New Jewish Books
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Jewish identity is the great theme of American Jewish historiography, and Marni Davis’s engrossing and well-written book belongs to this genre. It originated as a doctoral dissertation...
Editors: Elliot N. Dorff & Danya Ruttenberg The book at Amazon Studies have shown that young generations of Jews place high value on social change as part of their Jewish identity. They personally participate...
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing through to the present day, Roger Cohen tracks his family’s story of repeated upheaval, from Lithuania to South Africa, and...
It combines the fruits of academic research with the personal reminiscences of protagonists, creating a collective narrative of Cuban Jews, particularly those who migrated to Miami, on their historical experience prior to the Castro...
The book at Amazon and on Kindle From major religious or intellectual explorations to shorter commentaries on experiences, quandaries and cultural, political and personal affirmations, almost ninety contributors from sixteen countries respond to this...
Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize “us” and “them” through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders....
The proceedings of the 2014 Association of Jewish Libraries Conference held in Las Vegas are now online, thanks to the Proceedings Chair Elana Gensler. You can find them at http://databases.jewishlibraries.org/node/49281 , including: 2 Jews & 3 Opinions:...
The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Companion volume to the exhibition Edited by Arthur Kiron; preface by Beth S. Wenger; prologue by Arnold H. Kaplan; and essays by Dianne Ashton,...
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Based on a horrifying true story of one of the Holocaust’s worst Nazi war criminals comes a crime thriller that combines a police procedural, courtroom thriller, and...
The book at Amazon This book describes a physical and intellectual journey in the author’s life that traces his involvement in the excavation of a site on Mount Ebal, which the Bible describes as...
