The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz by Eti Elboim
Poland, 1944The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos inside....
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Monotheism and Narrative Development of the Divine Character in the Hebrew Bible by Mark McEntire
Elements in Religion and Monotheism The preeminent example of monotheism, the God of the Hebrew Bible, is the end product of a long process. The world from which this literature emerged was polytheistic. The...
Miryam’s Dance by Kerry Olitzky and Rachel Stock Spilker
Illustrator: John Baptist Tumuhaise Ugandan artist John Baptist Tumuhaise brings a Jewish Ugandan village to life in this story of a young girl who is distracted from her Shabbat preparation chores by the lure...
Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity by Simcha Gross
From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire...
Natalie and the Nazi Soldiers by Annette Gendler
The Story of a Hidden Child in France During the Holocaust Illustrator: Ste Johnson In 1944 in the German-occupied French countryside, a Jewish girl’s quest to save her favorite piglet takes a dangerous turn...
Jewish Universalisms: Mendelssohn, Cohen, and Humanity’s Highest Good by Jeremy Fogel
The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry An original and comprehensive comparison of the universalisms of two major modern Jewish philosophers. Any version of universalism relevant to a more attentive, pluralistic,...
Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
A daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from a returning Soft Skull author and Lambda Literary Award winner A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art...
The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought by Yaniv Feller
Ideas in Context Leo Baeck (1873–1956) was a rabbi, public intellectual, and the official leader of German Jewry during the Holocaust. The Jewish Imperial Imagination shows the myriad ways in which the German imperial...
Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics by Philip Slayton
What is Antisemitism? This startling exploration of the past and present of antisemitism starts with the surprisingly complex basics: what is a Jew? what is antisemitism? why does it happen? Author Philip Slayton looks...
Unacknowledged Kinships by Stefan Vogt, Derek Penslar, Arieh Saposnik (Editors)
Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry The first work to systematically investigate the potential for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the history...
