Escape from the Ghetto by John Carr
A Story of Survival and Resilience in World War II This captivating true story of one boy’s flight across Europe to escape the Nazis is a tale of extraordinary courage, incredible adventure, and the...
Category: New Books
“And You Shall Tell Your Son”: Identity and Belonging as Shaped by the Jewish Holidays by Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg
Translated from the Hebrew by Nancy Rosenfeld In this volume, Bible Studies scholar Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg offers an educational, values-based approach to the cycle of Jewish holidays―festivals and holy days―as found in the Jewish...
G’mar chatima tova! 5783
FYI: The image above is a “Late 19th Century Austro-Hungarian Silver Yom Kippur Belt Buckle”, available here. What is a “Yom Kippur Belt Buckle”? “Traditionally, Orthodox Jewish worshippers have worn a white gown on...
Becoming Ordinary by Michael Fox
A Youth Born of the Holocaust, A Youth Born of the Holocaust, What I Kept, What I Let Go… What is a Jew? A Jew is someone who argues with God whether he believes...
The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda by Shoshana Nambi
Illustrator: Moran Yogev Sukkot is Shoshi’s favorite Jewish holiday. She and her brothers love to decorate their sukkah, the hut where her family will celebrate. But who will win the Ugandan Abayudaya community’s annual...
Mrs. Noah’s Doves by Jane Yolen
Illustrator: Alida Massari Mrs. Noah kept birds. She kept many a variety of birds, ravens and robins, eagles and eiders, cockatoos and crows. But out of all the birds she kept, her favorite were...
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
Edited by Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis, Amalia S. Levi Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics As in all fields and disciplines of the humanities, Jewish Studies scholars find...
The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich
Edited by Bernard M. Levinson, Robert P. Ericksen Studies in Antisemitism How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany’s Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have...
Things to Come and Go by Bette Howland
From the acclaimed author of Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and the memoir W-3, a trio of novellas about three women’s bold exploration of the desire for belonging as it comes into conflict with...
The Man in the Shadows by Alys Clare
A World’s End Bureau Victorian Mystery Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham tackle a puzzling miscarriage of justice and the curious case of a missing child, in the new, gripping World’s End Bureau...
