Anna and Dr Helmy by Ronen Steinke
How an Arab Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler’s Berlin The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the...
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Once We Were Slaves by Laura Arnold Leibman
The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic...
Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust by Rachel L. Einwohner
A powerful account of Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe and why such resistance was so remarkable. Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, “Why didn’t Jews resist?”...
Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of...
Divine Violence in the Book of Samuel by Rachelle Gilmour
Much of the drama, theological paradox, and interpretive interest in the Book of Samuel derives from instances of God’s violence in the story. The beginnings of Israel’s monarchy are interwoven with God’s violent rejection...
A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture by Jason Lustig
Oxford Series on History and Archives How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time to Gather argues that historical records...
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the...
The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance by Naomi M. Jackson, Rebecca Pappas, Toni Shapiro-Phim (Editors)
Responding to recent evolutions in the fields of dance and religious and secular studies, The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance documents and celebrates the significant impact of Jewish identity on a variety of...
The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint; Editors: Alison G. Salvesen, Timothy Michael Law
Oxford Handbooks The Septuagint is the term commonly used to refer to the corpus of early Greek versions of Hebrew Scriptures. The collection is of immense importance in the history of both Judaism and...
When Near Becomes Far: Old Age in Rabbinic Literature by Mira Balberg, Haim Weiss
When Near Becomes Far explores the representations and depictions of old age in the rabbinic Jewish literature of late antiquity (150-600 CE). Through close literary readings and cultural analysis, the book reveals the gaps...
