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Meat Matters by Hagar Salamon

Meat Matters by Hagar Salamon

Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon...

The Road to Auschwitz by Walter Zapotoczny

The Road to Auschwitz by Walter Zapotoczny

The Deportation of the Slovak Jews by the Hlinka Guard The Holocaust began for the Slovak Jews in Autumn of 1938, when Slovakia became an autonomous region. Jewish property was confiscated and businesses liquidated...

The Rabbi and His Donkey by Susan Tarcov

The Rabbi and His Donkey by Susan Tarcov

Illustrator: Diana Renzina Hamor the donkey proudly takes Rabbi Moses Maimonides to the sultan’s palace every day, until he is replaced by a faster horse. Then the wise rabbi and the old donkey are...

Not So Shy by Noa Nimrodi

Not So Shy by Noa Nimrodi

Twelve-year-old Shai hates everything about moving to America from Israel. She’s determined to come up with a plan that will get her back home. Maybe she can go back with her grandparents when they...

Grape, Again! by Gabriel Arquile­vich

Grape, Again! by Gabriel Arquile­vich

Good news! Principal Clarkson says Grape is ready for junior high. He doesn’t have to go to Riverwash, the school for troubled kids! But there’s also bad news. Grape’s best friend, Lou, has moved...

The Radical Isaac by Adi Mahalel

The Radical Isaac by Adi Mahalel

I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism Suny Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture Yiddish and Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz (1852-1915) was a major leader of Eastern European Jewry in the years...