The Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society)

The Jews (Falasha) of northwestern Ethiopia are a distinct instance of a Jewish crew dwelling inside an historical, non-Western, predominantly Christian society. Hagar Salamon offers the 1st in-depth research of this workforce, known as the "Hyena humans" through their non-Jewish buddies. in response to greater than a hundred interviews with Ethiopian immigrants now residing in Israel, Salamon's publication explores the Ethiopia inside as obvious in the course of the lens of person stories and expressed via ongoing dialogues.

Holy Beggars: A Journey from Haight Street to Jerusalem

The Nineteen Sixties San Francisco non secular revolution – a view from inside of. Memoir a few religious instructor and a scholar in Sixties San Francisco, a colourful forged – together with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Allen Ginsburg, Murshid Samuel Lewis ("Sufi Sam"), Swami Satchidananda, Ajari Warwick, Rabbi Zalman Shalomi Schachter, and lots of extra – and lives that have been replaced perpetually.

The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition

A delusion exists that Jews can include the cultural parts of Judaism with no appreciating the criminal facets of the Jewish culture. This fantasy means that legislations and tradition are self sufficient of each other. actually, even though, a lot of Jewish tradition has a foundation in Jewish legislations. equally, Jewish legislations produces Jewish tradition.

Paths of Wisdom: Cabala in the Golden Dawn Tradition

Acclaimed as an quick vintage on its unique booklet and eagerly sought by way of scholars of magic ever considering, Paths of knowledge is a accomplished creation to the idea and perform of the magical Cabala, as practiced in the airtight Order of the Golden sunrise and so much different modern Western occult traditions.