Podcast: PJ Our Way
The newest episode of The Book of Life Podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Rabinowitz, features an interview with the director of PJ Our Way, Catriella Freedman. PJ Our Way, an outgrowth of PJ Library,...
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Jewish Spiritual Growth by Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
Translator Yaacov David Shulman Jewish Spiritual Growth is a translation into English of one of the great Jewish spiritual treasures of the twentieth century, which was miraculously rescued after the Holocaust. This book was...
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved classic From the Mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long...
Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables & Problems by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
A son receives an inheritance from his father and tries to dispose of it before it destroys him. Inherited Disorders tells this elemental story in over 100 hilarious, witty variations. Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s Inherited...
Almost a Minyan by Lori S. Kline
How can our sacred institutions preserve tradition while retaining the flexibility to accommodate modern life? And how do you fold that theme into a lively kids’ book? Almost a Minyan, the latest offering from...
New header image for our social media channels (May 2017)
Using the covers of books I mentioned on this site in May 2017 I crated a new image for our social media channels. (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) :
Books posted in January-May 2017
Here is the list of the 79 books that I posted on this site Between January and May 2017 : The 28th of Iyar – 50th Anniversary Edition by Rabbi Emanuel Feldman Akim Volynsky;...
The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry by Yosef Kaplan and Dan Michman
In The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry an international group of scholars examines aspects of religious belief and practice of pre-emancipation Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Amsterdam, Curaçao and Surinam, ceremonial dimensions, artistic representations of...
Israel Celebrates: Jewish Holidays and Civic Culture in Israel by Hizky Shoham
Israel Celebrates is about the intersection where Israeli inventiveness and Jewish tradition meet: the holidays. It employs the anthropological history of four Jewish holidays as celebrated in Israel in order to track the naturalization...
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian
‘Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian’s magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years’ – Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the Year A prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for...
