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Menachem Begin's Zionist Legacy

Menachem Begin’s Zionist Legacy

The book on Kindle This collection of brilliant and never-before-published essays by six of the most perceptive observers of Jewish and American life gives fresh insight into the personal, political, and religious character of...

National Library of Israel

A Trip to the Library by Anne Roiphe

Tablet Magazine article This is a report on the Jewish Theological Seminary’s library trip to Israel from a bookish girl who is now a bookish old lady. I recognize that one day that is...

The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg

The book at Amazon and on Kindle This beautifully written novel, spanning from the 1920s to the present day, tells the story of several generations of a large Jewish family in California. The narrative...

70 Days for 70 Years

70 Days for 70 Years

Quote from the project’s website: 70 Days for 70 Years is designed to engage and empower participants in a global project in memory of Holocaust victims and to create a positive learning experience and...

Freud: An Illustrated Biography by Corinne Maier

Freud: An Illustrated Biography by Corinne Maier

Anne Simon, illustrator The book at Amazon This graphic novel by economist, historian, and psychoanalyst Corrine Maier explores the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers. Freud is the...

Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar

Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar

Translators: Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck The book at Amazon and on Kindle Published just months after the founding of the state of Israel and the end of the 1948 war, the novella...