Nuri and the Whale by Ronit Chacham
Illustrator: Moran Yogev Every day young Nuri makes his way to the sea shore to eat some bread and throw a piece into the waves. He does so because his father told him to...
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Holocaust Literature and Representation: Their Lives, Our Words
Editors: Phyllis Lassner, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Series Editor: Kitty Millet Each scholar working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation has a story to tell. Not only the scholarly story of the work...
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown...
Virtual Holocaust Memory by Matthew Boswell, Antony Rowland
The Holocaust was the defining cataclysm of modernity. Now, more than three quarters of a century later, the immersive, interactive technologies of the digital age are dramatically refashioning our memory of that genocide. Virtual...
The Night Travelers by Armando Lucas Correa
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling...
Jewish Culture between Canon and Heresy by David Biale
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These pieces, written between 1974...
By the Rivers of Babylon by Mary Glickman
On a sultry South Carolina island, sunlight teases out the darkest secrets of the heart, in this novel from the author of An Undisturbed Peace. Joe and Abigail Becker, a Jewish couple from Boston,...
Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace by John D. Hosler
The first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth century The history of Jerusalem is one of conflict, faith, and empire. Few cities have been attacked as...
Modern Judaica: Today’s Makers, Today’s Sacred Objects by Jim Cohen
For anyone with an interest in Judaica and sacred objects, this book presents some of the most outstanding examples of contemporary Judaica—sacred Jewish objects—that have been created over the last 30+ years. Fifty-three makers...
The Hyena Murders by Ellen Frankel
A murder plot seeded in the wild mountains of Ethiopia bears its poison fruit years later in modern Jerusalem as a serial killer targets a prominent Beta Israel family. Confronting racial politics, police corruption,...
