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Maimonides for Today
The Guide to the Perplexed:A New Translationby moses maimonides, translated and with commentary by lenn e. goodman and phillip i. liebermanstanford university, 704 pages, $50 From Moses to Moses, there...
Spinoza in Full
Spinoza, Life and Legacyby jonathan i. israeloxford university, 1,344 pages, $49.99 Cursed be he by day and cursed be he by night; cursed be he when he lies down and...
Paul Johnson, Philo-Semite
Anti-Semitism, it has often been observed, is remarkably adaptable. Across countless centuries, anti-Semites have targeted Jews because of their wealth and their poverty, their power and their frailty, their...
The Rage of Meir Kahane
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radicalby shaul magidprinceton, 296 pages, $35 Meir Kahane: No other name elicits such visceral and varied reactions among...
A Naive Heretic
Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobsby harry freedmanbloomsbury continuum, 304 pages, $35 The Talmud relates the tragic story of an ancient Jewish sage named Elisha ben...
The Judaism of George Steiner
George Steiner, who died earlier this year, was one of the most influential Jewish intellectuals of the last half-century. He produced a foundational text in the philosophy of translation,...
