Inside the Bubble by Noga Niv
In Inside the Bubble, a captivating tale of high-tech and female friendship, Noga Niv takes us to Silicon Valley at the turn of the millennium, when the collapse of the dot-com bubble had produced...
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Jewish Pittsburgh (Images of America) by Barbara Burstin
By the mid-19th century, Jews from German lands began settling in Pittsburgh, later to be followed by Jews from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires and Romania. They founded businesses and organizations such as Giant...
The Killing Rituals: Espionage & Terrorism Thriller by Nir Zamir
With gripping suspense and riveting action “The Killing Rituals” is an intense political thriller that sets the covert war against international terrorism – and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – in a context of the super-powers’...
Chief Rabbi Hertz: The Wars of the Lord by Derek Taylor
Jonathan Sacks (Introduction) Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946), perhaps Britain’s greatest Chief Rabbi, led his community through two World Wars and was instrumental in the rescue of Jewish refugees from Nazism. He published...
Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky
Edited by Glenn Dynner and François Guesnet Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism,...
Kosher Movies: A Film Critic Discovers Life Lessons at the Cinema by Herbert J. Cohen
You wouldn’t expect an Orthodox rabbi to be a lover of modern cinema, but Rabbi Herbert J. Cohen has been a fan of movies for as long as he can remember. Indeed, he believes...
The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience
Festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday Edited by Michael Zank and Ingrid Anderson In this tribute to Steven T. Katz on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Michael...
Broken on the inside: The War never ended by Simon Hammelburg
Based on 1200 interviews with Holocaust survivors and their children transcribed during telephone calls he received in a 1992 campaign to help American Jews and other individuals reclaiming property they had lost during the...
Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist by Pierre Birnbaum
Léon Blum (1872–1950), France’s prime minister three times, socialist activist, and courageous opponent of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, profoundly altered French society. It is Blum who is responsible for France’s forty-hour week and its...
History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy by Eliezer Schweid
Volume II: The Birth of Jewish Historical Studies and the Modern Jewish Religious Movements Translated and Annotated by Leonard Levin The culmination of Eliezer Schweid’s life-work as a Jewish intellectual historian, this five-volume work...
