5769 Fall Book List
Please note that students will be responsible to reimburse the instructors for the cost of duplicating any required course packet.
BIB 121 Parashat haShavua Rabbi Jill Hammer
Bible
Course Packet
CAN 308 Introduction to Cantillation Cantor Rena Shapiro
RECOMMENDED TEXTS
Binder, A.W., Biblical Chant, Sacred Music Press, New York, 1959.
Gellis and Gribetz, The Glory of Torah Reading, M.P. Press, Jersey City, 1983.
Tikun LaKor’im, K’tav Puglishing House, New York, 1969.
Sefer Haftarot: The Book of Haftarot, Shilo.
CAN 425 Andvanced Nusach Cantor Sol Zim, Cantor Lisa Klinger-Kantor
The Sol Zim Shabbat Anthology
Siddur Sim Shalom (for Shabbat & Festivals)
Silverman Siddur (Shabbat & Festivals)
Gates of Prayer (Shabbat & Weekdays)
Gates of Prayer, complete ed., 1975
Cantor Sol Zim musical manuscripts
Tape/minidisk or other recorder
CAN 485 Contemproary Repertoire for Shabbat Evening Cantor Murray Simon
Sha’arey Tefillah: Gates of Prayer, Central Conference of American Rabbis, New York, 1975.
Mishkan T’filah: A Reform Siddur, Central Conference of American Rabbis, New York, 2007.
Zamru Lo: The Next Generation, Congregational Melodies for Shabbat, Compiled and Edited by Cantor Jeffrey Shiovitz, Cantors Assembly, New York, 2004.
Gates of Song: Music for Shabbat, American Conference of Cantors, Transcontinental Music Publications, New York, 1987.
CAN 527 Israeli Music Cantor Sol Zim
The Best of Israeli Folksongs, Tara Publications
Course Packet
HAL 401 Intro to Codes Rabbi Eric Hoffman
Primary Text:
Kagan (HaKohen), Israel Meir (‘Chofetz Chayim’), Sefer Mishnah Berurah (Commentary on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim), 6 vols. (1894-1907 & subsequently reprinted) [Hebrew: Untranslated, Unvocalized, Unpunctuated]’Complete pages containing the following are required: Vol. 1, Simanim 59, 101, 111; Vol. 2, Simanim 128, 135-138, 151, 169, 186, 225.
Aids and Collateral Readings:
Alcalay, Reuben, The Complete Hebrew-English Dictionary (Hartford, Conn.: Prayer Book Press, Inc., 1965)
Ashkenazi, Shmuel, and Yarden, Dov, Ozar Rashe Tevot: Thesaurus of Hebrew Abbreviations (Rubin Mass: Jerusalem, 1966)
Frank, Yitzhak, The Practical Talmud Dictionary (Ariel: Jerusalem, 1992)
Jastrow, Marcus, A Dictionary of the Targumim, The Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (The Judaica Press: New York, 1971)
Klein, Isaac, A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice (New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Mielziner, Moses, Introduction to the Talmud (Bloch: New York, 1968)
Siddur Kol Yaakov: The Complete Artscroll Siddur Nusach Ashkenaz [or equivalent] (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Mesorah Publications, 1990)
LIT 305 Shabbat Liturgy Rabbi Melissa Crespy
Ben Zion Bokser, The Siddur: Weekday, Sabbath and Festival, Behrman House, Springfield, New Jersey, 1957. (Bring to each session).
Lawrence A. Hoffman, editor, My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, Vol. 7, Shabbat at Home, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, Vermont, 2004.
Lawrence A. Hoffman, editor, My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, Vol. 8, Kabbalat Shabbat, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, Vermont, 2005.
Lawrence A. Hoffman, editor, My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, Vol. 10, Shabbat Morning, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, Vermont, 2007.
MEC 122 Mechina Jewish History Rabbi Eric Hoffman
Bamberger, Bernard J., The Story of Judaism (New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1957)
Bard, Mitchell and Moshe Schwartz, 1001 Facts Everyone Should Know About Israel (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
Forward Weekly Newspaper Subscription (Forward Association, Inc., 45 East 33rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10016), www.forward.com, (866) 523-9651
Goldman, Alex J., The Eternal Books Retold: A Rabbi Summarizes the 39 Books of the Bible (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1999)
PHI 301 Bioethics Rabbi Leonard Sharzer MD
The Majority of the reading assignments will be from the following two books:
Thomas A. Mappes and David DeGrazia, Biomedical Ethics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996.
Aaron L. Mackler, Life and Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics, JTS, New York, 2000. (This is an excellent book to have available as a reference, but the majority of the papers included in it are on the Rabbinical Assembly website)
The following books offer interesting and important insights about bioethics from different religious points of view. There will be occasional suggested readings from some of them.
J. David Bleich, Bioethical Dilemmas, Ktav, Hoboken, 1998.
Elliot N. Dorff, Matters of Life and Death, JPS, Philadelphia, 1998.
Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman, Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995.
Basil F. Hering, Jewish Ethics and Halakhah for our Time, Ktav, New York, 1984.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Jewish Medical Ethics, Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1975.
Fred Rosner, Modern Medicine and Jewish Ethics, Ktav, Hoboken, 1991.
Moshe Dovid Tendler, Responsa of Rav Moshe Feinstein: Volume I Care of the Critically Ill, Ktav, Hoboken, 1996.
Noam J. Zohar, Alternatives in Jewish Bioethics, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1997.
RAB 100 Introduction to Mishnah Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky
While the texts for class will be available in a sourcebook, the following are popular editions of the Mishnah.
Mishnah in Hebrew with commentary:
–Shisha Sidrei Mishnah, ed. Hanoch Albeck, Devir Publishing
–Mishnayot Mevuarot, ed. Pinchas Kehati, Heichal Shelomo
Mishnah in Hebrew with English translation and commentary:
–The Kehati Mishnah, Feldheim Publishing
–Yad Avraham, Artscroll-Mesorah Publishing
–The Blackman Mishnah, Judaica Press
Translations of the Mishnah into English:
-Danby, Herbert. The Mishnah. Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1933.
-Neusner, Jacob. The Mishnah : A New Translation. New Haven: Yale UP, 1988.
RAB 231 Intermediate Talmud Rabbi Eric Hoffman
REQUIRED BOOKS
Bergman, Meir Zvi, Mevo She’arim: Gateway to the Talmud (Mesorah: Brooklyn, New York, 1985)
Frank, Yitzhak, Grammar for Gemara: An Introduction to Babylonian Aramaic (Ariel: Jerusalem, 1975)
Frank, Yitzhak, The Practical Talmud Dictionary (Ariel: Jerusalem, 1992)
Jastrow, Marcus, A Dictionary of the Targumim, The Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (first published 1903; New York: Pardes, 1950; Judaica Press, 1985)
Mielziner, Moses, Introduction to the Talmud (Bloch: New York, 1968)
Perlmutter, Haim, Tools for Tosafos (Targum/Feldheim: Southfield, Michiagan, 1996)
Steinsaltz, Adin, The Talmud: A Reference Guide (Random House: New York, 1989)
Strack, H.L. and Stemberger, Gunter, Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash (Fortress Press: Minneapolis, 1996)
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Alcalay, Reuben, The Complete Hebrew-English Dictionary (Hartford, Conn.: Prayer Book Press,1965; Massada, 1981)
Ashkenazi, Shmuel, and Yarden, Dov, Ozar Rashe Tevot: Thesaurus of Hebrew Abbreviations (Rubin Mass: Jerusalem, 1966)
Brown, Francis, Driver, S.R. and Briggs, Charles A., A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (London: Oxford, first edition 1907, reprinted with corrections 1953)
Feigenbaum, Yitzchak, Understanding the Talmud: A Systematic Guide to Talmudic Structure and Methodology (Feldheim Publishers: Jerusalem, 1988)
Kehati, Pinchas, Mishnayot Mevo’arot (Jerusalem: Keter, 1977)
SPI 335 High Holiday Texts and Themes Rabbi Jill Hammer
Machzor (any one)
Lew, Alan, This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared
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