Almost Autumn by Marianne Kaurin
It’s October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteen-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he’d never ask her; she’s had a crush on...
Category: New Books
The Silly World of Chelm by Zalman Goldstein
After enjoying decades of acclaim in the pages of the acclaimed weekly newspaper, THE JEWISH PRESS, the lovable, side-splitting tales from the legendary town of Chelm have been collected in the world’s first encyclopedia...
Lights of Teshuvah by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook
Translator Yaacov David Shulman Lights of Teshuvah is a new translation of Orot Hateshuvah, the quintessential work of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), first Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land and one of the...
Meant to Be: A Memoir by Marvin Hier
In Meant to Be, Rabbi Hier recounts the events of his dazzling life: the miraculous birth and growth of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Moriah Films, and the Museums of Tolerance; the hunt for the...
Jewish Spiritual Growth by Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
Translator Yaacov David Shulman Jewish Spiritual Growth is a translation into English of one of the great Jewish spiritual treasures of the twentieth century, which was miraculously rescued after the Holocaust. This book was...
Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables & Problems by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
A son receives an inheritance from his father and tries to dispose of it before it destroys him. Inherited Disorders tells this elemental story in over 100 hilarious, witty variations. Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s Inherited...
Almost a Minyan by Lori S. Kline
How can our sacred institutions preserve tradition while retaining the flexibility to accommodate modern life? And how do you fold that theme into a lively kids’ book? Almost a Minyan, the latest offering from...
The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry by Yosef Kaplan and Dan Michman
In The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry an international group of scholars examines aspects of religious belief and practice of pre-emancipation Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Amsterdam, Curaçao and Surinam, ceremonial dimensions, artistic representations of...
Israel Celebrates: Jewish Holidays and Civic Culture in Israel by Hizky Shoham
Israel Celebrates is about the intersection where Israeli inventiveness and Jewish tradition meet: the holidays. It employs the anthropological history of four Jewish holidays as celebrated in Israel in order to track the naturalization...
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian
‘Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian’s magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years’ – Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the Year A prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for...
