A Persian Passover by Etan Basseri
Illustrator: Rashin Kheiriyeh Ezra and Roza are helping to prepare for their Passover celebration. Ezra is proud to be in charge of bringing his family’s flour to the synagogue to be baked into matzah...
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Anna and Dr Helmy by Ronen Steinke
How an Arab Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler’s Berlin The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the...
Enchanted Dulcinea by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Translator, Introduction: Rebecca Marquis Jewish Women in the AmericasEnglish and Spanish Edition In this English translation of the 1993 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize winner Dulcinea encantada (1992) by Mexican author Angelina...
The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts: A Millennium by lodie Attia, Antony Perrot (Editors)
In The Hebrew Bible: A Millennium, scholars from different fields and dealing with different material sources are trying to consider the Hebrew Bible as a whole. The development of new databases and other technological...
Shmuel’s Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father by Jason Sommer
A moving memoir of a son’s relationship with his survivor father and of their Eastern European journey through a family history of incalculable loss. Jason Sommer’s father, Jay, is ninety-eight years old and losing...
The Story of The Satmar Rebbe by Sarah Feldbrand
Learning From Our Leaders Rav Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe, was a holy person even as a child. As he grew, his greatness in Torah and his careful observance of all the mitzvos became...
The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is...
Salo Baron by Rebecca Kobrin (Editor)
The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions―marking a turning point in the...
Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons by Matt Reingold
Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis examines the ways in which the work of Israeli political...
On Sunny Days We Sang by Jeannette Grunhaus de Gelman
A Holocaust Story of Survival and Resilience When the Germans march into their little Polish shtetl at the start of World War II, the Jews of Wlodawa see their lives abruptly torn apart. For...
