The Sunlit Night by Rebecca Dinerstein
Four unlikely foreigners gather for a funeral at the top of the world, reciting the Jewish Mourner’s Kadish under the midnight sun of the Norwegian Sea. In an archipelago above the Arctic Circle, Frances...
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Halakhic Realities: Collected Essays on Brain Death
edited by Zev Farber Maggid Books – International Rabbinic Fellowship The essays, written by rabbis, ethicists and physicians, have some overlap, but surprisingly they manage to approach the issue from new and different angles....
Modern Hebrew: The Past and Future of a Revitalized Language by Norman Berdichevsky
This book is addressed to general audience and does not require any previous knowledge of the language. It enables new students and those interested in Israeli events and culture, an appreciation of the achievements,...
Run You Down by Julia Dahl
Aviva Kagan was a just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a smiling college boy from Florida-and then disappeared. Twenty-three years later, the child she...
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 by Joshua D. Zimmerman
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 examines one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior of the Polish Underground – the resistance organization loyal to...
Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker by Julian Voloj
Claudia Ahlering (Illustrator), Jeff Chang (Introduction) An engrossing and counter view of one of the most dangerous elements of American urban history, this graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx...
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for...
The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews by Patrick Desbois and Paul A. Shapiro
In this heart-wrenching book, Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology,...
Jewish İstanbul – A Collection of Memoirs and Illustrations by Roz Kohen
Estambol Djudyo – Una Koleksyon de Rekuerdos i İlustrasyones Jewish İstanbul is about the folkloric culture of its Jews and their language that survived over five centuries within the perimeters of the multicultural city...
Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories by Jerome Charyn
Brooklyn is dead. Long live the Bronx! In Bitter Bronx, Jerome Charyn returns to his roots and examines the oft-overlooked borough in this new collection. Charyn depicts a world before and after modern urban...
