Being Here by Manini Nayar
Contemporary Poetry And Prose “We are all now writing stories. Sometimes in memory, sometimes in air. The wind lifts and passes us in gusts. Our stories scatter over continents, camouflaged histories we cannot share.”...
Category: New Books
Foundation of Faith by Rabbi Norman Lamm
A Tapestry of Insights and Illuminations on Pirkei Avot Based on the Thought and Writings of Rabbi Norman Lamm Editor: Rabbi Mark Dratch Foundation of Faith, a commentary on Pirkei Avot based on Rabbi...
Quest for Judaic Identity by Douglas Kaplan
Judaism is a religion. Jews are people. While the two are closely associated, they are, nevertheless, distinct entities. The Old Testament identifies a Jew as an individual who is a direct lineal descendant of...
Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
A rediscovered classic and international bestseller that recounts the gripping tale of a friendship destroyed at the hands of Nazi Germany In this searing novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious...
The Venice Ghetto by Chiara Camarda, Amanda K. Sharick, Katharine G. Trostel (Editors)
A Memory Space that Travels Foreword: James E. Young The Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live....
My Daughter’s Keeper by Adiva Geffen
A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor Would you entrust the most important thing in your life to a person ordered to hate you? Poland, 1938. Despite...
The Last Letter by Karen Baum Gordon
A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust Born a German Jew in 1915, Rudy Baum was eighty-six years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas...
The Return of the Absent Father by Haim Weiss, Shira Stav
A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Translator: Batya Stein The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of...
A Nazi Camp Near Danzig by Ruth Schwertfeger
Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof Within the vast network of Nazi camps, Stutthof may be the least known beyond Poland. This book is the first scholarly publication in English to...
The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt by Rebecca J. W. Jefferson
The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world’s greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a million fragments hidden...
