The Radical Isaac by Adi Mahalel
I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism Suny Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture Yiddish and Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz (1852-1915) was a major leader of Eastern European Jewry in the years...
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Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust: Young Reader’s Edition by Hédi Fried
Illustrator: Laila Ekboir Translator: Alice E. Olsson A young readers’ edition of the bestselling book from Auschwitz survivor Hédi Fried that answers lasting questions about the Holocaust. Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis...
American Born by Rachel M. Brownstein
An Immigrant’s Story, a Daughter’s Memoir An incisive memoir of Rachel M. Brownstein’s seemingly quintessential Jewish mother, a resilient and courageous immigrant in New York. When she arrived alone in New York in 1924,...
Mind over Batter: 75 Recipes for Baking as Therapy by Jack Hazan
A self-care cookbook for using baking as therapy from licensed psychotherapist and master baker Jack Hazan, with 75 simple, therapeutic recipes. You may not realize it, but many essential therapeutic techniques can be accessed...
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain: A New History by Jonathan Ray
Jewish Culture and Contexts Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of...
Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the “Bitch of Buchenwald” by Tomaz Jardim
An authoritative reassessment of one of the Third Reich’s most notorious war criminals, whose alleged sexual barbarism made her a convenient scapegoat and obscured the true nature of Nazi terror. On September 1, 1967,...
The Miracle Seed by Martin Lemelman
The thrilling true story of an ancient plant, wonderfully reborn in the modern era through the hard work of two female scientists. Thousands of years ago, in a time of rebellion, the Jewish people...
The Woman Beyond the Sea by Sarit Yishai-Levi
Translator: Gilah Kahn-Hoffman A mesmerizing novel about three generations of women who have lost each other―and the quest to weave them back into a family. An immersive historical tale spanning the life stories of...
Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement by Rotem Rozental
Routledge History of Photography By entering and critically re-activating the Zionist photographic archive established by the Division of Journalism and Propaganda of the Jewish National Fund, this research examines its rippling impact on civil...
Subcontractors of Guilt by Esra Özyürek
Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country’s Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but...
