Orphan Number Eight by Kim van Alkemade
Orphan Number Eight tells the story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish...
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Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910–1991) was a member of an official team documenting the implementation of Nazi policies in the Lodz Ghetto. Covertly, he captured on film scores...
Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse by Avi Sagi & Yakir Englander
Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body...
The Language of Paradise by Barbara Klein Moss
The microcosm encased within a glass terrarium on the book cover for The Language of Paradise evokes the poignant contradictions of the story it contains: nurtured wilderness, love and estrangement, caged Arcadia, Art, Science,...
Bullets of Palestine by Howard Kaplan
Two agents. Two opposing sides. Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain...
The Sound of Our Steps by Ronit Matalon
Dalya Bilu, translator The Sound of Our Steps is an inventive novel of immigration and exile from Ronit Matalon, a major voice in contemporary Israeli fiction. In the beginning there was Lucette, who is...
Landscapes of Memory and Impunity: The Aftermath of the AMIA Bombing in Jewish Argentina
Edited by Annette Levine and Natasha Zaretsky Landscapes of Memory and Impunity chronicles the aftermath of the most significant terrorist attack in Argentina’s history—the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed eighty-five people, wounded hundreds, and...
The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp by James M. Deem
Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion. Damaged at the start of World War I, it fell into disrepair . . . until the Nazis...
This Is Not a Love Story by Judy Brown
This most certainly is a love story. It’s also a coming-of-age story, a family’s story, and a story of struggling through the unknown. Judy Brown’s memoir instills her own voice and past in Menuchah....
Menachem Kellner: Jewish Universalism
Edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes With an Introduction by James A. Diamond Menachem Kellner is an American-born scholar of Jewish philosophy, an educator, and a public intellectual who lives in Israel....
