Deviation by Luce D’Eramo
Translator: Anne Milano Appel First published in Italy in 1979, Luce D’Eramo’s Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation...
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The Fifth Question Haggadah by Rabbi Judah Gross
Why is this Haggadah different from other Haggadahs? The Fifth Questionis a unique Haggadah that is full of fascinating explanations and even more captivating questions. Rabbi Gross helps readers turn their Seder into an...
Journeys: An American Story by Andrew Tisch & Mary Skafidas
Every family has a story of how they arrived in America, whether it was a few months, years, decades, or centuries ago. Journeys: An American Story celebrates the vastness and variety of immigration tales...
Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library by Joshua Teplitsky
David Oppenheim (1664–1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are housed in the Bodleian Library at...
In This Hour; Heschel’s Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Foreword: Susannah Heschel Editor: Helen Plotkin Translators: Stephen Lehmann, Marion Faber In This Hour, edited and annotated by Helen Plotkin, is the first-ever publication in English of many writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel: his...
Mourning by Eduardo Halfon
Translators: Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory’s strands back...
Mysticism and Sacred Scripture by Steven T. Katz
This is the fourth volume in an influential series that presents a basic revaluation of the nature of mysticism. Each provides a collection of solicited papers by noted experts in the study of religion....
Pippa’s Passover Plate by Vivian Kirkfield
Illustrator: Jill Weber Pippa the Mouse has been working hard all day– cleaning her house, setting the table, cooking the meal. Everything looks great– but her special Seder plate is missing! Searching through her...
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s by Marc Dollinger
Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power–inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how,...
The Kabbalah The Essential Texts from the Zohar
Translator, Introduction: MacGregor Mathers Foreword: Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi “Companion for someone on a spiritual quest.” Introduction by MacGregor Mathers. Forward by ben Shimon Haleve. Includes notes. Chapters are: The Book of the Concealed...
