The Dream by H. E. Kline
In Honor of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz … The Dream Special Release … is there a way for past lives or past generations to return? Is there a parallel universe?...
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New header image for our social media channels (June 2015)
Using the covers of books I mentioned on this site in May 2015 I crated a new image for our social media channels. (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) :
The Pinch by Steve Stern
It’s the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and...
Hasidism Incarnate by Shaul Maggid
Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tradition. Ironically...
Books posted in May 2015
Here is the list of books that made it here during the month of May 2015: 33 Days: A Memoir by Leon Werth 500 Years in the Making: People of the Book by Akiva Aaronson...
Honeydew: Stories by Edith Pearlman
Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent...
Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism: Secrets of “The Guide for the Perplexed” by Micah Goodman
A publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in Israel, the original Hebrew edition of Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism has been called the most successful book ever published...
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of...
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen
Anya recounts three Soviet-Jewish generations and their complex relationship with totalitarian power and Jewish identity. We meet her great-grandmother Maria who ran a Jewish home canteen out of her kitchen and lost her baby...
The Non-Israelite Nations in the Book of the Twelve by Daniel C. Timmer
Thematic Coherence and the Diachronic-Synchronic Relationship in the Minor Prophets In The Non-Israelite Nations in the Book of the Twelve Daniel Timmer offers the first comprehensive survey of the ‘nations’ in the Minor Prophets....
