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Free Download Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman, "Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews: A Contemporary Jewish Theology "
English | ISBN: 1618118382 | 2019 | 202 pages | PDF | 2 MB
That the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, "the God of the Jews," is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts of that God, by contemporary standards, as well as by the classic problem of evil. In this book, Jerome Gellman aims to alleviate the first challenge, the so-called ideological critique, for the traditional believer by recommending replacing the God of the Jews with a different God, a "Jewish God," one in whom many traditional Jews have come to believe. And the problem of evil is lightened for the traditional believer, mainly by a possible theodicy explaining much evil. The book is at once analytic in style and Hasidic in broad orientation.

Free Download Alysa Levene, "Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Charity, Community and Religion, 1830-1880"
English | ISBN: 1350102180 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 20 MB
This book examines Jewish communities in Britain in an era of immense social, economic and religious change: from the acceleration of industrialisation to the end of the first phase of large-scale Jewish immigration from Europe.

Free Download Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, "Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe "
English | ISBN: 081434559X | 2020 | 476 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe is a topic laced by prejudice on one hand and apologetics on the other. Beginning in the Middle Ages, Jews were often portrayed as criminals driven by greed. While these accusations were, for the most part, unfounded, in other cases criminal accusations against Jews were not altogether baseless. Drawing on a variety of legal, liturgical, literary, and archival sources, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner examines the reasons for the involvement in crime, the social profile of Jews who performed crimes, and the ways and mechanisms employed by the legal and communal body to deal with Jewish criminals and with crimes committed by Jews. A society’s attitude toward individuals identified as criminals―by others or themselves―can serve as a window into that society’s mores and provide insight into how transgressors understood themselves and society’s attitudes toward them.

Free Download Sara Bender, "In Enemy Land: The Jews of Kielce and the Region, 1939-1946 "
English | ISBN: 1618118714 | 2019 | 356 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This book offers a study of the Jewish community in Kielce and its environs during World War II and the Holocaust. It is the first of its kind in providing a comprehensive account of Kielce’s Jews and their history as victims under the German occupation. The book focuses in particular on Jewish-Polish relations in the Kielce region; the deportation of the Jews of Kielce and its surrounding areas to the Treblinka death camp; the difficulties faced by those attempting to help and save them; and daily life in the Small Ghetto from September 1942 until late May 1943.

Free Download Jonathan Sacks, "Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century"
English | 2009 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0805212299, 0805242694 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
We are in danger, says Rabbi Sacks, of forgetting what Judaism’s place is within the global project of humankind. The Jewish people exist for a reason, and it is not for themselves alone. They must recommit themselves to their foundational purpose: to the task of creating a just world in which the divine presence can dwell among us all. Without compromising one iota of Jewish faith, Rabbi Sacks declares, Jews must stand alongside their friends-Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, and secular humanist-in defense of freedom against those who desecrate life. And they should do this not to win friends or the admiration of others but because it is what a people of God is supposed to do. Rabbi Sacks’s powerful message of tikkum olam-using Judaism as a blueprint for repairing an imperfect world-will resonate with people of all faiths.

Free Download Dr. Nadège Ragaru, "Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust: On the Origins of a Heroic Narrative "
English | ISBN: 164825070X | 2023 | 406 pages | PDF | 39 MB
A profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust.

Free Download History of the Jews: An Enthralling Guide from Ancient Times to the Present (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKTR2FJG | 2023 | 3 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Billy Wellman, Enthralling History
Narrator: Jay Herbert
How could the Jews comprise less than one percent of the world’s population, yet make up 22 percent of Nobel laureates? Despite passing through innumerable challenges, the Jews have produced stunningly gifted people in the sciences, humanities, and economics. Through the millennia and around the world, Jewish history is an astounding story of survival against all odds, yet a touching narrative of faith, covenant, and tradition. This concise yet sweeping history of the Jewish people introduces Judaism, the Torah, and Biblical history, followed by an engaging journey of the Jews through the Greek, Roman, and Muslim empires. It travels through waves of persecution, beginning with the Crusades and coming to a violent head under the Nazi regime. This audiobook dives into the new State of Israel, its struggles to survive, and how it has thrived in recent years. It unpacks the riveting and sometimes tragic stories of Jews who left their mark on history and a people who continue to play an illustrious role on the world stage.

Free Download Thomas A. Kolsky, "Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942-1948"
English | 1990 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 0877226946, 1566390095 | PDF | 48,3 mb
This is the first full-scale history of the only organized American Jewish opposition to Zionism during the 1940s. Despite extensive literature on the Zionist movement, the Jewish opposition to Zionism has received only marginal and usually negative attention. In this impartial study, Thomas A. Kolsky examines the neglected phenomenon of Jewish anti-Zionism, its roots, and its results.

Free Download Jonathan Adams, Cordelia Heß, "Revealing the Secrets of the Jews: Johannes Pfefferkorn and Christian Writings about Jewish Life and Literature in Early Modern Europe"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 3110522543 | PDF | pages: 336 | 5.5 mb
This book presents the most recent scholarship on the sixteenth-century convert Johannes Pfefferkorn and his context. Pfefferkorn is the most (in)famous of the converts from Judaism who wrote descriptions of Jewish ceremonial life and shaped both Christian ideas about Judaism and the course of anti-Jewish polemics in the early modern period.

Free Download Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland (Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire) By Louis A. Fishman
2019 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1474453996 | PDF | 8 MB
Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era set the stage for the on-going Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It presents an innovative analysis of the struggle in its first years, when Palestine was still an integral part of the Ottoman Empire. And it argues that in the late Ottoman era, Jews and Palestinians were already locked in conflict: the new freedoms introduced by the Young Turk Constitutional Revolution exacerbated divisions (rather than serving as a unifying factor). Offering an integrative approach, it considers both communities, together and separately, in order to provide a more sophisticated narrative of how the conflict unfolded in its first years.