Odessa, Odessa by Barbara Artson
Odessa, Odessa follows the fates of two sons from a proud lineage of rabbis and cantors in a shtetl near the Black Sea in western Russia. As two brothers emigrate out of Russia to...
Category: New Books
The Horror of the Holocaust by Claire Throp
Explore the history of the Holocaust, from causes and effects to what made this period of history so deadly.
What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
After losing her family and everything she knew in the Nazi concentration camps, Gerta is finally liberated, only to find herself completely alone. Without her Papa, her music, or even her true identity, she...
Lake Effect Days by Philip Sultz
At the center of the group was Arnie. He might have been selling real estate for the time being, but he always had his eye on the next thing—Christmas tree farming, perhaps, or uranium...
Yossi and Laibel’s Shabbos Surprise by Dina Rosenfeld
It’s never too early to begin reading aloud to a child and nurturing a love of books. Based on the classic Peanut Butter and Jelly for Shabbos, this sturdy, take-along board book will introduce...
The Princess Dolls by Ellen Schwartz
Illustrator: Mariko Ando Vancouver, 1942. When best friends Esther and Michiko spot beautiful Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret dolls, in vogue at the time, in the local toy-store window, they long to get the...
Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future: 200 Years of Wissenschaft Des Judentums
Editors: Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-freudenthal, Guy Miron From its modest beginnings in 1818 Berlin, Wissenschaft des Judentums has burgeoned into a scholarly discipline pursued by a vast cadre of scholars. Now constituting a global...
Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law by Chaim N. Saiman
How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question―and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everything Though typically translated as “Jewish law,” the term halakhah is not...
The Hunt by Miriam Walfish
Book 1 in The Chronicles of Meir ben Yaakov Meir ben Yaakov is sent away from his home in Paris, armed only with a small sack of belongings and his parents’ tearful blessings. His...
Hearts and Minds: Israel and the Battle for Public Opinion by Nachman Shai
Small-scale wars, terrorism, and guerilla warfare, each characterized by low-intensity violence are the new global reality in the twenty-first century. States in general, and liberal democratic states in particular, are compelled to develop a...
