The Mensch by Alan M Weber
The World Needs a Mensch… But Stewie Blueschwitz will have to do. A somewhat nebbishy twelve year old, Stewie would have been a curious choice to be a novel’s protagonist, were it not for...
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Satisfaction Guaranteed by Micheline Maynard
How Zingerman’s Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community Certain businesses are legendary, exerting immense influence in their field. Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of those places. Over the years...
The Island of Extraordinary Captives by Simon Parker
A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo’s roundups in Berlin by way...
Attached: Connecting to Our Creator by Rabbi Yaakov Danishefsky, LCSW
A Jewish Psychological Approach In Attached, readers gain new insight and learn remarkable tools for developing a powerful and sustained connection with God. Through this profound and empowering approach, psychological principles and tools for...
The Sages: Character, Context and Creativity, Vol. V by Binyamin Lau
The Yeshivot of Babylonia and Israel Translator: Ilana Kurshan The Sages brings the world of the Talmud to life, revealing the stories of the people behind its pages. This fascinating multivolume series explores the...
Entangled Entertainers by Klaus Hödl
Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Austrian and Habsburg Studies Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was the product of the city’s Jewish and non-Jewish residents alike. While these...
Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn
For fans of The Nightingale and The Handmaid’s Tale, Cradles of the Reich uncovers a topic rarely explored in fiction: the Lebensborn project, a Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race. Through...
Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ Outtakes by Sue Vice
Holocaust Rescue and Resistance As we approach the end of the ‘era of the witness’, given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann’s archive of 220 hours of footage excluded...
Israel 201 by Joel Chasnoff, Benji Lovitt
Your Next-Level Guide to the Magic, Mystery, and Chaos of Life in the Holy Land Why do Israelis go bike riding on Yom Kippur? How did Jerusalem’s stray cat problem spur religious debate? And...
The 12th Commandment by Daniel Torday
Swirling with secrets and their consequences, exploring how revelation and redemption might be accessed through sin, and driven through twists and turns toward a startling conclusion, The 12th Commandment is a brilliant novel by...
