The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler
One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about...
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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...
Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959) by Katharina Friedla, Markus Nesselrodt (Editors)
History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival The majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust in the interior of the Soviet Union. This collection of...
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman
A spellbinding and unorthodox look into the life of Leonard Cohen, and the way his experiences with religion and spirituality produced one of the greatest musicians of our time. Leonard Cohen’s music is studded...
Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement by Julian E. Zelizer
Jewish Lives “When I marched in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.” So said Polish-born American rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) of his involvement in the 1965 Selma civil rights march alongside Martin...
Beyond a Code of Jewish Law: Rabbi Avraham Danzig’s Ḥayei Adam by Simcha Fishbane
Judaism and Jewish Life The Ḥayei Adam, an abridged code of Jewish law, was written by Rabbi Avraham Danzig (1748-1820) and was first published in 1810. This code spread quickly throughout Europe, and the...
The $150,000 Rugelach by Allison and Wayne Marks
Illustrator: Ariel Landy A delicious tale of rivalry, friendship, heartache, and dessert! Fame-obsessed Jack and somber Jillian, who is mourning the loss of her mother, become a mismatched duo selected to compete for $150,000...
Warm and Welcoming by Warren Hoffman, Miriam Steinberg-Egeth (Editors)
How the Jewish Community Can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century Warm and Welcoming: How the Jewish Community Can Become Truly Diverse and Inclusive in the 21st Century is the first...
The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography by Jacques Berlinerblau
Let it be said, Philip Roth was never uncontroversial. From his first book, Roth scandalized literary society as he questioned Jewish identity and sexual politics in postwar America. Scrutiny and fierce rebukes of the...
To Be a Holy People: Jewish Tradition and Ethical Values by Eugene Korn
Can Jewish tradition face our modern understanding of justice, equality and human progress? Can mitsvot survive modernity’s deep critique of authority and culture of personal autonomy? To Be a Holy People: Jewish Tradition and...
