Come and Hear by Adam Kirsch
What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud A literary critic’s journey through the Talmud. Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi—a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around...
Category: New Books
Max and Emma Cross the Red Sea by Carl Harris Shuman
A Torah Time Travel Book Illustrator: C.B Decker Max and his new friend Emma time-travel to see Moses and the Israelites crossing the Red Sea. Together they learn some important lessons about faith, courage,...
Belonging and Betrayal by Charles Dellheim
How Jews Made the Art World Modern The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become...
The Jews of Long Island by Brad Kolodny
Excelsior Editions In an engaging narrative, The Jews of Long Island tells the story of how Jewish communities were established and developed east of New York City, from Great Neck to Greenport and Cedarhurst...
The Topsy-Turvy Bus by Anita Fitch Pazner
Illustrator: Carolina Farías Reuse, recycle, renew, and rethink! Climb aboard the Topsy-Turvy Bus with Maddy and Jake as it travels around the country teaching communities the importance of taking care of the earth and...
What They Didn’t Burn by Mel Laytner
Uncovering My Father’s Holocaust Secrets What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from the quiet, introspective dad you knew . . . or...
Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives by Lynette Bowring, Rebecca Cypess, Liza Malamut
Music and the Early Modern Imagination Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy...
The Laws of Chanukah and Purim by Rabbi Avraham Chaim Slansky
Here is a wonderful, innovative blend of pertinent, easy-to-read, practical halachah embellished by insightful lessons from Gedolim, Food for Thought; fascinating factual asides; full-color, step-by-step guides to Megillah & Menorah; plus – the whole...
I’ll Keep You Close by Jeska Verstegen
Translator: Bill Nagelkerke Jeska doesn’t know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What...
Habsburg Sons: Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1788–1918 by Peter C. Appelbaum
Habsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army, 1788-1918, concentrating on World War I. Approximately 300,000-350,000 Jews fought in the Austro-Hungarian Armies on all fronts; of these, 30,000–40,000 died of wounds or illness,...
