Probing the Parsha by Nathan Aviezer
On Shabbat and festivals, it is a universal practice in the Jewish world to read the weekly Torah portion – the parsha. There are many books that deal with the weekly parsha, but one...
Category: New Books
Our Medieval City!: The First Jewish Community in Vienna
Editors: Domagoj Akrap, Astrid Peterle, Adina Seeger, Danielle Spera Further Contributors: Nora Berend, Mika Boros, Eveline Brugger, Brigitte Dalinger, Petr Elbel, Alexandra Hylla, Thomas Kuhtreiber, Anna Lidor-Osprian, Klaus Lohrmann, Klaus Mitchell, Simon Neuberg, Siegrid...
Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of by Helaine Becker
Illustrated by Kari Rust In this engaging and inspiring biography, a groundbreaking but relatively unknown woman finally gets her due as one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. Emmy Noether is...
Story of Our Lives: An Epic Quest for the Soul of our Tradition by Yaakov Klein
While on a journey, I told a story. Whoever heard it had a thought of repentance. WITH THESE TIMELESS words, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov zya introduced The Lost Princess, the story that would ultimately...
Under The Stretcher by Max Levin
Under the Stretcher takes you into the 2014 “Operation Protective Edge,” the latest of the Gaza-Israeli conflicts, through the eyes of Max Levin, an American-born Israeli soldier who immigrated in 2012 to join the...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home by Alexander Wolff
A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff A literary gem researched over a...
The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust by Rosie Whitehouse
One summer’s night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches–now they...
The Interactive Family Parashah Book by Rabbi Daniel Fine
Shabbos is the most special day of the week, and our Shabbos table should be special too. Engaging our family during the Shabbos meals is a key part of a successful and enjoyable Shabbos....
Stella by Takis Würger
Translator: Liesl Schillinger In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming an artist. At a life drawing class, he is hypnotized by the...
Spilt Milk by Courtney Zoffness
What role does a mother play in raising thoughtful, generous children? In her literary debut, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past—biologically, culturally, spiritually—and what we pass on to...
