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And that is the point of Ron Wolfson’s game changing book: that connecting Jews to synagogues, Jewish organizations, and to Judaism itself is all about relationships (or what I have called connectedness in my...
• One of the only known wartime diaries written by an Orthodox Jew • This diary was crafted as a memoir — complete with chapter titles and a table of contents — by its...
The October Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted Erika Dreifus at Fig Tree Books at https://figtreebooks.net/step-right-up-to-the-jewish-book-carnival/. You’ll find links to Jewish book news,...
Stolen Legacy is a non-fiction historical narrative centered on a Jewish family’s legal battle to reclaim ownership of a building stolen by the Nazis in the 1930s. The building at Krausenstrasse 17/18 in Berlin...
EUROPEAN DIVISION AND THE HEBREW LANGUAGE TABLE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRESENT WRITING THE HOLOCAUST Discussions with Anthony Pitch & Nancy Geise Moderated by Michlean Amir of the USMHM Monday November 9 at...
Seventy years ago Joe Rubinstein walked out of a Nazi concentration camp. Until now, his story has been hidden from the world. Shortly before dawn on a frigid morning in Radom, Poland, German soldiers...
The legendary Akiva ben Yosef has fascinated Jews for centuries. One of and arguably the most important of the Tannaim, or early Jewish sages, Akiva lived during a crucial era in the development of...
For much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli was an iconic institution in both Jewish and American life. Pastrami on Rye is a full-length history of the New York Jewish deli....
Please join AJL for a book discussion about the adventurous Jewish historical novel THE WAYWARD MOON by Janice Weizman on Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central/6pm Pacific Time via call-in show. We’ll...
The year is 854. Rahel, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, is preparing to meet her fiance for the first time. She cannot know that even as she stands observing herself in the mirror, an enemy...
