Library of Jewish Studies – serie

Get to know the key works of the influential twelfth-century Jewish philosopher all in a single volume.The first-ever one-volume, English collection of Maimonides' basic writings. Includes major selections from the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides' great code of law, The Guide of the Perplexed, one of the most influential philosophical works of any time, along with essays, treatises, commentaries, and correspondence.A lively and comprehensive introduction to a central figure in the history of Western and Jewish thought, this book will provide a deeper understanding of Maimonides with translations of the original text.

A panorama of Hebrew prose presented in an English translation that makes these masterly works available to a wide audience.

An unflinching insight into the lives of those who experienced the Holocaust.As the Nazis rose to power, all over Europe, Jews conspired against their persecutors to keep an historical and documentary record. Some records were buried underground; others were hidden in secure and protected places; still others were transmitted to trustworthy non-Jews.Collected here, in this invaluable work of scholarship, are more than sixty fully-annotated, primary source documents. Selected from both private papers, including hidden archives, and official records, these documents chart the course of the Holocaust and support the author's monumental War Against the Jews: 1933-1945.All the documents, but one, are contemporary with the events they describe; most appear in English for the first time translated from German, Yiddish, Polish, French, and Hebrew; all are collected and authenticated by Dawidowicz.Together, this combination of petitions, speeches, legislation and decrees, field reports and secret orders, personal diaries, songs from the ghettoes, and Jewish records of the Holocaust fills out and illustrates the historical narrative of the Holocaust with immediacy and power.

The political status of Jews in medieval society as revealed in both source and contemporary documents.

Primary source readings on every aspect of hasidic belief and doctrine. Topics include: God Man and Israel; the tzaddik and the community; and ethics.