The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she’s hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her...
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Anne Frank on the Postwar Dutch Stage: Performance, Memory, Affect by Remco Ensel
Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the...
The State of Israel vs. the Jews by Sylvain Cypel
Translator: William Rodarmor From an award-winning journalist, a perceptive study of how Israel’s actions, which run counter to the traditional historical values of Judaism, are putting Jewish people worldwide in an increasingly untenable position....
The Glass House by Rafael Shamay
The astonishing and previously-untold WWII story from the great rescue of Budapest’s Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary.On April 19, 1944 – Germany invaded Hungary, in order to block Hungary from siding with the Allies. Until...
Falik and His House by Jacob Dinezon
Translator: Mindy Liberman Jacob Dinezon’s novella Falik and His House, originally published in Yiddish in 1904 and translated into English for the first time by Mindy Liberman, tells the story of an elderly tailor...
Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question: Extending the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik by Benji Levy
Jewish Thought and Philosophy Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question reevaluates conversion and Jewish identity through the lens of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s dual conception of the Covenants of Fate and Destiny. By studying...
The Beginning of Kabbalah Wisdoms by The Kabbalist Rabbi Kolomous Kalman Altessler
226 rules & statements In Kabbalah – An Introduction To Kabbalistic thought Tells his words to Yaakov…….The contents of this book, is precious. For it is an introduction and introduction of the rules to...
Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust by Joanna Sliwa
Jewish Childhood in Kraków is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences. Here, children assume center stage as historical actors...
The Rabbi and the Painter by Shoshona Weiss
Illustrator: Jennifer Kirkham Based on stories handed down from the past, this is the tale of a unique relationship between the 16th Century Venetian painter Tintoretto and Rabbi Leon Modena also known as Yahuda...
Horodno Burning by Michael Freed-Thall
In the Russian Empire’s Pale of Settlement, Esther Leving, a brilliant young bibliophile, chafes at male dominance, religious dogma, and antisemitism. Bernard Garfinkle, a religious Jew and the son of a vodka distiller, hides...
