The Last Jews in Berlin by Leonard Gross
(Now on Kindle) When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, approximately one hundred sixty thousand Jews called Berlin home. By 1943 less than five thousand remained in the nation’s capital, the epicenter of...
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The Vision of Eden: Animal Welfare and Vegetarianism in Jewish Law and Mysticism by David Sears
The Vision of Eden is a source-book of Judaic texts that draws upon a wide range of both Talmudic and Kabbalistic teachings, with a special focus on the issues of animal welfare and vegetarianism....
Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900 by Tim Bonyhady
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed...
A Hidden Affair by Pam Jenoff
The book at Amazon and on Kindle This is Pam Jenoff’s fourth novel and although it is a continuation of the third, Almost Home, it stands alone. Jordan Weiss suddenly resigns from her position...
Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition by Marni Davis
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Jewish identity is the great theme of American Jewish historiography, and Marni Davis’s engrossing and well-written book belongs to this genre. It originated as a doctoral dissertation...
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice
Editors: Elliot N. Dorff & Danya Ruttenberg The book at Amazon Studies have shown that young generations of Jews place high value on social change as part of their Jewish identity. They personally participate...
Interview with a Jewish Vampire by Erica Manfred
The book at Amazon and on Kindle The author describes her book as “what would happen if Anne Rice and Mel Brooks had gotten drunk one night at Grossingers.” Filled with knowing winks to...
A Kosher Christmas: ‘Tis the Season to be Jewish by Joshua Eli Plaut
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Christmas is not everybody’s favorite holiday. Historically, Jews in America, whether participating in or refraining from recognizing Christmas, have devised a multitude of unique strategies to respond...
A Yellow Journalist by Miriam Michelson
Excerpt from an article by Karen E. H. Skinazi and Lori Harrison-Kahan Over a century before Dahl [author of Invisible City], another Jewish writer turned her own sensational experiences as a newspaperwoman into a...
Rivka’s First Thanksgiving by Elsa Okon Rael
The book at Amazon More than anything, Rivka wants to celebrate Thanksgiving. She has learned all about the holiday in school and knows her family has a lot to be thankful for in America....
