The Collaborator by Diane Armstrong
Is he a hero or a traitor? Based on astonishing true events set in the darkest days of World War II in Budapest, this is an enthralling story of heroism, vengeance, passion, and betrayal....
Category: New Books
Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles by Rivvy Neshama
ON A DARK WINTER NIGHT with little to do, Rivvy Neshama took a “Find Your Highest Purpose” quiz. And the funny thing was, she found it: to live a sacred life. Problem was, she...
The Jewish Wedding: A Guide to the Rituals and Traditions of the Wedding Ceremony by Dovber Pinson
This guide is based on the teachings of Torah,Talmud, Medrash, Zohar, Halacha, Poskim, Kabbalah and Chassidus, and writings culled from the seven Chabad Rebbes. By quoting their teachings, we actively draw down the ‘presence’...
The Secret Music at Tordesillas by Marjorie Sandor
It is April, 1555, and Juana I of Castile, the Spanish queen known as “la loca,” has died after forty-seven years in forced seclusion at Tordesillas. Her last musician, Juan de Granada, refuses to...
And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain by Elisabeth Asbrink
Translator: Saskia Vogel Winner of the August Prize, the story of the complicated long-distance relationship between a Jewish child and his forlorn Viennese parents after he was sent to Sweden in 1939, and the...
Levinas and the Torah: A Phenomenological Approach by Richard I. Sugarman
The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906–95) was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book interprets the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Levinas’s religious philosophy. Richard I. Sugarman...
New Issue of Women in Judaism
We are delighted to announce the electronic publication of the new issue of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal. The journal can be accessed at http://www.womeninjudaism.org Founded in 1997, the journal is the first multidisciplinary-refereed e-journal...
The King of Chicago: Memories of My Father by Daniel Friedman
The King of Chicago is the story of a father-son relationship as real and hugely loving as that in Philip Roth’s Patrimony. At its heart is a young son who tries furiously to heal his father...
Shuk: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking by Einat Admony, Janna Gur
With Shuk, home cooks everywhere can now inhale the fragrances and taste the flavors of the vivacious culinary mash-up that is today’s Israel. The book takes you deeper into this trending cuisine, through the combined...
The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World by Ran Abramitzky
How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually declined The kibbutz is a social experiment in collective living that challenges traditional economic theory. By sharing all income and...
