The Gelt Giving Golem by Carolyn Greenwald
The book at Amazon The Gelt Giving Golem tells the tale of the Hanukkah Golem, a friendly character who was formed from clay by Rabbi Ben Bezalel on the 25th of Kislev, the first...
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Challah: A Chewish Guide to the Torah by Rabbi Susan Abramson
The book at Amazon It’s a cookbook. It’s a compendium of uniquely-shaped, colorful challahs. It’s a family-friendly guide to Torah. It’s fun for all ages! The challahs in this book come to life. Some...
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis by Arthur Allen
The book at Amazon and on Kindle. Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed – refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples – causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling...
The June Jewish Book Carnival
The June Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod at Write Kids’ Books! At http://blog.writekidsbooks.org/2014/06/carnival-of-jewish-books.html. You’ll find links to Jewish book...
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée
Dr. Zhivago’s CIA Connection and the Pope ‘The Zhivago Affair’ is a detailed reconstruction of one of the most fascinating of the Cold War’s cultural skirmishes Whether Doctor Zhivago contributed in any measurable way...
A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century by Noah J. Efron
Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why Jews have succeeded extravagantly in modern science. Rejecting the idea that Jews have done well in science because of uniquely Jewish traits, Jewish brains, and Jewish...
Rewritten Bible after Fifty Years: Texts, Terms, or Techniques? A Last Dialogue with Geza Vermes; Edited by József Zsengellér
Rewritten Bible After Fifty Years presents the papers of a conference on the meanings and usages of the term Rewritten Bible introduced by Geza Vermes in 1961. Leading scholars of the topic discuss their new...
The Late Starters Orchestra by Ari L. Goldman
If you thought a fiddler on a roof was in a precarious position, imagine what happens when a middle-aged professor with a bad back takes up the cello. Ari Goldman hasn’t played in twenty-five...
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature; Their Status and Roles by Paul Heger
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles portrays the tension between the unity of husband and wife and their different legal and social status from a wide range...
Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich by Joanne D. Gilbert
Gihon River Press just released Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich which provides a unique and inspiring perspective on the extraordinary Jewish and non- Jewish women who risked everything to defy the Nazis. In...
