The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer
A captivating debut novel by Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light tells the true story of Vogue model turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, and her search to forge a new identity as an artist...
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Jewish Religious Architecture; From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism by Steven Fine
Jewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit. This volume stretches from the biblical Tabernacle to Roman Jerusalem, synagogues...
Someday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskin
Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is fifteen when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her younger sister, Naomi, to Shanghai, one of the few places that...
Eternity Now: Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady and Temporality by Wojciech Tworek
The Habad movement, formed in eighteenth-century Belarus, has developed into one of the most influential streams of Hasidic Judaism. Drawing on both mystical sermons and legal writings of its founder, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of...
Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture by Andrea Schatz
The contributions to this volume trace for the first time how the modern Jewish reception of Josephus, the ancient historian, who witnessed and described the destruction of the Second Temple, took shape within different...
Kabbalah books, my websites and me
I have a long history with books on Kabbalah and organizing them on the web. As I just reached a milestone in this process, let me share the timeline so far. 1984 – My...
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
He possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian...
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: Selected Stories by Bette Howland
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage restores to the literary canon an extraordinarily gifted writer, who was recognized as a major talent before all but disappearing from public view for decades, until nearly the end...
The Cyprus Detention Camps: The Essential Research Guide by Yitzhak Teutsch
Beginning in August 1946, stateless and visaless Jewsmost of them survivors of the Nazi death campswho sought to immigrate to the Land of Israel were intercepted by the Royal Navy and deported to the...
Secrets From the Lost Bible: Hidden Scriptures Found by Kenneth Hanson
In this trade paperback edition of the book (published in hardcover in 2004), Judaica scholar Kenneth Hanson, PhD uncovers the parallels within a collection of lost and suppressed sacred books (Kabbalah, apocrypha, Gnostic gospels,...
