Book List

Academic Year 2010-2011

The following are the required books for courses offered during the Winter trimester (2011). Books for courses in the Rabbinical, Cantorial and Chaplaincy Schools are all noted in this list.

Instructor Title Author/Publisher List Price
Aronson, Judy The Toolbox for Teachers and Mentors Richard D and Elaine C Solomon $33.95
August, Toba Commentators’ Bible: The JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot-Exodus Translated and edited by Michael Carasik, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, PA 2005 $50.00
August, Toba Masters of the Word:Traditional Jewish Bible Commentary from the Eleventh Through Thirteenth Centuries Volume 2 Yonatan Kolatch, KTAV Publishing House, Inc. Jersey City, NJ, 2007 $35.00
Bloomstein, Yolande A Guide to Crisis Intervention. Third Edition Kristi Kanel, Wadsworth Publishing: Belmont, California 2006
Bouskila, Daniel A Book That Was Lost: Thirty Five Stories Hebrew Classics $12.00
Diamond, Mark The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar: By the Power Vested in Me Jack H. Bloom, The Haworth Press, 2002 $50.50
Diamond, Mark The New Rabbi: A Congregation Searches for Its Leader Stephen Fried, Bantam Books, 2002 $16.00
Diamond, Mark The Rabbi-Congregation Relationship: A Vision for the 21st Century Rabbi Richard Hirsh, Reconstructionist Commission on the Role of the Rabbi, Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, 2001 $12.00
Finley, Mordecai (MYS) Kabbalah: The Mystic Quest in Judaism David S. Ariel, Rowman and Littlefield, Inc. 2005 $15.00
Finley, Mordecai (MYS) A Guide to the Zohar Arthur Green, Stanford University Press, 2004 $15.00
Finley, Mordecai (MYS) The Zohar, Pritzker Edition, Volume I Daniel Matt, Stanford University Press, 2004 $25.00
Frankiel, Tamar Koren-Sacks Siddur Koren Publishing $21.75
Frankiel, Tamar Tanakh Any Tanakh is acceptable, Hebrew-English Preferred $14-$17
Gereboff, Joel The Prophetic Literature: An Introduction David L. Petersen, Westminster, John Knox Press, ISBN 0-664-25453-5
Gereboff, Joel Interpreting Biblical Texts: The Prophetic Literature Marvin Sweeney, Abingdon Press
Gereboff, Joel Jewish Publication Society Bible Commentary: Haftarot Michael Fishbane
Gereboff, Joel How to Read the Bible Marc Brettler, JPS
Gereboff, Joel Jewish Study Bible Marc Brettler and Adele Berlin, Oxford University Press 2003
Gereboff, Joel Course Reader Available from AJRCA $50.00
Gottlieb, Mel Tanakh Hebrew-English, Jewish Publication Society, 2003 $15.00
Gottlieb, Mel The Power of Myth Joseph Campbell, Doubleday, 1991 $10.00
Gottlieb, Mel The Resilient Spirit Polly Young-Eisendrath, Addison-Wesley, 1997 $9.00
Gottlieb, Mel A Passion for Truth Abraham Joshua Heschel. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1995 $16.00
Gottlieb, Mel The Denial of Death Ernest Becker. Free Press, 1997 $10.00
Gottlieb, Mel The Soul’s Code James Hillman. Doubleday, 1997 $16.00
Gottlieb, Mel Soul’s on Fire Elie Weisel, 1982 $6.00
Levy, Robert A History of the Jews In Modern Times Lloyd P. Gartner, Oxford University Press, November 2000, ISBN: 0192892592 $45.00
Levy, Robert Course Reader Available from AJRCA $50.00
Levy, Robert A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz, Harvest Books, 2005, ISBN-10: 015603252X $16.00
Menitoff, Michael Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Elliot Dorff, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2006
Zighelboim, Jacob Matters of Life and Death Elliottt Dorff, JPS $19.00