The Last Letter by Karen Baum Gordon
A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust Born a German Jew in 1915, Rudy Baum was eighty-six years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas...
Category: New Books
The Return of the Absent Father by Haim Weiss, Shira Stav
A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Translator: Batya Stein The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of...
A Nazi Camp Near Danzig by Ruth Schwertfeger
Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof Within the vast network of Nazi camps, Stutthof may be the least known beyond Poland. This book is the first scholarly publication in English to...
The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt by Rebecca J. W. Jefferson
The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world’s greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a million fragments hidden...
I Am Hava: A Song’s Story of Love, Hope and Joy by Freda Lewkowicz
Illustrator: Siona Benjamin The story of the world’s most famous Jewish song… as told by the song herself.
Land and Spirituality in Rabbinic Literature: A Memorial Volume for Yaakov Elman by Shana Strauch Schick (Editor)
Brill Reference Library of Judaism This volume is devoted to the texts, traditions, and practices of the Land of Israel during the Talmudic period. Using a variety of critical methodologies, this collection offers a...
The Perversion of Holocaust Memory by Judith M. Hughes
Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989 In the early years of the 21st century it appeared that the memory of the Holocaust was secure in Western Europe; that, in order to gain entry...
Aviva vs the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe
A long ago “accident.” An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn’t know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief...
Isaac’s Fear: An Early Modern Encyclopedia of Judaism by David Malkiel
Isaac’s Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, in Italy; this is the first encyclopedia of Judaism, with entries on...
Exodus and Its Aftermath by Albert Kaganovitch
Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Interior During World War II, some two million Jewish refugees relocated from the western regions of the USSR to the Soviet interior. Citizens in the Central Asian territories...
