Let’s Be Friends by Edwin Radin
Illustrator: Clair Fink One snowy day in Brooklyn, James and Sally discover that they have new neighbors next door-a girl named Tovah and a boy named Esair. When James and Sally spy a menorah...
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A Collage of Customs by Mark Podwal
In A Collage of Customs, Mark Podwal’s imaginative and inventive interpretations of woodcuts from a 16th-century Sefer Minhagim (Book of Customs) allow readers of this volume to see these historic images in a new...
Fighter, Worker, and Family Man by Sebastian Huebel
German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941 German and European Studies When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life....
Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome by Lindsay Powell
Foreword: Eric H. Cline In AD 132 began the bloody struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation. One was Hadrian, the cosmopolitan ruler of the vast Roman Empire, then at...
The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies
Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the...
Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Modern Orthodoxy by Haym Soloveitchik
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization The essay that forms the core of this book is an attempt to understand the developments that have occurred in Orthodox Jewry in America in the last seventy...
Yitzy the Youngest Learns About Gam Zu Letova by Sarah Max
Illustrator: Avi Katz Yitzy gets sick before a birthday party and wonders how it could be a good thing. With the help of his family, he learns an important lesson on gam zu letova.
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II by Leah Garrett
The incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit—but whose story has gone untold until now June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has...
By the Grace of the Game by Dan Grunfeld
The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream Foreword: Ray Allen When Lily and Alex entered a packed gymnasium in Queens, New York in 1972, they barely recognized their son. The boy...
The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance by Naomi M. Jackson, Rebecca Pappas, Toni Shapiro-Phim (Editors)
Responding to recent evolutions in the fields of dance and religious and secular studies, The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance documents and celebrates the significant impact of Jewish identity on a variety of...
