Whatever it Takes: Restoring hope by Shea Hecht
Whatever It Takes is a collection of true stories of courage and hope, as told by Rabbi Shea Hecht, a communal leader for forty years in the Crown Heights community of Brooklyn, New York....
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New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust
Editors: Stefan Boberg, Frédéric Bonnesoeur, Hannah Wilson, Christin Zühlke In 1997, Saul Friedländer emphasized the need for an integrated history of the Holocaust. His suggestion to connect ‘the policies of the perpetrators, the attitudes...
The Swarm by Dalia Neis
A shapeshifting dream-diary and metaphysical thriller, inspired by the histories of dissident uprisings and migrational routes of Budapest; the geological depths of the hot springs, and the meandering flow of the Danube River. THE...
Heroines, Rescuers, Rabbis, Spies by Sarah Silberstein Swartz
Unsung Women of the Holocaust Discover nine ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives during the Holocaust, resisting terror and torture while undercover or in hiding, in concentration camps, in forests, and...
Between Wisdom and Torah by Jiseong James Kwon, Seth Bledsoe (Editors)
Discourses on Wisdom and Law in Second Temple Judaism Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies Previous scholars have largely approached Wisdom and Torah in the Second Temple Period through a type of reception history, whereby...
Who Gets In: An Immigration Story by Norman Ravvin
An eye-opening account of the Jewish immigration experience in the 1930s, and one man’s battle against anti-Semitic immigration policies. In 1930, a young Jewish man, Yehuda Yosef Eisenstein, arrived in Canada from Poland to...
Gryphons Don’t Celebrate Shavuot by Michelle Franklin
Illustrator: Jonathan Burrello Loveable Monster Holiday Book Gryphons don’t mind whether you say Shavuot or Shavuos. They just want you to know that cheesecake is the reason for the season and that you should...
The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Memoir by Davon Loeb
The In-Betweens tells the story of a biracial boy becoming a man, all the while trying to find himself, trying to come to terms with his white family, and trying to find his place...
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean by Lia Brozgal
A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean brings together the fascinating personal stories of Jewish writers, scholars,...
The 7 Deadly Myths by Alex Ryvchin
Antisemitism from the time of Christ to Kanye West The 7 Deadly Myths traces antisemitism from its earliest origins to the present day and uncovers the dangerous conspiracy theories that have corrupted reasoning and...
