The Last Jews in Berlin by Leonard Gross
(Now on Kindle) When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, approximately one hundred sixty thousand Jews called Berlin home. By 1943 less than five thousand remained in the nation’s capital, the epicenter of...
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Lights along the Path: Jewish Folklore Through The Grades by Rebecca Schacht
A unique graded collection of thirty-eight stories drawn from ancient Jewish Talmudic and Midrash sources, retold for children ages four to twelve. The stories range from the familiar to the obscure, and have been...
The Vision of Eden: Animal Welfare and Vegetarianism in Jewish Law and Mysticism by David Sears
The Vision of Eden is a source-book of Judaic texts that draws upon a wide range of both Talmudic and Kabbalistic teachings, with a special focus on the issues of animal welfare and vegetarianism....
A Taste of Hebrew for English Speaking Kids: The Collection (Picture Books for Children)
Sarah Mazor (Author), Yael Rosenberg (Author), Benny Rahdiana (Illustrator) 1. Hebrew Alphabet: — Connect with ISRAEL and the BIBLE – Learn the HEBREW ALPHABET. This first book in our “A Taste of Hebrew for...
2015 Sydney Taylor Book Awards
Jim Aylesworth and Barbara McClintock, author and illustrator of My Grandfather’s Coat, Loic Dauvillier, Marc Lizano and Greg Salsedo, authors and illustrators of Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust, and Donna Jo Napoli,...
Shalom: A Congregational Guide to Jewish Meditation by Rabbi Dr. Leslie Schotz
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Shalom: A Congregational Guide to Jewish Meditation includes Jewish Meditation as a Heritage, Meditation: What Makes it Jewish? , and Educating the Congregation about Jewish Meditation. This...
Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs by Manny Steinberg
This remarkable true story chronicles the experiences of Mendel Steinberg as a young man in war-torn Poland. Forced from his home, he and his family were sent to concentration camps in Poland and Germany...
Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900 by Tim Bonyhady
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed...
Susan Krawitz Wins 2015 Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award
Susan Krawitz of Stone Ridge, NY is the winner of the 2015 Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award for her middle-grade novel Viva, Rose. The Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award honors an unpublished manuscript for readers aged...
The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction
Editors: Avinoam J. Patt, Mark Shechner, and Victoria Aarons The book at Amazon and on Kindle With a mix of stories and novel chapters, The New Diaspora reprints selections of short fiction from such...
