A Heart Just Like My Mother’s by Lela Nargi
Valeria Cis, illustrator Shy Anna doesn’t think she is anything like her outgoing, funny, clever mother. One day Anna sees a hungry man on the street and decides to find a way to help....
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George Eliot, Judaism And The Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism by S. Nurbhai and K. Newton
This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced all Eliot’s novels and not just her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda , and leaves the reader with a very different George Eliot from...
Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance by Wendy Lesser
Jerome Robbins (1918–1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young...
Welcome to the Seder: A Passover Haggadah for Everyone by Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky
Rinat Gilboa, illustrator Celebrate Passover with traditional seder texts, as well as poems, readings, and stories that acknowledge, value, and include the diverse backgrounds of seder participants today. Lead lively discussions on the universal...
From Torah to Kabbalah: A Basic Introduction to the Writings of Judaism by R. C. Musaph-Andriesse
Hitherto, no compact introduction has been available to the wealth ofJewish literature which came into being between the completion of the Jewish Bible, the Christian Old Testament, and the Middle Ages. Yet knowledge of...
Amsterdam’s Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century by Yda Schreuder
This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market...
The Magnificent Esme Wells by Adrienne Sharp
From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit...
The Essenes: Their History and Doctrines and The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development and Literature by Christian D. Ginsburg
Every investigation into the causes of the phenomena both of mind and matter was strictly forbidden, because the study of logic and metaphysics was regarded as injurious to devotional life.-from The EssenesThe Essenes introduces...
The Healthy Jewish Kitchen: Fresh, Contemporary Recipes for Every Occasion by Paula Shoyer
Too often, Jewish cookbooks still feature many recipes that lack whole grains and include too much salt, fat, sugar, and processed foods. But Paula Shoyer’s delicious take on Jewish cooking is different: she uses...
The Mighty Franks: A Memoir by Michael Frank
The family is uncommonly close: Michael’s childless Auntie Hankie and Uncle Irving, glamorous Hollywood screenwriters, are doubly related— Hankie is his father’s sister, and Irving is his mother’s brother. The two families live near...
