Why Israel (and its Future) Matters by John L. Rosove
Letters of a Liberal Rabbi To His Children and the Millennial Generation Presented in the form of letters from a rabbi to his sons, Why Israel (and its Future) Matters) makes the case to...
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Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature
Edited By Nicholas Peter Legh Allen, Pierre J. Jordaan, József Zsengellér This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers...
Esther in America by Stuart Halpern
The Book of Esther has inspired and impacted the American project since its very inception. Rabbis and ethicists, abolitionists and artists, preachers and presidents, have understood the text to speak to their moment. It...
The Berlin Shadow by Jonathan Lichtenstein
Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein’s father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died after Kristallnacht, and, upon...
The Book of Jonah: A Social Justice Commentary by Shmuly Yanklowitz
The Book of Jonah is a unique text in the Jewish canon. Among the shortest books in the Bible, it is also one of the most mysterious and morally ambiguous. Who is this prophet running...
Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape by David Tollerton
Politics, Sacrality, And Diversity British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence since the 1990s. This monograph provides the first substantial discussion of the interface between public Holocaust memory in contemporary Britain and...
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to...
Postcards from Auschwitz by Daniel P. Reynolds
Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorialsEach year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists...
Jewish Bible Translations by Leonard Greenspoon
Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress Jewish Bible Translations is the first book to examine Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. It is an overdue corrective of an important story that has...
Joseph Perl’s Revealer Of Secrets: The First Hebrew Novel; Editor: Dov Taylor
The dawning of the nineteenth century found the Jews of Eastern Europe torn between the forces of progress and reaction as they took their first tentative steps toward the modern world. In a war...
