Book Description
This is thestory of Martin Chernoff, a pioneer in Messianic Judaism.
Author : Yohanna Chernoff
Publisher : E B E D Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781884369391
This is thestory of Martin Chernoff, a pioneer in Messianic Judaism.
Author : Jacques Chessex
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904738516
The murder of a Jewish merchant in Switzerland during WWII told in a haunting novel.
Author : Jimi Miller
Publisher :
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 1996-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781980931843
Born into an Orthodox Jewish family, Martin Chernoff was destined to be a man of vision. His three important visions, the first in 1948, the second in 1963, and the third in 1970, encouraged him to become one of the key pioneers in establishing the modern-day movement of Messianic Judaism - the end-time revival of God's Chosen People.The journey would take him from Toronto, to the Carolinas, to Atlanta, to Knoxville, to Cincinnati, to Philadelphia and would be fraught with many personal trials and much opposition from those who could not understand what this man was doing or where his steps would eventually lead him. Rabbi Chernoff hardly understood himself where he was headed. He only knew that he was being directed by the hand of the Almighty God.Here is the thrilling story, step by step, from the pen of his widow Yohanna.
Author : Shlomo Sand
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781686149
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what “Jewish” means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.
Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300164106
"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
Author : Susan Jacoby
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101971339
Since childhood, Susan Jacoby, the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason, was sure that her father was keeping a secret. At age twenty, just before beginning her writing career as a reporter for the Washington Post, she learned the truth: Robert Jacoby, a Catholic convert with a Catholic wife, was also a Jew. In Half-Jew, Jacoby grapples with the hidden identity cloaked by the persona of a successful accountant and member of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in East Lansing, Michigan—and with the secrets and lies that had marked her family’s history for three generations on two continents. Beginning in 1849 when her great-grandfather arrived in America as a political refugee, Jacoby traces her lineage through the lives of her great-uncle Harold, the distinguished astronomer whose map of the constellations is etched on the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal; her uncle, the bridge champion Oswald Jacoby, her aunt Edith, also a Catholic convert and eventually a reformer within the church; and, of course her father himself. At the core of story is the psychic damage that accrues across generations when people conceal their true ethnic and religious origins. Featuring a new afterword, Half-Jew is a meticulously researched, emotionally poignant examination of the dark legacy of European and American anti-Semitism as well as a tender-hearted account of a daughter coming to understand her father, herself, and her family’s true legacy.
Author : Julius Lester
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1611455456
Julius Lester was born the son of a black Methodist minister in the south. His book Lovesong is a beautifully written account of his spiritual journey away from the conventions of his Southern heritage and Methodist upbringing, culminating in his personal self-discovery through a conversion to Judaism. Growing up in the turbulent civil rights era South, Lester was often discouraged by the disconnectedness between the promises of religion and the realities of his life. He used the outlets available to him to try to come to grips with this split and somehow reconcile the injustices he was witnessing with the purity of religion. He became a controversial writer and commentator, siding with neither blacks nor whites in his unconventional viewpoints. He became a luminal figure of the times, outside of the conventional labels of race, religion, politics, or philosophy. Lester’s spiritual quest would take him through the existential landscape of his Southern, Christian upbringing, into his ancestry, winding through some of the holiest places on the planet and into the spiritual depths of the world’s major religious cultures. His odyssey of faith would unexpectedly lead him to discovering Judaism as his true spiritual calling.
Author : Joseph Telushkin
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0805242899
Part of the Jewish Encounter series “What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor. That is the whole Torah, all the rest is commentary. Now, go and study.” This is the most famous teaching of Hillel, one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era. What makes it so extraordinary is that it was offered to a gentile seeking conversion. Joseph Telushkin feels that this Talmudic story has great relevance for us today. At a time when religiosity is equated with ritual observance alone, when few Jews seem concerned with bringing Jewish teachings into the world, and when more than 40 percent of Jews intermarry, Judaism is in need of more of the openness that Hillel possessed two thousand years ago. Hillel’s teachings, stories, and legal rulings can be found throughout the Talmud; many of them share his emphasis on ethical and moral living as an essential element in Jewish religious practice, including his citing the concept of tikkun olam (repairing the world) as a basis for modifying Jewish law. Perhaps the most prominent rabbi and teacher in the Land of Israel during the reign of Herod, Hillel may well have influenced Jesus, his junior by several decades. In a provocative analysis of both Judaism and Christianity, Telushkin reveals why Hillel’s teachings about ethics as God’s central demand and his willingness to encourage the process of conversion began to be ignored in favor of the stricter and less inclusive teachings of his rabbinic adversary, Shammai. Here is a bold new look at an iconic religious leader.
Author : Ari L. Goldman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1416536027
What does it mean to be Jewish in the 21st century? Goldman offers eloquent, thoughtful answers to this and other questions through an absorbing exploration of modern Judaism.
Author : Keith Kahn-Harris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781910170878