The Tree and the Vine by Dola de Jong
Translator: Kristen Gehrman When Bea meets Erica at the home of a mutual friend, this chance encounter sets the stage for the story of two women torn between desire and taboo in the years...
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Escaping On The Danube River by Shmuel David
A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor Europe, 1939: Hanne is an adolescent boy, born into a wealthy family from Belgrade. Realizing the Nazi threat is advancing...
The Escape Artist by Helen Fremont
In the tradition of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home or George Hodgman’s Bettyville, Fremont writes with wit and candor about growing up in a household held together by a powerful glue: secrets. Her parents, profoundly affected by their...
Tikkun Olam: Israel vs. COVID 19 by Jodie Cohen
How is One of the Planet’s Smallest Countries Helping to Tackle the World’s Biggest Challenge? Over the past decade, Israel has become known as a powerhouse of innovations, helping to improve people’s everyday lives....
The Hard Way Home by Jean Grainger
Dublin 1950. Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She’d...
Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought by Aaron Koller
Unbinding Isaac takes readers on a trek of discovery for our times into the binding of Isaac story. Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard viewed the story as teaching suspension of ethics for the sake of...
To the Moon on a Plastic Bottle: The Story Behind Israel’s Start-Up Babies by Dan Raviv and Linor Bar-El
Translator: Jessica Setbon To the Moon on a Plastic Bottle reveals the secrets behind the entrepreneurship craze of Israel’s young generation, the engine that’s leading the innovation train. Readers go behind the scenes of...
A History of Kabbalah: From the Early Modern Period to the Present Day by Jonathan Garb
This volume offers a narrative history of modern Kabbalah, from the sixteenth century to the present. Covering all sub-periods, schools, and figures, Jonathan Garb demonstrates how Kabbalah expanded over the last few centuries, and...
The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue by Marina Rustow
The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina...
Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel W. Taylor
Originally compiled in 1859, this book is a collection of Nathaniel Taylor’s lectures considering the moral government of God. The moral government of god was the great thought of Dr. Taylor’s intellect, and the...
