The Seventh Handmaiden by Judith Pransky
Darya does not remember how she came to be a slave or who she was before she was bought by an army captain for his motherless daughter in the ancient Persian city of Susa....
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Curvy Girl’s Guide to Finding a Husband: A Jewish Romantic Comedy by Shelly Bell
No one said it would be easy… I never anticipated the most embarrassing moment of my life would resonate with so many people. I mean, what’s so special about a plus-sized woman drunkenly pouring...
Turning Point: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Confront Greek Philosophy by Jeff Bergner
The late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries were a turning point in the thought of the west. This was the age of Averroes, Maimonides and Aquinas, each of whom struggled to reconcile their respective...
Overcoming the Retributive Nature of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by Thomas L. Saaty, H. J. Zoffer, Luis G. Vargas, Amos Guiora This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to conflict solution focusing on a very specific type of conflict, retributive conflicts . It is...
Dispelling the Myth by Diana Hochman
Miri Nachum ends up in a foreign country searching for love and truth. But who she ends up, is a far cry from who she was when she started out. Is she a seeker...
Warsaw Ghetto Police by Katarzyna Person
The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of...
Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato by Yehuda Halper
Permitting and Forbidding Open Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and...
Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel by Katell Berthelot
How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the Torah Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria...
Why Is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family by Marisabina Russo
This graphic-novel debut from an acclaimed picture book creator is a powerfully moving memoir of the author’s experiences with family, religion, and coming of age in the aftermath of World War II, and the...
The Garden of Angels by David Hewson
At his beloved Nonno Paolo’s deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in...
