New Jewish Books
By Joel M. Hoffman The Bible Doesn’t Say That explores what the Bible meant before it was misinterpreted over the past 2,000 years. Acclaimed translator and biblical scholar Dr. Joel M. Hoffman walks the...
A chance encounter in a convent in Jerusalem’s Old City at the height of the Six-Day War reveals the thrilling biography of a young Jewish girl whose life circumstances brought her into the arms...
Edited by Shachar Pinsker Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman-who died in 2011 at the age of 101-was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and Annabelle (Chana) Farmelant-who is still living and...
The “Mapping Jewish Libraries” database brings together, on a searchable platform, information about Jewish libraries’ holdings in Europe. Researchers, students and other users can locate collections of Jewish materials to meet their needs. About...
A radiant debut collection of linked stories from a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, set in a German-occupied town in Poland, where tales of myth and folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion....
Edited by Gerd Bayer and Oleksandr Kobrynskyy Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to developments...
Session 1: July 24 – 29, 2016 Session 2: July 31 – August 7, 2016 “I’ve made invaluable friendships and connections, broadened my perspective on Jewish culture, and simply had an unforgettable experience.” –...
Hailed by Pope John Paul II and strongly influential in the United Nations adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Rights of the Child, this doctor/educator/author’s brilliant life, tragic ending in...
Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world—tens of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions. Nazi soldiers and civilians...
From Jewniverse In 1959, Soviet Jewish writer Vasily Grossman finished his magnum opus, the novel Life and Fate, an account of the Battle of Stalingrad during the Nazi invasion of the USSR and, simply,...
