars, and especially Chassidic thinkers and students of Chassidism, consider them unreliable; they have been accepted by most non-Orthodox scholars. [Dan86] Dan, Joseph. _Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics_. Uiversity of Washington Press, Seattle WA. 1986. [Sch60] Scholem, Gershom. _Jewish Gnosticism, Merkvah Mysticism and Talmudic Tradition_. Ktav, New York. 1960. 2nd Ed. Block, New York. 1965. [Sch41] Scholem, Gershom. _Major trends in Jewish Mysticism_. Schocken, New York. 1941. [Sch65] Scholem, Gershom G. _On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism_. Schocken, New York. 1965. [Sch73] Scholem, Gershom G. _Sabbatai Sevi_. 2 vols. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton NJ. 1973. [Sch49] Scholem, Gershom G. _Zohar: The Book of Splendor-Basic Readings from the Kabbalah_. Schocken, New York. 1949. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. End of Judaism Reading List Part III (Chasidism) Digest ************************** Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/reform Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Part IV: Reform Judaism [Last Change: $Date: 1993/09/05 18:07:55 $ $Revision: 2.3 $] [Last Post: Fri Aug 6 11:10:50 1993] "In keeping with the mitzvah of Talmud Torah... a Jewish home should have a library, and time should be set aside for the study of Torah" [GoM75] This message is intended to provide readers of soc.culture.jewish with a list of references to allow them to learn more about the current practices, past practices, beliefs, and history of the Reform Movement with Judaism. One of the four major movements within Judaism, the Reform or Liberal Movement (the term "Reform" seems to be more prevalent in the U.S.A., "Liberal" or "Progressive" elsewhere) began in the 1800's in Germany during the enlightenment. Adherents to Reform typically do not follow all of the ritual practices of their traditional bretheren; practices that are followed are chosen based on how they increase the sanctity of the follower's life. In the United States, there are two principal organizations involved with Reform Judaism: 1) The CCAR or Central Conference of American Rabbis. Its members are the body of rabbis who consider themselves and are considered to be the organized rabbinate of Reform Judaism. Its members consist of Reform Rabbis ordained at the Hebrew Union College (HUC), as well as Reform Rabbis ordained at liberal seminaries in Europe, and some rabbis who joined the Reform movement sometime subsequent to ordination (most of these were ordained either at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary or the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College). Note that not all HUC graduates are CCAR members; some leave for ideological reasons or because they have joined a different movement. The CCAR publishes a quarterly rabbinic journal called _CCAR Journal_; see the publications part of the reading list (XI) for ordering information. 2) The UAHC or Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Its members are Reform Synagogues throughout America. It provides congregational support for Reform Congregations, as well as affiliated organizations that support Progressive Judaism outside the USA; brotherhoods; sisterhoods; youth activities; Jewish education; temple administrators, etc. This list is organized as a digest; it may be successfully undigestified by programs such as "gnus". ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Where Can I Get These Books From? CCAR All books published by the CCAR are available through the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Call 212/684-4990 for an up-to-date catalog or to order. UAHC Press 838 Fifth Avenue/New York NY 10021 (212) 249-0100/(212) 734-2857 FAX World Union for 838 Fifth Avenue/New York NY 10021 Progressive Judaism ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and Credits The list below is culled from suggestions on soc.culture.jewish, an additional reading list developed by R. A. Levene, and the author's personal experience. A large portion was based on "A Basic Library for The Jewish Home" in [Gom75]. "Netters" that have recommended books for the list or made suggestions include: Mark B. Novick, John Sadowsky, Rabbi Charles Arian, and others. All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on israel.nysernet.org [192.77.173.2] in the directory: ~ftp/israel/lists/scj-faq They are available in the rtfm.mit.edu archives in the directory: pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism The following files make up the reading lists and are in the "reading-lists" subdirectory: general, traditional, chasidism, reform, conservative, reconstructionist, humanistic, zionism, antisemitism, intermarriage, periodicals. The following files make up the FAQ and are in the "FAQ" subdirectory: 01-FAQ-intro, 02-Who-We-Are, 03-Torah-Halacha, 04-Observance, 05-Worship, 06-Jewish-Thought, 07-Jews-As-Nation, 08-Israel, 09-Antisemitism, 10-Miscellaneous. The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IV.1. REFORM BELIEFS [Bae58a] Baeck, Leo. _G@d and Man in Judaism_. UAHC, 1958. [Bor84] Borowitz, Eugene. _Liberal Judaism_. Union of American Hebrew Congregations Press. ISBN 08074-0264-8. 1984 [Coh48] Cohon, Samual S. _Judaism as a Way of Life_, UAHC Press, 1948. [Git83] Gittelsohn, Roland B. _The Extra Dimension: A Jewish View of Marriage_. UAHC Press, NY. 1983. #168500. ISBN 0-8074-0170-6. [Sym??] Syme, Daniel B. _An Overview of Reform Judaism_. UAHC. #280020. ISBN 0-8074-0260-5. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IV.2. REFORM RITUALS [GoM79] _Shaarei Mitzvah: Gates of Mitzvah, A Guide to the Jewish Life Cycle_. Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1979. ISBN 0-916694-37-2 Hardback, 0-916694-53-4 Pbk. [This book summarizes the Reform position on the life cycle events] [GoS83] _Shaarei Mo-Eid: Gates of the Seasons, A Guide to the Jewish Year_ CCAR. CCAR Press. ISBN 0-916694-92-5 Pbk 1983. [This book summarizes the Reform position on the year cycle events] [GoS91] _Shaarei Shabbat: Gates of Shabbat_. CCAR. CCAR Press. ISBN 0-88123-010-3. 1991. [This book provides Reform guidelines on Shabbat observance.] [Bar90] Barth, Lewis M. (ed.) _Berit Mila in the Reform Context_. UAHC #381631. Carol Pub. Group [for the] Berit Mila Board of Reform Judaism, Secaucus NJ. 1990. [Bia71] Bial, Morrison D. _Liberal Judaism at Home_. UAHC. #383110 ISBN 0-8074-0075-0. 1971. [Sch69] Schauss, Hayyim. _The Jewish Festivals: From Their Beginnings to Our Day_. UAHC, 1969. [Sch50] Schauss, Hayyim. _The Lifetime of a Jew_. UAHC. 1950. [Sym88] Syme, Daniel B. _The Jewish Home: A Guide for Jewish Living_. UAHC #142614. UAHC Press, New York. 1988. ISBN 0-8074-0400-4. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IV.3. REFORM LITURGY [GoP75] _Shaarei Tefila: Gates of Prayer: The New Union Prayerbook, Volume I_. Central Conference of American Rabbis. ISBN 0-916694-01-1. 1975. [Weekly prayerbook] [GoR78] _Shaarei Teshuva: Gates of Repentance: The New Union Prayerbook, Volume II_. Central Conference of American Rabbis. ISBN 0-916694-38-0. 1978. [High Holiday Prayerbook] [GoU77] _Shaarei Bina: Gates of Understanding, Volume I: Weekdays, Sabbaths, and Festivals_. Central Conference of American Rabbis. ISBN 0-916694-43-7. 1977. [Notes and source material for GoP] _Shaarei Bina: Gates of Understanding, Volume II: For the Days of Awe_. Central Conference of American Rabbis. ISBN 0-916694-84-4. 1977. [Notes and source material for GoR] [APH74] _A Passover Haggadah_. Central Conference of American Rabbis. ISBN 0-916694-05-4. 1974. [Pesach Siddur] [UPB47] _Union Prayer Book I and II_. Central Conference of American Rabbis. 1947. [The previous prayerbook. I corresponds to GoP; II to GoR.] There are a number of other liturgical books available from CCAR press (ISBN in []): Gates of Healing (for those in the hospital) [0-88123-005-7], Gates of Awe (for very young children) [0-88123-014-6], Haneirot Halalu: These Lights are Holy (Chanuka) [0-88123-006-5], Gates of the House [0-916694-35-6], Seder Tu Bisheval (for Tu B'Shevat) [0-88123-008-1], Gates of Wonder (for very young children) [0-88123-009-X], Six Days of Destruction (Yom HaShoah) [0-8091-2999-X], Gates of Song [8074-0406-3], Gates of Forgiveness (Selichot) [0-916694-74-7]. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IV.4. REFORM RESPONSA [Baz77] Bazak, Jacob (compl, annot. and arranged by); Passamaneck, Stephen M. (trans., annot., and edited by). _Jewish Life and Jewish Law: Selected Rabbinical Responsa_. 8 vols. UAHC Press, New York Book 1: Lawyers, Judges and Legal Ethics (#390000) Books 2,3,4: Contracts, Real Estate, Sales, and Usury (#180211) Books 5,6: Credit, Law Enforcement, Taxation (#180212) Books 7,8: Criminal and Domestic Relations (#180213) [Fre44] Freehof, Solomon B. _Reform Jewish Practice and its Rabbinic Background_. Vols. I and II. UAHC, New York. [Fre60] Freehof, Solomon B., _Reform Responsa_. Hebrew Union College Press, Cincinnati, 1960. [Fre69] Freehof, Solomon B., _Current Reform Responsa_. Hebrew Union College Press, Cincinnati, 1969. [Fre74] Freehof, Solomon B., _Contemporary Reform Responsa_. Hebrew Union College Press, Cincinnati, 1960. [Fre77] Freehof, Solomon B., _Reform Responsa for our Time_. Hebrew Union College Press, Cincinnati, 1977. [Fre81] Freehof, Solomon B., _New Reform Responsa_. Hebrew Union College Press, Cincinnati, 1981. [Jac83] Jacob, Walter, _American Reform Responsa_. Central Conference of American Rabbis, ISBN 0-916694-83-6. 1983. [Jac87] Jacob, Walter, _Contemporary American Reform Responsa_. Central Conference of American Rabbis, ISBN 0-88123-003-0. 1987. [Lau51] Lauterbach, Jacob Z. _Rabbinic Essays_. Hebrew Union College Press, Cincinnati, 1951. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IV.5. REFORM HISTORY [Lev29] Levy, Felix. "Moses Mendelssohn's Ideas of Religion and Their Relation to Reform Judaism", in _Yearbook of the CCAR_, Vol 39. CCAR, New York. 1929. [Mey88] Meyer, Michael A. _Response to Modernity : A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism_. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 1988. [Pla65] Plaut, W. Gunther. _The Growth of Reform Judaism_. World Union for Progressive Judaism, 1965. [Pla63] Plaut, W. Gunther. _The Rise of Reform Judaism_. World Union for Progressive Judaism, 1963. [Sil74] Silver, Daniel J. and Bernard Martin. _A History of Judaism_. Basic Books. 1974. [Sol??] Soloff, Mordecai, _How the Jewish People Lives Today_. Union of American Hebrew Congregations. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IV.6. THE BIBLE [Pla74] Plaut, W. Gunther. _The Torah, A Modern Commentary_. UAHC. ISBN 0-8074-0165-X/UAHC-4. [Fre57] Freehof, Solomon B. _Preface To Scripture_. UAHC. 1957. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. End of Judaism Reading List Part IV (Reform) Digest ************************** Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/conservative Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Part V: Conservative Judaism [Last Change: $Date: 1993/07/08 18:08:36 $ $Revision: 2.2 $] [Last Post: Fri Aug 6 11:11:07 1993] This message is intended to provide readers of soc.culture.jewish with a list of references to allow them to learn more about the current practices, past practices, beliefs, and history of the Conservative Movement with Judaism. One of the four major movements within Judaism, the Conservative Movement was founded in 1886, with the establishment of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) by a group led by Rabbis Sabato Morais and Marcus Jastrow of Philadelphia and Henry Pereira Mendes of New York. This group was responding to what it felt were the rationalist, antihalakhic excesses of the Reform movement. For its first 15 years, the JTS was a colossal failure. However, around the turn of the century, the JTS was saved and grew into the flagship of a major Jewish denomination thanks to the efforts of three men: its first president, Cyrus Adler; financier Jacob Schiff; and the brilliant Rabbi Solomon Schecter. In the United States, Israel, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and other countries, there are two principal organizations involved with Conservative Judaism: 1) the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), the rabbinic school for Conservative Rabbis. The association of the rabbis is called the Rabbinical Assembly (RA). Information on the Conservative Rabbinical journal may be found in the periodicals part of the reading list (XI). 2) The USCJ, or United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (formerly the United Synagogue of America). Its members are Conservative Synagogues. This list is organized as a digest; it may be successfully undigestified by programs such as "gnus". ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and Credits This list is based on a reading list I developed from research at the University of Judaism in January of 1993. Contributions and/or corrections to this list have been made by David Grabiner, David A Guberman, Paul Wolf, and Art Kamlet. Suggestions for additions or deletions are welcome, as are *brief* annotations for the entries. All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on israel.nysernet.org [192.77.173.2] in the directory: ~ftp/israel/lists/scj-faq They are available in the rtfm.mit.edu archives in the directory: pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism The following files make up the reading lists and are in the "reading-lists" subdirectory: general, traditional, chasidism, reform, conservative, reconstructionist, humanistic, zionism, antisemitism, intermarriage, periodicals. The following files make up the FAQ and are in the "FAQ" subdirectory: 01-FAQ-intro, 02-Who-We-Are, 03-Torah-Halacha, 04-Observance, 05-Worship, 06-Jewish-Thought, 07-Jews-As-Nation, 08-Israel, 09-Antisemitism, 10-Miscellaneous. The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: V.1. CONSERVATIVE BELIEFS [SchS96] Schecter, Solomon. _Studies in Judaism: First Series_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA. 1896 [SchS08] Schecter, Solomon. _Studies in Judaism: Second Series_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA 1908. [SchS24] Schecter, Solomon. _Studies in Judaism: Third Series_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA 1924. [SchS61] Schecter, Solomon. _Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology_. Schocken Books, New York. 1961. Other works to look at include _Emet Ve-Emunah_ and books by Conservative authors such as Dorff, Gillman, Steinberg, and Wolpe, cited elsewhere in this list. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: V.2. CONSERVATIVE PRACTICES [Kle79] Klein, Isaac. _A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice_. Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. 1979. [Sie77] Siegel, Seymour ed. _Conservative Judaism and Jewish Law_. Rabbinical Assembly, New York. 1977. [RAA88] Rabbinical Assembly. _Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism_. The JTS, Rabbinical Assembly, and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. 1988. [Wol85] Wolfson, Ron. _The Art of Jewish Living: The Shabbat Seder_. The Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs, Inc., New York, NY. 1985 [Teacher's Guide, Songs & Blessings book, and Audiocassette are also available.] [Wol88] Wolfson, Ron. _The Art of Jewish Living: The Passover Seder_. The Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs, Inc., New York, NY 1988 [Teacher's Guide, Workbook, Poster, and Audiocassette are also available. Note: This is not a Haggaddah, but a text.] [Wol90] Wolfson, Ron. _The Art of Jewish Living: Hanukkah_. The Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs, Inc., New York, NY. 1990 [Audiocassette also available] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: V.3. CONSERVATIVE HISTORY [Ben48] Bentwich, Norman. _Solomon Schechter_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA. 1948. [Dav63] Davis, Moshe. _The Emergence of Conservative Judaism_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA. 1963. [Dor77] Dorff, Eliot M. _Conservative Judaism_. United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, New York. 1977. [Gil93] Gillman, Neil. _Conservative Judaism: The New Century_. Behrman House. 1993. [Kar64] Karp, Abraham J. _A History of the United Synagoges of America: 1913-1963_, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, New York. 1964. [Par64] Parzen, Herbert. _Architects of Conservative Judaism_ Jonathan David, New York. 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: V.4. CONSERVATIVE LITURGY [Gol78] Golinkin, Noah. Shalom Aleichem - Learn to read the Hebrew Prayerbook!, Hebrew Publishing Company, Brooklyn, NY 1978 [This book and a Teacher's Guide are available from the FJMC] [Gol81] Golinkin, Noah. Ayn Keloheynu - Learn to comprehend the Hebrew Prayerbook in a new way. Sheingold Publishers, New York, NY 1981 [This is a sequel to Shalom Aleichem, and also has a teacher's Guide, and is available from the FJMC.] [RAA75] Rabbinical Assembly. _Machzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur_. Rabbinical Assembly, New York. 1975. [RAA85] Rabbinical Assembly. _Siddur Sim Shalom_. Rabbinical Assembly and United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, New York. 1985. [RAA65] Harlow, Jules Ed. _Liqqutei Tefillah: The Rabbis Manual_. Rabbinical Assembly, New York. 1965. [RAA64] Rabbinical Assembly. _(Sabbath Prayers) Seder Tefilot Yisra'el LeShabbat Uleshalosh Regalim_. Rabbinical Assembly and United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. 1964. [RAA62] Rabbinical Assembly. _Weekday Prayer Book: Tefillot Liyemoth Hol_. Rabbinical Assembly, New York. 1962. [Rab82] Rabinowicz, Rachel (ed.). _Passover Haggadah: The Feast of Freedom_ Rabbinical Assembly. 1982 (2d ed.) [also used by many Orthodox and Reform Jews because of its combination of learning and accessibility with a useful lay-out] [???] _The Shabbat Morning Torah Service Video Tape_. The Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs, Inc. This VHS tape, with accompanying User's Guide, Glossary, and Torah Blessings Card is a great TEACHING tool for people unfamiliar with the procedures of the Torah Service, such as people asked to participate at a Bar/Bat Mitzvah. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. End of Judaism Reading List Part V (Conservative) Digest ************************** Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/reconstructionist Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Part VI: Reconstructionist Judaism [Last Change: $Date: 1993/07/08 18:08:45 $ $Revision: 2.2 $] [Last Post: Fri Aug 6 11:11:25 1993] This message is intended to provide readers of soc.culture.jewish with a list of references to allow them to learn more about the current practices, past practices, beliefs, and history of the Reconstructionist Judaism Movement. Reconstructionist Judaism is the small "fourth movement" of American Judaism. It was founded by the Conservative Rabbi and philosopher Mordecai Kaplan. It emphasizes "Judaism as a civilization" (i.e., the integration of selected Jewish beliefs with the Jewish people's culture and folkways). Reconstructionist Jews are willing to question conventional answers and keep open minds. They believe that a Jew need not and ought not sacrifice intellectual integrity for the sake of his/her Jewish identity. Reconstructionists are Jews who take the Jewish traditions seriously and live Jewish lives even through they don't believe in the divine supernatural origin of the Torah. Reconstructionists believe that, just a Jewish civilization has adapted to new circumstances throughout Jewish history, so must it adapt to late twentieth-century North American society. Reconstructionists tend to conduct more intimate worship services in which everyone is involved and the rabbi--if there is one--does not dominate. The membership body of the Reconstructionist Movement is the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. The congregations and havurot (Reconstructionist Judaism originated the Havurot concept) are organized into the Federation of Reconstructionist Congregation and Havurot. The association of the reconstructionist Rabbis is the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, located at Church Road and Greenwood Avenue in Wyncote PA 19095 publishes _Raayonot_ as its rabbinical journal. Information on where to obtain these books, including an explanation of the and notations, may be found in Part I of the Reading List (judaism/reading-lists/general). Publications of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, the Reconstructionist Press, etc. may be obtained from: Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot Church Road & Greenwood Ave. Wyncote, PA 19095-1898 (215) 887-1988 This list is organized as a digest; it may be successfully undigestified by programs such as "gnus". ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and Credits This list is based on research done at the University of Judaism in January 1993 by faigin@aero.org. Contributions were also made by Sharon Morrison (sharon@cs.uiuc.edu). Suggestions for additions or deletions are welcome, as are *brief* annotations for the entries. All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on israel.nysernet.org [192.77.173.2] in the directory: ~ftp/israel/lists/scj-faq They are available in the rtfm.mit.edu archives in the directory: pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism The following files make up the reading lists and are in the "reading-lists" subdirectory: general, traditional, chasidism, reform, conservative, reconstructionist, humanistic, zionism, antisemitism, intermarriage, periodicals. The following files make up the FAQ and are in the "FAQ" subdirectory: 01-FAQ-intro, 02-Who-We-Are, 03-Torah-Halacha, 04-Observance, 05-Worship, 06-Jewish-Thought, 07-Jews-As-Nation, 08-Israel, 09-Antisemitism, 10-Miscellaneous. The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VI.1. PHILOSOPHY OF MOVEMENT [Alp85] Alpert, Rebecca T. and Staub, Jacob J. _Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach_ Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1985. ISBN 0-935457-00-3. [Eis52] Eisenstein, Ira and Kohn, Eugene. _Mordecai M. Kaplan: An Evaluation_ Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, New York. 1952. [Kap34] Kaplan, Mordecai M. _Judaism as a Civilization_. Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1934. Also available from Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia PA. ISBN 0-8276-0194-8. [Kap36] Kaplan, Mordecai M., Ed. _The Jewish Reconstructionist Papers_. Behrman's Jewish Book House, New York. 1936. [Kap48] Kaplan, Mordecai M. _The Future of the American Jew_. Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1948. [Kap56] Kaplan, Moredecai M. _Questions Jews Ask: Reconstructionist Answers_. Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1956. [Kap60] Kaplan, Mordecai M. _The Greater Judaism in the Making_ Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1960. [Coh58] Cohen, Jack J. _The Case for Religious Naturalism_. Reconstructionist Press, New York. 1958. [Scu85] Scult, Mel and Goldsmith, Emanual. _Dynamic Judaism: The Essential Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan_. Reconstructionist Press & Schocken Books, New York. 1985. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VI.2. RECONSTRUCTIONIST EDUCATION [Sta85] Staug, Jacob and Schein, Jeffrey eds. _Creative Jewish Education: A Reconstructionist Perspective_. Rossel Books and Reconstructionist Rabbinic Council Press, New York. 1985. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VI.3. RECONSTRUCTIONIST LITURGY [FRC89] Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot. _Kol Haneshamah: Shabbat Eve_. Reconstructionist Press, Wyncote PA. 1989. [JRF41] Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. _The New Haggadah_. Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, New York. 1941. [Passover Liturgy] [JRF45] Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. _The Sabbath Prayer Book_. Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, New York. 1945. [This is been superceded, but gives an idea of the early approach] [JRF48] Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. _High Holiday Prayer Book_. Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, New York. 1948. [JRF58] Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. _Festival Prayer Book_. Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, New York. 1958 [Festival Liturgy] ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. End of Judaism Reading List Part VI (Reconstructionist) Digest ************************** Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/humanistic Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Part VII: Humanistic Judaism [Last Change: $Date: 1993/07/08 18:08:52 $ $Revision: 2.2 $] [Last Post: Fri Aug 6 11:11:34 1993] "Humanistic Jews need a literature that clearly and boldly states what they think and believe" [Win85] This message is intended to provide readers of soc.culture.jewish with a list of references to allow them to learn more about the current practices, past practices, beliefs, and history of the Humanistic Judaism Movement. Humanistic Judaism is less well known than Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform. But, on a behavioral level, it claims to represent many more American Jews than any of these official ideologies. Rabbi Sherwin Wine, the founder of the movement, identifies three kinds of Jews who are neither honestly Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. He calls these types the involuntary, the ethnic, and the humanistic. Rabbi Wine defines the involuntary Jew is the individual of Jewish descent who finds no meaning either in his past or in the unique practices of his ancestral religion. He defines the ethnic Jew is the person of Jewish descent who bears a strong attachment to the Hebrew and Yiddish cultures out of which he emerged. Rabbi Wine feels that these affiliations are negative. He prefers the positive definition of Humanistic Jew: The Humanistic Jew is an individual, of either Jewish or non-Jewish descent, who believes in the ultimate value of self-respect and in the principles of humanism, community, autonomy, and rationality. He also finds meaning in the celebration of life as expressed through the historic Jewish calendar and seeks to interpret this calendar in a naturalistic way. He perceives that the power he possesses to determine and control his own life is the result of two billion years of evolutionary history. Therefore, his religious feeling re-enforces his sense of human dignity. Humanistic Judaism was organized by Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, who founded its first congregation, the Birmingham Temple, in Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1969, Rabbi Wine helped to found the Society of Humanistic Judaism, whose membership comprises 19 congregations and chapters, plus over 1300 families and individual members, as of June 1993. The Society for Humanistic Judaism is the US affiliate of the International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews. The Federation's academic institution, the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, matriculated its first class of rabbinical candidates in September of 1992. An overview of the current status of Humanistic Judaism, written by Egon Friedler, of the Uruguayan Movement for Secular Humanistic Judaism, recently appeared in _Midstream_ (October 1992). Additional information on Humanistic Judaism, as well as publications on Humanistic Judaism, may be obtained from: Society for Humanistic Judaism 28611 W. Twelve Mile Road Farmington Hills MI 48018 +1 313 478-7610 This list is organized as a digest; it may be successfully undigestified by programs such as "gnus". ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and Credits This reading list is based on a reading list developed during research at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles in January 1993. Other contributors include Adam Reed and David A Guberman. Suggestions for additions or deletions are welcome, as are submissions of *brief* annotations of the entries. All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on israel.nysernet.org [192.77.173.2] in the directory: ~ftp/israel/lists/scj-faq They are available in the rtfm.mit.edu archives in the directory: pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism The following files make up the reading lists and are in the "reading-lists" subdirectory: general, traditional, chasidism, reform, conservative, reconstructionist, humanistic, zionism, antisemitism, intermarriage, periodicals. The following files make up the FAQ and are in the "FAQ" subdirectory: 01-FAQ-intro, 02-Who-We-Are, 03-Torah-Halacha, 04-Observance, 05-Worship, 06-Jewish-Thought, 07-Jews-As-Nation, 08-Israel, 09-Antisemitism, 10-Miscellaneous. The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VII.1. PHILOSOPHY OF MOVEMENT [Mem62] Memmi, Albert. _Portrait of a Jew_. Orion Press, 1962; Viking Press, New York NY. ISBN 670-00332-8. 1971 [Albert Memmi is chair of the Association pour Judaisme Laic et Humaniste in France] [Por81] Porter, Jack Nusan. _The Jew as Outsider_. University Press of America, Washington DC 1981. ISBN 0-8191-1639-4. [Win78] Wine, Sherwin T. _Humanistic Judaism_. Prometheus Books, Buffalo NY, 1978. ISBN 0-87975-102-9 [Win85] Wine, Sherwin T. _Judaism Beyond G@d: A Radical New Way to be Jewish_. Society for Humanistic Judaism, Farmington Hills MI. ISBN 0-912645-08-3. 1985. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VII.2. OTHER RELATED READING Humanistic Judaism, being such a young movement, does not yet have a large body of literature. However, there are a number of authors that are recommended reading by Rabbi Wine: o CLASSICS OF HUMANISM: Epicurus, Democritus, August Comte, John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Jean Paul Sartre, George Santayana. o WRITINGS OF JEWS WHO WERE HUMANISTS: Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm, Walter Kippman, and Walter Kaufman o LITERATURE OF SECULAR HISTORIANS: Spinoza, Julius Wellhausen, Emile Durkeim, Max Weber, Simon Dubnow, Salo Baron, and Theodore Gaster o WRITINGS OF JEWISH NATIONALISTS: I.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, Chaim Zhitlowsky, Ahad Haam, Micah Berdichevsky, Theodore Herzl, Max Nordau, A.D. Gordon, Ber Borochov, Saul Tchernikhovsky, Vladmir Jabotinsky, David Ben Gurion, and Haum Goldmann o JEWISH ESSAYISTS AND NOVELISTS WHO ARE ARDENT HUMANISTS: Saul Bellow, Albert Memmi, and George Steiner Other books on Humanism and Judaism include: [Eli88] Eliav, A.E. ("Lova"). _New Heart, New Spirit: Biblical Humanism for Modern Israel_. Jewish Publication Society. 1988. [Forward by Herman Wouk] ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. End of Judaism Reading List Part VII (Humanistic) Digest ************************** Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/zionism Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Part VIII: Zionism and the Birth of Israel [Last Change: $Date: 1993/09/05 18:08:07 $ $Revision: 2.3 $] [Last Post: Fri Aug 6 11:11:41 1993] This message is intended to provide readers of soc.culture.jewish with a list of references to allow them to learn more about the history of the state of Israel and what Zionism is. It does not cover current Israeli or middle-eastern politics. Discussions of politics are held in talk.politics.mideast. However, some of the entries on the list should provide useful background and insight into those discussions. Information on where to obtain these books, including an explanation of the and notations, may be found in Part I of the Reading List (judaism/reading-lists/general). This list is organized as a digest; it may be successfully undigestified by programs such as "gnus". ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and Credits This list is based primarily on sources obtained during a course on Zionism taught by Dr. Deborah Lipstadt at UCLA, as well as the "70 books about Israel 70" section in the _Third Jewish Catalog_. Other contributors include David A Guberman, Gary Kulwin and Oren Levine. Suggestions for additions or deletions are welcome, as are *brief* annotations for the entries. I'm particularly looking for information on the various zionistic movements. All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on israel.nysernet.org [192.77.173.2] in the directory: ~ftp/israel/lists/scj-faq They are available in the rtfm.mit.edu archives in the directory: pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism The following files make up the reading lists and are in the "reading-lists" subdirectory: general, traditional, chasidism, reform, conservative, reconstructionist, humanistic, zionism, antisemitism, intermarriage, periodicals. The following files make up the FAQ and are in the "FAQ" subdirectory: 01-FAQ-intro, 02-Who-We-Are, 03-Torah-Halacha, 04-Observance, 05-Worship, 06-Jewish-Thought, 07-Jews-As-Nation, 08-Israel, 09-Antisemitism, 10-Miscellaneous. The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VIII.1. ZIONISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISRAEL [Chu67] Churchill, Randolph S. & Winston S. _The Six Day War_. Penguin. 1967. [a classic contemporary account] [CohM87] Cohen, Mitchell. _Zion & State: Nation, Class and the Shaping of Modern Israel_. Blackwell. 1987. [the struggle between mainstream and Revisionist Zionism during the Mandatory and early statehood periods] [CohN75] Cohen, Naomi. _American Jews and the Zionist Idea_. Ktav. 1975 [Hal77] Halkin, Hillel. _Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist's Polemic_. JPS, Philadelphia PA. 1977 . [Halkin, an American oleh, addresses six fictional letters to his imaginary friend, explaining to him why he should make aliyah. Considered a classic among American olim in Israel (esp. the non-orthodox olim, since Halkin basically espouses a secular Zionist position).] [Hal76] Halpern, Ben. _The Idea of a Jewish State_. Harvard University Press, 1976 [Har88] Harkabi, Yehoshafat. _Israel's Fateful Hour_. Harper & Row. 1988. [the former director of IDF military intelligence, Hebrew University professor of international relations, and winner of the 1993 Israel Prize, explains Israel's need for peace and the feasibility of "land for peace"; based on the author's _Hachpaot Goraliot_] [Her17] Herzl, Theodore. _The Jewish State_. Federation of American Zionists, New York. 1917 [Her75] Herzog, Chaim. _The War of Atonement_. Steinmatzky. 1975. [by Israel's former president] [Her79] Hertzberg, Arthur. _The Zionist Idea_. Atheneum. 1979. [An outstanding 85 page introductory essay and anthology of writings by leading Zionists] [Jaf89a] Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies of Tel Aviv University. _The West Bank and Gaza: Israel's Options for Peace. Tel Aviv University. 1989. [essential background reading from a study group led by Aharon Yariv, a former director of IDF military intelligence; initially sponsored by the American Jewish Congress and co-sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith] [Jaf89b] Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies of Tel Aviv University. _The West Bank and Gaza: Toward A Solution_. Tel Aviv University. 1989. [a companion to Jaf89b; independent proposals by the Jaffee Center study group] [Laq72] Laqueur, Walter. _A History of Zionism_ Schocken Books, New York. 1972 [Man76] Mandel, Neville. _The Arabs and Zionism Before World War I_. University of California. 1976. [Rub84] Rubenstein, Amnon. _The Zionist Dream Revisited_. Schocken Books, New York. 1984. [Traces the cumulative tradition of Israeli intellectuals from its Herzlian and Second Aliayh roots to the present day and delves into the reasons for the right-wing reaction that has emerged since the Six-Day War. Very political.] [Sac77] Sachar, Howard Morley. _The Course of Modern Jewish History_. Delta. 1977. [Seg86] Segev, Tom. _1949: The First Israelis_. The Free Press, 1986. [A detailed history of the first year of Israel's existence, based on an extensive study of official documents and the press, showing how ideology met with the reality of building a state.] [Sim62] Simon, Leon. _Selected Essays of Ahad Ha-'Am_ Athenium, 1962. [Syk73] Sykes, Christopher. _Crossroads to Israel: 1917-1948_. Midland Books. 1973. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VIII.2. THE FOUNDERS [Beg51] Begin, Menachem. _The Revolt: Story of the Irgun_. Schuman, New York. 1951. [Ben54] Ben-Gurion, David. _Rebirth and Destiny of Israel_. Philosophical Library, New York. 1954. [Eba72] Eban, Abba. _My Country: The Story of Modern Israel_. Random House, New York. 1972. [Jab87] Jabotinsky, Z'ev. _The War and the Jew_. Altalena Press, New York. 1987. [Rab79] Rabin, Yitzhak. _The Rabin Memoirs_. Little, Brown. 1979. [Sch86] Schechtman, J. B. _The Life and Times of Jabotinsky_. Eshel Books, Silver Spring MD. 1986. (2 vols). [Tev87] Teveth, Shabtai. _Ben Gurion: The Burning Ground 1886-1948_. Houghton Mifflin. 1987. [1988 National Jewish Book Award winner] [Wei66] Weitzmann, Chaim. _Trial and Error_. JPS, Philadelphia. Schocken, New York. 1966. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VIII.3. ZIONISTIC MOVEMENTS [Luz88] Luz, Ehud. _Parallels Meet: Religion and Nationalism in the Early Zionist Movement, 1882-1904_. JPS: Philadelphia PA. 1988. ISBN 0-8276-0297-9. [Sha88] Shavit, Jacob _Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement, 1925-1948_. F. Cass, Totowa NJ. 1988. (I'm still looking for references in this area. I'd like to have some sources on the major movements (Hertzl's) as well as the other significant organizations, such as Z'ev Jabotinsky's.) ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VIII.4. JUDAISM IN ISRAEL [Abr76] Abramov, S. Zalman. _Perpetual Dilemma: Jewish Religion in the Jewish State_. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford NJ. 1976 ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. End of Judaism Reading List Part VIII (Zionism) Digest ************************** ------- -- [W]: The Aerospace Corp. M1/055 * POB 92957 * LA, CA 90009-2957 * 310/336-8228 [Email]:faigin@aero.org, faigin@acm.org [Vmail]:310/336-5454 Box#68228 "I have a spelling checker/It came with my PC/It plainly marks four my revue/ Mistakes I cannot sea/I've run this poem threw it/I'm sure your pleased too no/ ****************************************************************************** From Packet: CHANNEL1 Message # 43844 Area : 1446 answers From : Faigin@aero.org 09-05-93 13:08 To : All Subj : Judaism Reading List: Ant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ÿ@SUBJECT:Judaism Reading List: Antisemitism and Christian Relations ( ÿ@PACKOUT:09-05-93!Fr Message-ID: Newsgroup: soc.culture.jewish,news.answers,soc.answers Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/antisemitism Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Part IX: Antisemitism and Christian Relations [Last Change: $Date: 1993/09/05 18:08:10 $ $Revision: 2.4 $] [Last Post: Fri Aug 6 11:11:50 1993] This message is intended to provide readers of soc.culture.jewish with a list of references to allow them to learn more about the history and the reasons behind antisemitism. This collections of readings also address the holocaust. Note the distinction in the terms. "Anti-Semitism" refers to any semite -- Arab or Jew. "Antisemitism" refers to the specific targeting of Jews. Information on where to obtain these books, including an explanation of the and notations, may be found in Part I of the Reading List (judaism/reading-lists/general). This list is organized as a digest; it may be successfully undigestified by programs such as "gnus". ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and Credits This reading list is based on an original antisemitism list developed by Rob Levine as part of the general Judaism reading list. It has been augmented by material from my library that I obtained from a course on antisemitism that was once taught by Dr. Deborah Lipstadt at UCLA and from suggestions in _The Jewish Catalog_. Other contributers include David A Guberman, Shaul Wallach, Dan Yurman and Len Moskowitz. Suggestions for additions or deletions for this list are welcome, as are *brief* annotations for the various list entries. All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on israel.nysernet.org [192.77.173.2] in the directory: ~ftp/israel/lists/scj-faq They are available in the rtfm.mit.edu archives in the directory: pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism The following files make up the reading lists and are in the "reading-lists" subdirectory: general, traditional, chasidism, reform, conservative, reconstructionist, humanistic, zionism, antisemitism, intermarriage, periodicals. The following files make up the FAQ and are in the "FAQ" subdirectory: 01-FAQ-intro, 02-Who-We-Are, 03-Torah-Halacha, 04-Observance, 05-Worship, 06-Jewish-Thought, 07-Jews-As-Nation, 08-Israel, 09-Antisemitism, 10-Miscellaneous. The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IX.1. ANTISEMITISM [Are68] Arendt, Hannah. _Antisemitism_. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1968. [Are78] Arendt, Hannah. _Towards the Final Solution: A History of European Racism_. Harper/Colophon Books, 1978. [Are58] Arendt, Hannah. _Origins of Totalitarianism_ Meridian, New York. 1958. [Ber86] Berger, David (ed.) _History and Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism_. JPS: Philadelphia PA. 1986. ISBN 0-8276-0267-7. [Dun91] Dundes, Alan (ed.) _The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore_. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. 1991. [Lan90a] Langmuir, Gavin. _History, Religion, and Antisemitism_. University of California. 1990. ["the most erudite historian of antisemitism" -- Leon Poliakov] [Lan90b] Langmuir, Gavin. _Toward a Definition of Antisemitism_. University of California. 1990. ["the most erudite historian of antisemitism" -- Leon Poliakov; a collection of Langmuir's more important papers] [Pol75] Poliakov, Leon. _A History of Antisemitism_. Vanguard Press. 1975. [3 volumes; "a major work" -- Michael Berenbaum (director of the research component of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)] [Pra83] Prager, Dennis and Joseph Telushkin. _Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism_. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. [Reu74] Reuether, Rosemary. _Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Antisemitism_ Seabury Press. 1974. [Sam66] Samuel, Maurice. _Blood Accusation: The Strange History of the Beiliss Case_. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1966. [Ste76] Steinsaltz, Adin. "The Persecution and Banning of the Talmud." Part one, chapter eleven of _The Essential Talmud_. Trans. Chaya Galai. New York: Basic Books, 1976. [Str09] Strackz, Hermann L. _The Jew and Human Sacrifice_. Block Publishing Co., New York. 1909. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IX.2. WHAT LED TO THE HOLOCAUST [Ber93] Berenbaum, Michael. _The World Must Know_. Little, Brown. 1993. [the history of the Shoah (Holocaust) as told in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum by the head of its research component] [Daw75] Dawidowicz, Lucy S. _The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945_. JPS, Philadelphia. 1975. [Fei70] Feingold, Henry. _The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust_. Rutgers Press. 1970. [Fla65] Flannery, Edward. _The Anguish of the Jews_. Macmillan, New York. 1965. [Gil85] Gilbert, Martin. _The Holocaust_. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1985. [narrative history based on the words of those who were there] [Hil85] Hilberg, Raul. _The Destruction of the European Jews: Revised and Definitive Edition. Holmes and Meier. 1985. [3 volumes; "magisterial"; "unequaled insight into how the Holocaust was perpetrated" -- Michael Berenbaum (director of the research component of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)] [Kah91] Kahil, Leni. _The Holocaust_. Oxford. 1991. ["comprehensive and insightful" -- Michael Berenbaum (director of the research component of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)] [Kat78] Katz, Jacob. _Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation_. Schocken Press, New York. 1978. [Mos80] Mosse, George. _Toward The Final Solution: A History of European Racism_. Colophon Books. 1980. [Par74] Parkes, James. _The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue: A Study in the Origins of Antisemitism_. Hermon Press, New York. 1974 [Reprint of the 1934 Edition by Soncino Press, London] There is also an excellent bibliography of Holocaust resources in _The Third Jewish Catalog_ ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IX.3. MEDIEVAL OPPRESSION [Abr96] Abrahams, Israel. _Jewish Life in the Middle Ages_. JPS, Philadelphia. [Bae61] Baer, Yitzchak F. _History of the Jews in Christian Spain_. 2 vols. JPS, Philadelphia. 1961. ISBN 0-8276-0115-8, 0-8276-0338-X. [Mar79] Marcus, Jacob R. _The Jew In The Medieval World: A Source Book 315-1791_ Atheneum, New York. 1979. [Rot34] Roth, Cecil. _Ritual Murder Libel and the Jew: The Report by Cardinal Lorenzo Ganganelli (Pope Clement XIV)_ Woburn Press, London. 1934. [Tra83] Trachtenberg, Joshua. _The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism_. JPS: Philadelphia, PA. 1983. ISBN 0-8276-0227-8. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IX.4. ANTISEMITISM TODAY (INCLUDING DEALING WITH HATE GROUPS) [Aho90] Aho, James A. _The Politics of Righteousness - Idaho Christian Patriotism_. Univ. of Washington Press. 1990. ISBN 0-295-96997-0. [The author is a professor in the Sociology Dept. at the Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID. Topics covered include: 1. White supremacy movements - Idaho, 2. Arayan Nation, 3. Antisemitism - Idaho, 4. Christianity and politics. Includes an extensive bibliography, index, and notes. This a scholarly but readable work which is essential for anyone concerned with the history and dynamics of antisemitism in the Pacific Northwest.] [Lip93] Lipstadt, Deborah. _Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory_. Free Press. 1993. [Presents arguments to counter the beliefs of the "Holocaust Denyers"] ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IX.5. JUDIASM AND CHRISTIANITY [Moo32] Moore, George Foote. _Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era_. Harvard. 1932. [a classic scholarly work (3 vols.)] [Bae58b] Baeck, Leo. _Judaism and Christianity_. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia. 1958. [Ber78] Berger, David and Michael Wyschogrod. _Jews and "Jewish Christianity"_. New York: Ktav, 1978. [This book explains how Judaism views Christianity and why it cannot agree with some fundamental Christian beliefs.] [Fis84] Fisch, Dov Aharoni. _Jews for Nothing: On Cults, Intermarriage, and Assimilation_. Feldheim, New York NY. 1984. [Kap76] Kaplan, Aryeh. _The Real Messiah: A Traditional Jewish View of Christianity_. National Conference of Synagogue Youth of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. 1976. [Lev80] Levine, Samuel. _You Take Jesus, I'll Take G@d_: How To Refute Christian Missionaries_. Hamoroh Press (P.O. Box 48862, Los Angeles, CA 90048). 1980. ISBN: 0-9604754-1-9. [Nac63] Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman. _Vikuach Haramban_ Found in _Otzar Havikuchim_ by J.D. Eisenstein, Hebrew Publishing Society, 1915 and _Kithvey Haramban_ by Rabbi Charles D. Chavel, Mosad Horav Kook, 1963. [The RaMBaN engaged a formerly Jewish convert to Christianity in a disputation in 1263. The arguments haven't changed since. Also, see a video of 'The Disputation' which premiered on A&E.] [She83] Sherman, Shlomoh. _Escape From Jesus, One Man's Search For a Meaningful Judaism_. Decalogue Books: Mount Vernon, NY. 1983/1986. ISBN: 0-915474-03-4. [The true story of an assimilated Jew's conversion to Messianic Christianity, the reasons he became disenchanted with it, and his subsequent turn to traditional Judaism.] [Sie81] Sigal, Gerald. _The Jew and the Christian Missionary: A Jewish Response to Missionary Christianity_. Ktav Publishing House, 1981. [UAHC??] Union of American Hebrew Congregations. _The Target Is You_. UAHC TV and Film Institute. [30 min. VHS Video. Recommended for students in grades 7-9. Includes a review of the differences between Christianity and Judaism; a look behind-the-scenes at Hebrew-Christian congregations; interviews with Jews who were once members of these groups: they explain who they were missionized, what strategies the missionaries used, and why they returned to Judaism; and a discussion of how to combat missionary tactics. Non-Orthodox.] ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. End of Judaism Reading List Part XI (Antisemitism) Digest ************************** ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: XI.2. PUBLICATIONS TARGETED FOR SPECIFIC MOVEMENTS/ORGANIZATIONS Hadassah Magazine (Hadassah) FOCUS: News of Hadassah projects, Israel and Jewish interest FREQUENCY: 10 issues a year SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Free to members of Hadassah SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Hadassah Magazine/50 W. 58th Street New York NY 10022 PUBLISHER: Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc. COMMENTS: * Readership over 280,000 Humanistic Judaism (Society for Humanistic Judaism) FOCUS: Discussions in the Humanistic Judaism mode, that is, where individuals to shape their own lives independent of supernatural authority, yet who still value their jewish identity. FREQUENCY: Quarterly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (USA) $18/1yr SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Society for Humanistic Judaism 28611 West Twelve Mile Road/Farmington Hills MI 48334 PUBLISHER: Society for Humanistic Judaism COMMENTS: Jewish Action (Orthodox Union) FOCUS: Articles on Jewish living and contemporary issues. FREQUENCY: Quarterly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (USA) $18.00/1yr (Canada) $25.00/1yr (Elsewhere) $35.00/1yr SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Orthodox Union/333 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10001-5072 PUBLISHER: Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America COMMENTS: * Comes with the individual basic $54 membership to the OU along with the Pocket Calendar Diary and Passover Kosher Directory Reconstructionist (Reconstructionist) FOCUS: Medium for the continuing development of Reconstructionist ideas, practices, and institutions. FREQUENCY: Quarterply SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (USA) $20/1yr (Elsewhere) $25/1yr Free for members of Jewish Reconstuctionist Foundation SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Reocnstructionist/Church Road and Greenwood Ave Wyncote PA 19095 PUBLISHER: Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havarot COMMENTS: Reform Judaism (Reform) FOCUS: Issues of general concern to Reform Jews FREQUENCY: Quarterly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (USA) $10/1yr ($5/1yr Student) Free to members of UAHC Member Synagogues SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Reform Judaism/838 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10021 PUBLISHER: Union of American Hebrew Congregations 838 Fifth Avenue/New York NY 10021 COMMENTS: Tradition (Orthodox) FOCUS: Orthodox Rabbinate FREQUENCY: Quarterly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $20/1yr SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Tradition/275 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10001 PUBLISHER: Rabbinical Council of America COMMENTS: * Column by Rabbi Bleich on contemporary Halachic issues * Another column reviews articles in non-Orthodox periodicals United Synagogue Review (Conservative) FOCUS: USCJ organizational news and general Jewish topics FREQUENCY: Quarterly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (USA) $3/1yr $8/3yr Free to members of United Synagogue congregations SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Rappaport House/155 Fifth Avenue/New York NY 10010 PUBLISHER: United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism/Rapaport House 155 Fifth Avenue/New York NY 10010 COMMENTS: * Editor: Lois Goldrich Wellsprings (Chabad Lubavitch) FOCUS: ?? FREQUENCY: Quarterly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ?? SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Wellsprings/770 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn NY 11213/(718) 953 1000 PUBLISHER: ?? COMMENTS: Woman's League Outlook (Conservative) FOCUS: Women's, family and Jewish issues FREQUENCY: Quarterly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (USA) $8/1yr Free to Sisterhood members at Conservative Synagoges SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Woman's League Outline/48 E. 74th St New York, NY 10021 PUBLISHER: Women's League for Conservative Judaism COMMENTS: Women's World (B'nai Brith Women) FOCUS: ?? FREQUENCY: Quarterly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ?? SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: B'nai Brith Women Membership Department/ 1828 L St. NW #250/Washington DC 20036 PUBLISHER: B'nai Brith Women COMMENTS: * Regularly has articles on intermarriage ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: XI.3. RABBINIC JOURNALS CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly (Reform) FOCUS: Reform Rabbinical Journal FREQUENCY: Quarterly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (USA) $18/1yr $32/2yr $45/3yr $12/student SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: CCAR Journal/192 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10016 PUBLISHER: Central Conference of American Rabbis 192 Lexington Avenue/New York NY 10016 COMMENTS: Conservative Judaism (Conservative) FOCUS: ?? FREQUENCY: ?? SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (USA) $20/yr $15/students SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: ?? PUBLISHER: Jewish Theological Seminary/3080 Broadway New York NY 10027. COMMENTS: Raayonot (Reconstructionist) FOCUS: ?? FREQUENCY: ?? SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ?? SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: ?? PUBLISHER: Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot Church Road & Greenwood Ave./Wyncote, PA 19095-1898 (215) 887-1988 COMMENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: XI.4. LOCAL PUBLICATIONS Note: This section does not contain *all* local publications. However, large-circulation publications that address the overall community in areas with major Jewish activity (for example, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, etc.) will be listed. These publications provide a way to keep in touch with the Jewish community in another city. Baltimore Jewish Times (Baltimore MD) FOCUS: The Baltimore (Maryland) Jewish Community FREQUENCY: Weekly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Maryland) $33.60/1 yr (Other US) $42.00/1 yr SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Jewish Times / P. O. Box 2267 / Southfield MI 48037-2267 / 800-875-6621 PUBLISHER: The Baltimore Jewish Times COMMENTS: The Jewish Advocate (Boston MA) FOCUS: Jewish News in Boston, MA FREQUENCY: Weekly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (USA: New England) $25/1yr $46/2yr (USA: Elsewhere) $29/1yr $58/2yr (Non-USA) $40/1yr SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: 15 School Street/Boston, MA 02108 (617) 367-9100 PUBLISHER: The Jewish Advocate COMMENTS: Jewish Bulletin of Northern California FOCUS: Jewish Activities in the San Francisco Bay area FREQUENCY: Weekly except for 1st weeks of July and December SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (US) $38.00/1yr SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Jewish Bulletin of Northern California/ 88 First Street, Suite 300/San Francisco CA 94105-2506 PUBLISHER: San Francisco Jewish Community Publications, Inc. (A Non-Profit Corporation) Mark S. Klein, Editor and Publisher COMMENTS: The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles CA) FOCUS: News of interest to the Los Angeles CA Jewish Community FREQUENCY: Weekly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (California) $23.50/1yr (US, not CA) $36.00/1yr (Elsewhere) $83.50/1yr SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: Jewish Journal/3660 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles CA 90010 PUBLISHER: Ed Brennglass/Los Angeles Jewish Publications Inc. (A Community Non-Profit Corporation) 3660 Wilshire Blvd/Los Angeles CA 90010/(213) 738-7778 COMMENTS: * Includes "Dry Bones" * Includes regular columns by Marlene Adler Marks, Yehuda Lev, and David Margolis World Jewish News (Midwest U.S.A.) FOCUS: Jewish News of the Midwestern USA FREQUENCY: Weekly SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (USA) $25/1yr SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: World Jewish News/Rt 50 Box 4021 Fairview Heights IL 62208 PUBLISHER: ?? COMMENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. Contributions should have the following format: (replace what is in with your information). FOCUS: FREQUENCY: SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS: PUBLISHER: COMMENTS: End of Judaism Reading List Part XI (Periodicals) Digest **************************