A Scotsdane View

GENERAL JUDAISM & JEWISH LIFE

"Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals" — George Robinson

"Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law" — Chaim Salman

"How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household" — Blu Greenberg

"Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History" — Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

"Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide" — Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

"Judaism and Homo­sex­u­al­i­ty: An Authen­tic Ortho­dox View" — Chaim Rapoport

"Jewish Views of the Afterlife" — Simcha Raphael

"Living a Jewish Life" — Anita Diamant

"Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics" — Rabbi Elliot Dorff

"Not in Heaven: The Nature and Function of Jewish Law" — Eliezer Berkovits

"Shabbos: Tasting Eternity" — Rabbi Daniel Travis

"The Book of Our Heritage: The Jewish Year and its Days of Significance" — Eliyahu Kitov

"The Encyclopedia of Jewish Concepts" — Philip Birnbaum

"The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols" — Ellen Frankel & Betsy Platkin Teutsch

"The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning" — Rabbi Maurice Lamm

"The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage" — Rabbi Maurice Lamm

"The Laws of B’rachos" — Binyamin Forst

"The Woman in Jewish Law and Tradition" — Michael Kaufman

"Tzitzith: A Thread of Light" — Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

"To Be A Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life" — Rabbi Hayim Donin

"To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayerbook and the Synagogue Service" — Rabbi Hayim Donin

"Waters of Eden: The Mystery of the Mikveh" — Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

FOLKLORE & MYSTICISM

"Above The Zodiac: Astrology in Jewish Thought" — Matityahu Glazerson

"A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe" — Marek Tuszewicki

"A Gathering of Angels: Angels in Jewish Life and Literature" — Morris Margolies

"Amulets and Magic Bowls: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity" — Joseph Naveh & Shaul Shaked

"A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz" — David Shyovitz

"Ascending Jacob's Ladder: Jewish Views of Angels, Demons, and Evil Spirits" — Rabbi Ronald Isaacs

"Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism: Pillars, Lines, Ladders" — Moshe Idel

"Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews" — Adam Siegel & Deatra Cohen

"A Time to be Born: Customs and Folklore of Jewish Birth" — Michele Klein

"A Treasury of Jewish Folklore" — Nathan Ausubel

"Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism" — J. H. Chajes

"Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" — Sara Ronis

"Divination, Magic, and Healing: The Book of Jewish Folklore" — Rabbi Ronald Isaacs

"Dreams of Being Eaten Alive: The Literary Core of the Kabbalah" — David Rosenberg

"Elijah’s Violin & Other Jewish Fairy Tales" — Howard Schwartz

"Gabriel’s Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales" — Howard Schwartz

"G-d Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism" — David Cooper

"Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid" — Moshe Idel

"Invisible Kingdoms: Jewish Tales of Angels, Spirits and Demons" — Howard Schwartz

"Jewish Astrology, A Cosmic Science: Torah, Talmud and Zohar Works on Spiritual Astrology" — Yaakov Kronenberg

"Jewish Love Magic: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages" — Ortal-Paz Saar

"Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion" — Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg

"Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah" — Yuval Harari

"Kabbalah" — Gershom Scholem

"Leaves from the Garden of Eden" — Howard Schwartz

"Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural" — Howard Schwartz

"Magic of the Ordinary" — Rabbi Gershon Winkler

"Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism: The Supernatural in Jewish Thought" — Gedalyah Nigal

"Magic Spells and Formulae: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity" — Joseph Naveh & Shaul Shaked

"Mimekor Yisrael: Selected Jewish Classical Folktales" — Micha Berdyczewski

"Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World" — Howard Schwartz

"Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies between Magic and Science" — Jason Mokhtarian

"Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories" — Howard Schwartz

"Origins of the Kabbalah" — Gershom Scholem

"On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism" — Gershom Scholem

"On My Right Michael, on My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture" — Mika Ahuvia

"Practical Kabbalah" — Rabbi Laibl Wolf

"Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick" — Isaac Lévy & Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

"Reimagining the Bible: The Storytelling of the Rabbis" — Howard Schwartz

"Sacred Monsters: Mysterious and Mythical Creatures of Scripture, Talmud and Midrash" — Rabbi Natan Silkin

"The Thirteen Petalled Rose" — Adin Steinsaltz

"The Jewish Dream Book: the Key to Opening the Inner Meaning of Your Dreams" — Vanessa L. Ochs

"The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism" — Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis

"The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism" — Daniel Matt

"The Origins of Jewish Mysticism" — Peter Schäfer

"The Bride Who Argued With G-d: Tales From the Trea­sury of Jew­ish Folklore" — Hava Ben-Zvi

"The Kab­bal­ah Read­er: A Source­book of Vision­ary Judaism" — Edward Hoff­man

"The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World" — Howard Schwartz

"The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic" — Howard Schwartz

"Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism" — Howard Schwartz

"Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge" — Esther Hamori

"Yiddish Folktales" — Beatrice Weinreich

"Zohar: The Book of Splendor" — Gershom Scholem

LANGUAGE & TRANSLATION

"A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period" — William Schneidewind

"Scrib­al Cul­ture and the Mak­ing of the Hebrew Bible" — Karel Van Der Toorn

"Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts" — Marc Epstein

"The Art of Bible Translation" — Robert Alter

"The Cen­sor, The Edi­tor, and The Text: The Catholic Church and The Shap­ing of The Jew­ish Canon in The Six­teenth Century" — Amnon Raz-Krako­rzkin

"The Story of Hebrew" — Lewis Glinert

"Trans­la­tion and Sur­vival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jew­ish Diaspora" — Tes­sa Rajak

"Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes" — William Schneidewind

HISTORY

"A History of Judaism" — Martin Goodman

"Ancient Israelite Religion" — Susan Niditch

"Final Judgement and the Dead in Medieval Jewish Thought" — Susan Weissman

"Jew­ish-Chris­t­ian Dia­logues on Scrip­ture in Late Antiquity" — Michal Bar-Ash­er Siegel

"Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel" — Katell Berthelot

"Jews and the Qur’an" — Meir M. Bar-Asher

"Josephus's 'The Jewish War': A Biography" — Martin Goodman

"Night" — Elie Wiesel

"Origin and Character of G-d: Ancient Israelite Religion Through the Lens of Divinity" — Theodore J. Lewis

"People Love Dead Jews" — Dara Horn

"Rashi's Daughters I: Joheved" — Maggie Anton

"Rashi's Daughters II: Miriam" — Maggie Anton

"Rashi's Daughters III: Rachel" — Maggie Anton

"Redis­cov­er­ing Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context" — Car­ol Meyers

"The Jewish Annotated New Testament" — Amy-Jill Levine & Marc Brettler

"The Jewish War" — Flavius Josephus

"The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words" — Simon Schama

"The Untold History of the Jewish People: The Woman who Laughed at G-d" — Jonathan Kirsch

"Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism" — Sarit Gribetz

"Why the Jews Rejected Jesus" — David Klinghoffer

PHILOSOPHY

"Ethics" — Baruch Spinoza

"Maimonides Principles: The Fundamentals of Jewish Faith" — Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

"Not In G-d’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence" — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

"The Great Partnership: G-d, Science, and the Search for Meaning" — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

"The Guide of the Perplexed" — Rabbi Moses ben Maimon

"The Handbook of Jewish Thought" — Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

"The Philosopher King in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political Thought" — Abraham Melamed