At Night’s End by Nir Baram
Translator: Jessica Cohen A writer wakes up in a hotel room in an unfamiliar city. His clothes are muddy; he doesn’t know how long he’s been lying in bed. Yonatan came to participate in...
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10 Really Dumb Mistakes that Very Smart Couples Make by Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier
A Torah Guide to a Successful Marriage Every smart young couple starts their marriage with the same dreams, goals, and ideals. They’re one hundred percent sure that they will live in married bliss forever. Until they aren’t....
The Laws and Customs of Krias HaTorah by Rabbi Mordechai Fishman
An Adaption of Sefer Sha’arei Ephraim *The wrong sefer Torah has been taken out in shul. “Rolling” it to the correct place will cause significant tircha d’tzibura. Can the sefer Torah be switched? *The...
“A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch”: The Holocaust Diary of Lucien Dreyfus by Alexandra Garbarini, Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context This extraordinary wartime diary provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of French and foreign-born Jewish refugees under the Vichy regime during World War II....
Jews by the Seaside: The Jewish Hotels and Guesthouses of Bournemouth by Pam Fox
This book describes the rise and decline of Bournemouth’s Jewish hotels and guest houses within the context of Anglo-Jewish history, the growth of Bournemouth as a premier resort, and the evolution of its Jewish...
Moshkeleh the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel by Sholom Aleichem, Curt Leviant
This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem’s rediscovered novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before...
Embodiment of Divine Knowledge in Early Judaism by Andrei A. Orlov
Routledge Studies in the Biblical World This volume explores the early Jewish understanding of divine knowledge as divine presence, which is embodied in major biblical exemplars, such as Adam, Enoch, Jacob, and Moses. The...
Emmanuel by Donald Wallenfang
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is perhaps one of the best-kept philosophical secrets of recent times. By locating ethics as first philosophy, based on the call of the other, Levinas has revolutionized the Western philosophical tradition....
The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora by Hasia R. Diner
Oxford Handbook Series For as long as historians have contemplated the Jewish past, they have engaged with the idea of diaspora. Dedicated to the study of transnational peoples and the linkages these people forged...
Fanny and Gabriel by Nava Semel
A love story as implausible as this must be true. Their first date was arranged by a professional matchmaker. A deal, a pragmatic matter that had nothing to do with romance – that’s how...
