The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski
More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Their saga can now...
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Cold Florida: A hard-boiled mystery set in Florida (A Foggy Moskowitz Mystery) by Phillip DePoy
Introducing former car thief and amateur sleuth Foggy Moskowitz in the first of a brand-new noir mystery series. It’s 1974. Foggy Moskowitz, a Jewish car thief on the run from the Brooklyn authorities, ends...
Siddur Lev Shalem for Shabbat & Festivals
Siddur Lev Shalem for Shabbat and Festivals features a four column format, new translations in contemporary language, a commentary providing historical context as well as kavanot, poetry and prose that expand and enrich our...
The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy: Fossoli di Carpi, 1942-1952 by Alexis Herr
This study of the Fossoli di Carpi camp, from its origins to its postwar functions, exposes not only the pattern of silence that facilitated mass murder, but also the religious, national, and international political...
Event: “New Directions in Jewish Music”
A lecture by Dr. Tamar Barzel, Visiting Curator, Fales Library-Downtown Collection, New York University. Live Performance by Grammy-nominated composer and pianist Uri Caine Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 7pm. Center for Jewish History 15...
Sephirot by Gordon Bonnet
Duncan Kyle is an ordinary twenty-something whose simple life of sports, job, and girlfriend comes to a crashing halt late one night when he falls through the floor of his apartment. He finds himself...
A None’s Story: Searching for Meaning Inside Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam by Corinna Nicolaou
The rising population known as “nones” for its members’ lack of religious affiliation is changing American society, politics, and culture. Many nones believe in God and even visit places of worship, but they do...
Memory Work: The Second Generation by Nina Fischer
Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests – Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows...
The Best Bar and Bat Mitzvah-Themed books for young adults
From the Jewish Journal While there are many excellent young adult novels with Jewish characters, some of which mention a bar or bat mitzvah, there are probably fewer than a dozen that tackle the...
Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City by Adina Hoffman
A remarkable view of one of the world’s most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman’s Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects...
