Who Will Rule the Trees? by Eric A. Kimmel
Illustrated by Alette Straathof The work of Creation is finished. Now is the time for the trees to select a ruler. The oak brings strength. The pine brings presence. The maple brings magnificent color....
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Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Jewish, Confederate, Expatriate Sculptor by Samantha Baskind
How is it that the prolific nineteenth-century sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel is largely forgotten today? Ezekiel was the first renowned Jewish American artist and one of the most popular artist-celebrities of his day. In...
When Eichmann Knocked on Our Door by Tamar Hausner Raveh, Amos Hausner
What was it like to grow up in the house where history was being made? As Attorney General of Israel, Gideon Hausner led the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect and executor of...
Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor by Jennifer Caplan, Jarrod Tanny, Avinoam Patt (Editors),
Searching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and...
The First Ghetto: Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism by Alexander Lee
From an acclaimed historian, the definitive story of the Venetian Ghetto and the emergence of modern antisemitism.In the early sixteenth century, amidst the ruins of war and mounting religious hatred, the world’s first Jewish...
Jews in the Soviet Union by Anna Shternshis
A History: Postwar Life, Hopes, and Fears, 1945–1953, Volume 4 Offers a compelling account of how Soviet Jews rebuilt their lives amid postwar devastation, rising hostility, discrimination and the repressive final years of Stalin’s...
The Nazi Ghost Train: Evasion, Betrayal, and Escape during World War II by Greg Lewis
The dramatic true story of the heroic rescue of Allied resistance fighters from a Nazi prison train after a devastating betrayal. In the final hours before the liberation of Brussels in 1944, the Germans...
1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World by Liaquat Ahamed
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind Over the...
Confession: The Story of a Jewish Family During the Nazi Occupation of Poland by Calek Perechodnik
Translated by Jarosław GarlińskiEdited by David Engel The haunting wartime diary of a Jewish policeman and his tragic fate. Calek Perechodnik (1916–1944), a Polish Jew from the town of Otwock near Warsaw, found himself...
Emotion in the Jewish Mystical Tradition by Lawrence Fine, Joel Hecker, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel (Editors)
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Emotions and emotional life have come to assume an important place in the study of religion and the humanities, but little attention has yet been given to considering...
