The Sweetest Jewish Mango by Winifred Hament
A journey from death to life, from sadness to joy, being poor in the spirit to being rich in my soul. I’ve gone to great lengths to find the truth. I’ve opened many doors...
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My Hands Make the World by Amalia Hoffman
Night and day, land and sea, birds and animals . . . it’s amazing what these hands can make! Through handprints, finger paints, and child-friendly language, this book retells the ancient story of Creation...
The Struggle for Utopia by Dr. Arnold Slyper
A History of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Messianism With broad scholarship and precise communication skills, Dr. Arnold Slyper offers a glimmer of hope within the darkness of postmodernism. This book tells the epic story...
A Tailor in Auschwitz by David van Turnhout, Dirk Verhofstadt
David Van Turnhout and Dirk Verhofstadt traced the story of David’s Jewish grandfather, Ide Leib Kartuz. Fleeing from antisemitism and violence, he came to Antwerp in 1929 and set up business as a tailor....
The Book of Elsie by Joanne Levy
Elsie Rose-Miller loves celebrating the Purim holiday and can’t wait for the annual costume party at her local synagogue. Elsie plans to dress up as the fierce and smart Queen Esther, who saved all...
Before the Holocaust by Hermann Beck
Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover As the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar. While previous historical research assumed...
So They Remember by Maksim Goldenshteyn
A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust...
No Religion without Idolatry by Gideon Freudenthal
Mendelssohn’s Jewish Enlightenment Moses Mendelssohn (1725–1786) is considered the foremost representative of Jewish Enlightenment. In No Religion without Idolatry, Gideon Freudenthal offers a novel interpretation of Mendelssohn’s general philosophy and discusses for the first...
From a Distant Relation by Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky
Editor and translator: James Adam Redfield In his short life (1865–1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar...
The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power by Pnina Lahav
A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898–1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on...
