Jewish Religion

The 114 books on this Jewish Religion and History CD include: The Tanach (Jewish Bible), The Babylonian Talmud (20 volumes), The Midrash, The Kaballah, and the works of Josephus.

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Table of Contents

Judaism

• The Tanach or Jewish Bible, 1917 Jewish Publication Societies' English translation
• The Babylonian Talmud translated by Michale L. Rodkinson
• Volume 1 -- Tract Sabath volume 1
•  Volume 2 -- Tract Sabbath volume 2
• Section Moed (Festivals)
• Volume 3 -- Tract Erubin
• Volume 4 -- Tracts Shekalim and Rosh Hashana
• Volume 5 -- Tract Pesachim
• Volume 6 -- Tracts Yomah and Hagiga
• Volume 7 -- Tracts Betzah, Succah, an Moed Katan
• Volume 8 -- Tracts Taanith, Megill, and Ebel Rabbathi
• Section Jurisprudence (Damages)
• Volume 9 -- Tracts Aboth, Derch-Eretz, and Zeta
• Volume 10 -- Tract Baba Kama, Part 1
• Volume 11 -- Tract Baba Kama Part 2 and Baba Metzia Part 1
• Volume 12 -- Tract Baba Metzia Part 2
• Volume 13 -- Tract Baba Bathra Part 1
• Volume 14 -- Tract Baba Bathra Part 2
• Volume 15 -- Tract Sanhedrin Part 1
• Volume 16 -- Tract Sanhedrin Part 2
• Volume 17 -- Tracts Maccoth, Shebuoth, and Eduyoth
• Volume 18 -- Tracts Abuda Zara and Horioth
• Volume 19 -- History of the Talmud volume 1
• Volume 20 -- History of the Talmud volume 2
• Extracts from the Talmud and the Midrash
• Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth) translated by Charles Taylor [an extract from the Talmud]
• Saying of the Jewish Fathers (Pirke Abot) translated by Joseph Gorfinkle
• part 1
• part 2
• Hebraic Literature: translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
• Hebrew Literature, comprising talmudic treatises. etc.
• Tales and Maxims from the Midrashby Rev. Samuel Rapaport
• Medieval Hebrew, featuring the Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish Biblical lore and legend
• Kabbala
• Kabbala Denudat: The Kabbalah Unveiled, containing the following Books of the Zohar: The Book of Concealed Mystery, The Greater Holy Assembly, and The Lesser Holy Assembly, translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers
• Kabbalah -- Sepher Yetzirah, translated by W.W. Westcott (short)
• The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, translated from German by Henrietta Szold
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides translated by M. Friedlander
• I Believe by Moses Maimonides (short)
• Chapters on Jewish Literature by Israel Abrahams, 1899
• Hebrew Life and Times by Harold Hunting
• The History of a Lie (about the "protocols of the wise men of Zion") by Herman Bernstein
• A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
• Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich, 1910
• The Makers and Teachers of Judaism from the Fall of Jerusalem to the Death of Herod the Great by Charles Foster Kent, 1911
• Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude (in German) by Jakob Wassermann
• Children of the Ghetto: a Study of a Peculiar People by I. Zangwell, 1914
• Chosen Peoples by Israel Zangwill
• The Dogmas of Judaism (Chapter 6 of STudies in Judaism) by solomon Schechter
• Dreamers of the Ghetto by I. Zangwill
• A Guide for Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth by Isaac Reggio
• Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by TGertrude Landa (AKA Aunt Naomi)
• Judaism by Israel Abraham
• The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob Raisin, 1913
• Kitab al Kazari by Judah Hallevi, translated from the Arabic by Hartwig Hirschfeld
• Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago by Hannah Trager
• Rabbi and Priest by Milton Goldsmith
• Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz
• The Shield (a book about Russian Jews) edited by Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev,a nd Fyodor Sologub
• Stories of the Prophets by Isaac Landman
• Water Baptism: a Pagan and Jewish Rite, but not Christian by James Moon
• Gebete fur Israeliten (in German) by A.A. Wolff

History of Israel and the Hebrew People

Israel, A Country Study, compiled for Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, under a program sponsored by the US Department of the Army, Edited by Helen Chapin Metz, Dec. 1988

• Patriarchal Palestine by Rev. A.H. Sayce
• The Beginnings of Israel's History by Charles Foster Kent and Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
• Chaldea: from the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyra by Zenaide Ragozin
• Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by Rev. A. H. Sayce, 1899
• Prolegomena to the History of Israel by Julius Wellhausen, translated from German by J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies
• Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore
• Hebrew Heroes by A.L.O.E., 1870
• Jewish History: an Essay in the Philosophy of History by S.M. Dubnow
• The Jew and American Ideals by John Spargo
• Palestine or the Holy Land from the earlist period to the present time by Michael Russell
• Lord's Lectures: Beacon Lights of History volume 2: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord
• How Jerusalem Was Won: Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine [WW I] by W.T. Massey
• The Menorah Journal, volume 1, number 1, Jan. 1915
• The New Land by Elma Ehrlich Levinger, 1920
• The Promised Land by Mary Antin
• Suggestions to the Jews for Improvement, 1844
• Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine-Gun Squadron
• Twelve Studies on the Making of a Nation: the Beginnings of Israel's History by Charles Foster Kent and Jeremiah Whipple
• With the Turks in Palestine by Alexander Aaronsohn
• Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Max Nordau and Gustav Gottheil
• Josephus
• Against Apion
• Antiquities of the Jews
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Extract from the Greeks Concerning Hades (short)
• Life of Flavius Josephus
• Wars of the Jews
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7

Travel to Israel

• The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (12th Century) translated by Marcus Adler, 1907
• Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
• Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor
• Oriental Encounters, Palestine and Syria 1894-96 by Marmaduke William Pickthall
• Out-of-Doors in the Holly land by Henry Van Dyke, 1908
• A Ride Across Palestine by Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
• Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
• A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy by Ida Peiffer (1797-1858)

Poetry

• Poems of Emma Lazarus
• volume 1
• volume 2

Historical Fiction

• Alroy or the Prince of Captivity by Benjamin Disraeli
• For the Temple, a Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by G.A. Henty
• The Shield (about Russian Jews) edited by Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, and Fyodor Sologub
• Der Moloch (in German) by Jakob Wasserman
• Jewish Children by Hannah Berman, 1921
• Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)

Jewish Cook Books

• The International Jewish Cook Book by Florence Greenbaum, 1919
• The Jewish Manual or Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Society, 1846