On the Wings of Faith by Eli Fishman
Rabbi Eli Fishman began writing about his experiences in the Shoah over sixty years ago, soon after his liberation from Dachau. Mindful of the fact that his hometown of Rachov, Poland, was totally destroyed...
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Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel by Dov Waxman
Trouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support Israel and...
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz by Max Eisen
In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir by Canadian survivor More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a...
Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930 by Zvi Y. Gitelman
In order to “Bolshevize” the Jewish population, the Soviets created within the Party a number of special Jewish Sections. Charged with the task of integrating the largely hostile or indifferent Jews into the new...
Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual
Editors: Jeffers Engelhardt, Philip Bohlman Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world....
One Bridge to Life by William Samelson
In 1939, Samelson, now a professor at Trinity University (Tex.), was an 11-year old violin prodigy living in Poland. A year later, he had a secret bar mitzvah in a Nazi labor camp. His...
Revelation and Authority by Benjamin D. Sommer: Is There Such a Thing as Written Torah?
Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award–Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship At once a study of biblical theology and modern Jewish thought, this volume describes...
Your Story, Our Sipur: Discovering Our Common Threads: Photography and Stories by Sam E. Litvin
Our Story Book explains through photographs and stories how/why Jewish culture changed the world. Our Jewish culture, although small in number (14 million today) impacted the world in politics, science, art and religion. Photographer...
Kaplan’s Quest by Richard Steinitz
The disappearance of his great-uncle Samuel during World War II has shaped the life of the young university lecturer, Shmulik Kaplan. As part of his Master’s Thesis on the history of German between the...
List Fun: Cybils Books of Jewish Interest
Via email I am pleased to announce that my guest post on the Cybils blog has been published, “Cybils Books of Jewish Interest,” at http://www.cybils.com/2016/05/list-fun-cybils-books-of-jewish-interest.html. The Cybils are the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’...
