Yiddish in Chicago: A History of Publishing
From The University of Chicago Library The Joseph Regenstein Library, Third Floor January 8 through March 20, 2016 When I publish a pretty book,” wrote L.M. Shteyn in 1929, “I believe it is with...
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The National Jewish Book Awards have been announced
Here is the list of winners. For finalists and further details check this page at the Jewish Book Council Jewish Book of the Year Everett Family Foundation Award Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle For Israel,...
The Parting of the Ways: How Esoteric Judaism and Christianity Influenced the Psychoanalytic Theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung by Richard Kradin
The Enlightenment signaled diminished popular reliance on the religious “cure of the soul,” and witnessed the emergence of psychoanalysis. From its inception, Freud’s psychoanalysis was accused of being a “Jewish science,” and he countered...
The White Piano by Uvi Poznansky
Coming back to his childhood home after years of absence, Ben is unprepared for the secret, which is now revealed to him: his mother, Natasha, who used to be a brilliant pianist, is losing...
Ghost Runners: An Olympic Dream Betrayed by Robert Rubenstein
Joshua Sellers and Bobby Gillman have made the American Olympic team, and are poised to run as Jewish-American athletes. But what happens to Joshua as he gets ready to run for an Olympic gold...
Why is Great Grandma So Sad? Discovering the Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child by Susan Heagy
Though this book is written for children ages 7 to 14, it is also intended for any age of people who have difficulty reading anything having to do with the Holocaust of WWII. This...
Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew: Entangled Lives in Morocco by Lawrence Rosen
In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years. Walking and talking with Haj Hamed Britel, Yaghnik Driss,...
The Atoning Dyad: The Two Goats of Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham by Andrei Orlov
The study explores the eschatological reinterpretation of the Yom Kippur ritual found in the Apocalypse of Abraham where the protagonist of the story, the patriarch Abraham, takes on the role of a celestial goat...
Gittle, A Girl of the Steppes by Estelle Rubin Brager
Gittle, A Girl of the Steppes was inspired by the handwritten memoirs of the author’s grandmother, a spirited Jewish woman who grew up in 19th century Ukraine, then controlled by Russia. Gittle is only...
Unspeakable Things by Kathleen Spivack
A wild, erotic novel—a daring debut—from the author author of Flying Inland, A History of Yearning, and With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and Others. A...
