A Wing and A Prayer: My Life and Times by Malcolm Weisman
Reverend Malcolm Weisman OBE played a unique role in Anglo Jewry for nearly three quarters of a century. As an RAF Chaplain from 1957 and a Barrister at Law from 1961, he drove his...
Category: New Books
When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash by Ethan B. Katz, Sergey Dolgopolski, Elisha Ancselovits (Editors )
Routledge Approaches to History This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they...
The Jake Show by Joshua S. Levy
In Joshua S. Levy’s hilarious and charming middle grade novel, a Jewish seventh grade boy is caught between the worlds of his divorced parents—with an orthodox mother and secular father, Jake must concoct a...
A Book About Bubkes by Leslie Kimmelman
Illustrator: Roxana de Rond This is a book about bupkes: nothing, zero, zilch. Sometimes, though, what looks like nothing turns out to be the most important thing of all. An empty garden seems like...
A Gift of Feathers by Ken Schept
Illustrator: Romina Galotta A picture book by Ken Schept and illustrated by Romina Galotta about the power of remembrance and intergenerational tradition. When she finds a feather, Grandma Dot adds it to her collection. Feathers,...
The Belarusian Shtetl: History and Memory by Irina Kopchenova, Mikhail Krutikov (Editors)
Jews of Eastern Europe For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English,...
Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed by Marsha Lederman
For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’...
The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line by James M. Thomas
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity The Souls of Jewish Folk argues that late nineteenth-century Germany’s struggle with its “Jewish question”―what to do with Germany’s Jews―served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B....
Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society by Kimmy Caplan, Nissim Leon (Editors)
This edited volume offers profiles of contemporary Israeli Haredi (i.e., Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) society from several disciplinary points of view, resisting a generalized approach and examining the different, sometimes competing currents, that define it. It...
It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity by Sonia Gollance
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo...
