New Jewish Books
The fourth book in the engaging “Engineer Ari” series about a Yishuv-era train engineer whose various adventures entertain young children while also teaching about Jewish holidays. The first book of the series, “Engineer Ari...
by Reuven Snir In Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?: Interpellation, Exclusion, and Inessential Solidarities, Professor Reuven Snir, Dean of Humanities at Haifa University, presents a new approach to the study of Arab-Jewish identity and the...
A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents’ mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences In 1948, after surviving World War II by...
Edited by Brian Ogren Time and eternity are concepts that have occupied an important place within Jewish mystical thought. This present volume gives pride of place to these concepts, and is one of the...
Katja Goldman, Judy Bernstein Bunzl, Lisa Rotmil “Food, family, and community have always been at the center of our lives,” write the authors of The Community Table. The three authors—all dedicated cooks, mothers, working...
Reviewed by Amy Weiss, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA In this revised edition of Beyond Breaking the Glass, Nancy Wiener updates her informative guide to Jewish weddings to reflect changes that have occurred...
The oral histories in Arlene Alda’s Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today....
For award-winning author and educator Dr. Erica Brown, one should approach the Passover Seder with imagination as well as intellect. The Seder’s grab-bag of esoteric rabbinic texts, prayers, symbolic foods, and strange farm-animal songs...
Filled with the flavors of Italy, Provence, North Africa, Asia, California, and Israel, these original, easy-to-prepare recipes take kosher dining to a new, contemporary level of sophistication. With more than two decades of professional...
For 7-13 years old children who love Zombies, and are bored from cutie tales! When there are Zombies in the plot, it’s just gets better! 20 Chapters on the Jewish people who were slaves...
