New Jewish Books
Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism In this book, Aubrey Buster demonstrates how methods adapted from cultural and social memory studies and the new formalism can illuminate the communal function of...
Translator: Beate Schützmann-Krebs From his boyhood in Krynki to partisan life in the Shalker Forest, to the ghetto, to the hunger, thirst, beatings and killings of Auschwitz and a grim succession of death camps,...
It’s 1830s England, and Culinarians—doyens who consult with society’s elite to create gorgeous food and confections—are the crème de la crème of high society. Helena Higgins, top of her class at the Royal Academy,...
Seminar Studies Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 to 1500 CE, a group often...
A Holocaust Memoir of Faith and Resilience Having broken her arm in a labor camp accident, 19-year-old Freda Perelmuter was convinced she would die at the hands of the Nazis unless she made a...
The saying “it’s all in your head” used to mean you are imagining things. But what if there was really something in your head that can influence how your brain works, including how you...
Why America Is Tipping From Hate To The Unthinkable And How We Can Stop It From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today—and...
Learn to count to ten by counting your favorite Jewish foods! Follow along and learn about the foods that you eat on holidays, and foods that are shared with your family. Traditional, and cultural...
The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian economy, especially in the oil industry. The entrepreneur...
This volume showcases a detailed look at the multifaceted attempts by Germany’s Nazi regime, together with its collaborators, to annihilate the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust. Several introductory essays, along with a rich...
