Larry’s Latkes by Jenny Waldman
Illustrator: Ben Whitehouse Everyone knows that Big Larry makes the best latkes in town. This year he is throwing a Hanukkah party for all this friends, and the latkes need to be extra special....
Category: New Books
Sources on Jewish Self-government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present by Franois Guesnet, Jerzy Tomaszewski (Editors)
Illustrating and documenting one thousand years of Jewish self-government in Polish and Lithuanian lands, this pioneering volume offers sources on Jewish communal organisation, civil and religious leadership, state policies, legislative projects, and the eastern...
Jacob Katz on the Origins of Orthodoxy by Giti Bendheim
Editors: Menachem Butler, Jay M. Harris, Uriel Katz Professor Jacob Katz (1904-1998) was one of the giants of Jewish scholarship in the 20th century. There is virtually no aspect of Asheknazic Jewish life in...
The Angel and the Cholent by Idit Pintel-Ginsberg
Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives by Idit Pintel-Ginsberg, translated into English for the first time from Hebrew, analyzes how food...
Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of...
For the Freedom of Zion by Guy MacLean Rogers
The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66–74 CE This deeply researched and insightful book examines the causes, course, and historical significance of the Jews’ failed revolt against Rome from 66 to 74 CE,...
Under Jerusalem by Andrew Lawler
The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that,...
Margarete Susman – Religious-Political Essays on Judaism by Elisa Klapheck
Jewish Thought and Philosophy Translator: Laura Radosh Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today. This book presents, for the first time in...
The Age of the Parákletos by Ron Naiweld
A Historical Defense of Rabbinic Knowledge This book concerns the history of the Bible, Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and theological-political thought in the West. Its operation is threefold. First, it shows that the biblical text...
Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust by Renee Hartman, Joshua M. Greene
RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf....
