Israel 201 by Joel Chasnoff, Benji Lovitt
Your Next-Level Guide to the Magic, Mystery, and Chaos of Life in the Holy Land Why do Israelis go bike riding on Yom Kippur? How did Jerusalem’s stray cat problem spur religious debate? And...
Category: New Books
The 12th Commandment by Daniel Torday
Swirling with secrets and their consequences, exploring how revelation and redemption might be accessed through sin, and driven through twists and turns toward a startling conclusion, The 12th Commandment is a brilliant novel by...
On the Move: Home Is Where You Find It by Michael Rosen
Illustrator: Quentin Blake In a masterful new collaboration, personal poems and poignant art illuminate the experience of refugees and immigrants everywhere. That’s whyit can happen again.It does happen again.It has happened again. Some of...
The Path to Happiness: A Jewish Chassidic perspective by Rabbi Pesach Scheiner
The Path to Happiness: A Jewish Chassidic Perspective by Rabbi Pesach Scheiner offers a unique perspective on attaining true happiness in life. Through exploring Jewish and Chassidic teachings, the author delves into the misconceptions...
Nuri and the Whale by Ronit Chacham
Illustrator: Moran Yogev Every day young Nuri makes his way to the sea shore to eat some bread and throw a piece into the waves. He does so because his father told him to...
Holocaust Literature and Representation: Their Lives, Our Words
Editors: Phyllis Lassner, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Series Editor: Kitty Millet Each scholar working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation has a story to tell. Not only the scholarly story of the work...
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown...
Virtual Holocaust Memory by Matthew Boswell, Antony Rowland
The Holocaust was the defining cataclysm of modernity. Now, more than three quarters of a century later, the immersive, interactive technologies of the digital age are dramatically refashioning our memory of that genocide. Virtual...
The Night Travelers by Armando Lucas Correa
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling...
Jewish Culture between Canon and Heresy by David Biale
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These pieces, written between 1974...
