A Book About Bubkes by Leslie Kimmelman
Illustrator: Roxana de Rond This is a book about bupkes: nothing, zero, zilch. Sometimes, though, what looks like nothing turns out to be the most important thing of all. An empty garden seems like...
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A Gift of Feathers by Ken Schept
Illustrator: Romina Galotta A picture book by Ken Schept and illustrated by Romina Galotta about the power of remembrance and intergenerational tradition. When she finds a feather, Grandma Dot adds it to her collection. Feathers,...
The Belarusian Shtetl: History and Memory by Irina Kopchenova, Mikhail Krutikov (Editors)
Jews of Eastern Europe For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English,...
Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed by Marsha Lederman
For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’...
The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line by James M. Thomas
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity The Souls of Jewish Folk argues that late nineteenth-century Germany’s struggle with its “Jewish question”―what to do with Germany’s Jews―served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B....
Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society by Kimmy Caplan, Nissim Leon (Editors)
This edited volume offers profiles of contemporary Israeli Haredi (i.e., Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) society from several disciplinary points of view, resisting a generalized approach and examining the different, sometimes competing currents, that define it. It...
It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity by Sonia Gollance
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo...
Ben’s Bonkers Bar Mitzvah by Ivor Baddiel
Illustrator: Zoom Rockman Ben Jacobs has made a list of everything that could possibly go wrong at his bar mitzvah, but even he didn’t foresee that the shul might disappear just days before the...
Tradition and Transformation by Ori Z Soltes
A Comprehensive Exploration of Three Millenia of Jewish Art and Architecture This highly ambitious volume addresses the idea of “Jewish art and architecture” by posing and responding to a series of questions. First is...
Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance by Caroline Gruenbaum, Annegret Oehme (Editors)
Jewish Engagements This study features essays from leading scholars highlighting the important Jewish contributions to the popular medieval genre of romance. Writing against strict notions of genre boundaries and canonization, this volume provides a...
