Eli & Sruli and the Chinese Spy-Bot by Motty Heller
A Comics Book At a busy port in Ashdod, a crate tumbles off a shipping container and is accidentally sent to a toy-import company. Immediately after the crate is sent out, a man comes...
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Yad Vashem: The Challenge of Shaping a Holocaust Remembrance Site, 1942–1976 by Doron Bar
In this fascinating book, the planning and building of Yad Vashem, Israel’s central and most important institution for commemorating the Holocaust, merits an outstanding in-depth account. Following the development of Yad Vashem since 1942,...
JEW-ISH: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch by Jake Cohen
A brilliantly modern take on Jewish culinary traditions for a new generation of readers, from a bright new star in the culinary world. When you think of Jewish food, a few classics come to...
The Shemitta Sensation by Rabbi Binyamin Zimmerman
A Deeper Look into the Jewish Sabbatical Year Shemitta, the Jewish sabbatical year, is a sensational holiday year that is often overlooked and at times misunderstood. Shemitta calls for a once-in-seven-year ‘time out’ for...
Shoah and Torah by David Patterson
Routledge Studies in Second World War History Shoah and Torah systematically takes up the task of reading the Shoah through the lens of the Torah and the Torah through the lens of the Shoah....
Textual Criticism and the Ontology of Literature in Early Judaism by James Nati
An Analysis of the Serekh Ha-yaad Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism How did early Jewish scribes understand their own textual traditions? Using the Serekh ha-Ya?ad from Qumran as a test case, this...
The Welcome Chair by Rosemary Wells
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney Based in part on a 100-year-old family journal, Rosemary Wells brings to life a story that the diary’s fragile pages tell. It’s the story of a wooden rocking chair handmade in...
The Lamps of History by Michael Sandler
The Lamps of History wrestles with the ambiguities—and choices—between connection/alienation, renewal/decay, and faith/doubt. Its poems explore family histories and our stance toward them as they dim, frayed bonds with our grandparents’ traditions and beliefs,...
Titan of Tehran by Shahrzad Elghanayan
From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad – My Grandfather’s Life “Titan of Tehran,” a richly reported and elegantly rendered story, presents a compelling central character, historic sweep and moments that read...
Filled with Fire and Light by Elie Wiesel, Alan Rosen
Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World Here are magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis from the internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate,...
