Isaac’s Beacon by David L. Robbins
In the tradition of epic novels like Exodus and Cast a Giant Shadow, Isaac’s Beacon is a sweeping historical tale based on the real events of Israel’s founding—bringing alive the power and complexities of...
Category: New Books
Passionate Publishers: The Founders of the Black Star Photo Agency by Phoebe Kornfeld
Passionate Publishers traces the lives of the German Jewish refugee-émigré founders of the Black Star photo agency-Ernest Mayer, Kurt Safranski, and Kurt Kornfeld-whose expertise helped ignite a revolution in photojournalism. The first half of...
The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past by Liora R. Halperin
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture The Oldest Guard tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. Though they...
Perils of Wisdom: The Scriptural Solomon in Jewish Tradition by Sheila Keiter
Perils of Wisdom engages the biblical Solomon narrative that appears in the Book of Kings and its reception by Jewish texts from scriptural sources through the traditional commentaries of the Middle Ages. By systematically...
Love and Latkes by Stacey Agdern
Friendships and Festivals Book 3 Batya Averman is ecstatic when a latke fry-off committee chooses her as its web designer—until she learns the event is in Rivertown, New York, the hometown she fled years...
Victims, Villains and Women of Valor: Women in the Era of the Biblical Judges by Shera Aranoff Tuchman
The book of Judges depicts a bleak period in the history of the Israelites, characterized by a recurrent cycle of sin, servitude, repentance, and temporary redemption as the Israelites repeatedly fall into the pagan...
Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village by Mimi Schwartz
Mimi Schwartz’s father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he’d tell her, “We all got along.” In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad...
The Just: How Six Unlikely Heroes Saved Thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken
Translator: David McKay The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. Jan Zwartendijk...
Hanukkah (Traditions & Celebrations) by Jessica Server
Hanukkah is about celebrating! Often called the Festival of Lights, the eight-day celebration honors a miracle that happened long ago. During Hanukkah, people light the menorah. They sing songs. They gather with family and...
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe by Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe is a topic laced by prejudice on one hand and apologetics on the other. Beginning in the Middle Ages, Jews were often portrayed as criminals driven by greed....
