Bibliography

We will provide all reading and study materials from the following texts. You may want to buy some of these for your own personal Jewish library:

 

  • A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice, by Rabbi Isaac Klein. Conservative Jewish practice.
  • A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People: From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present.. Barnavi, Eli, ed. 1992. New York: Schocken Books
  • Artscroll Siddur (Orthodox prayer book).
  • Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts, edited by Barry W. Holtz, Simon & Schuster, 1986.
  • Book of Jewish Belief – by Louis Jacobs
  • Cultures of the Jews: A New History. Biale, David , ed. New York: Schocken Books.
  • Entering Jewish Prayer: A Guide to Personal Devotion and the Worship Service – by Reuven Hammer
  • Introduction to Judaism: A Sourcebook. New York: UAHC Press. Einstein, Stephen J, and Lydia Kukoff, eds. 1999.
  • Jewish Literacy, by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. Morrow
  • Jewish Living, by Mark Washofsky. Contemporary Reform Practice. URJ Press.
  • Judaism: Revelation and Traditions. Fishbane, Michael. 1988. San Francisco: HarperCollins.
  • Kol Haneshama: Shabbat v’Hagim (Reconstructionist prayer book)
  • Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs and Values for Today’s Families – by Anita Diamant, Howard Cooper
  • Mishkan Tefilah (Reform prayer book).
  • My Prayer: Volume 2, Shabbat Prayers. By Nissan Mindel
  • Permission to Believe: Four Rational Approaches to G-d’s Existence. Lawrence Kelemen. Targum/Feldheim
  • Reishit Binah – Hebrew Crash Course. National Jewish Outreach Program.
  • Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew. Gillman, Neil. 1990. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society
  • Shalom Aleichem – Learn to Read the Hebrew Prayer Book – by Noah Golinkin The Jewish Holidays – by Michael Strassfeld
  • Siddur Sim Shalom (Conservative prayer book).
  • Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1st Special edition, 1985.
  • The Jewish Cultural Tapestry: International Jewish Folk Traditions, by Steven M. Lowenstein, Oxford University Press, 2002
  • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays, by Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Simon & Schuster
  • The Life of Judaism, edited by Harvey E. Goldberg, University of California Press, 2001
  • The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: : From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between. Butnick, Liebovitz, Oppenheimer.
  • The Sabbath, by Abraham Joshua Heschel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.
  • The Siddur Companion. Rabbi Paul H. Vishny. Devora Publishing, New York.
  • To Be a Jew, by Rabbi Hayyim Halevy Donin.
  • To Pray as a Jew, by Rabbi Hayyim Halevy Donin.