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...
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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
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...
Coming in January: Spiritual Kneading through the Jewish Months by Dahlia Abraham-Klein
Building the Sacred through Challah Spiritual Kneading gives an extensive history of Rosh Chodesh and why it’s traditionally been a woman’s holiday. The connection between challah and Rosh Chodesh is further explained, as it’s...
A Kosher Christmas: ‘Tis the Season to be Jewish by Joshua Eli Plaut
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Christmas is not everybody’s favorite holiday. Historically, Jews in America, whether participating in or refraining from recognizing Christmas, have devised a multitude of unique strategies to respond...
December 2014 Jewish Book Carnival
It is being hosted by Becky Schastey at the Gihon River Press blog at http://www.gihonriverpress.com/2014/12/14/jewish-book-carnival-december-2014/. You’ll find links to Jewish book news, book reviews and author interviews. Thanks to all the participating bloggers! First...
The Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2014 (Tablet)
Great Hanukkah gifts about subjects ranging from civil rights to jazz, Torah to immigration, goofy frogs to spooky goblins The list includes Simon and the Bear Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins I Know an...
Asylum City by Liad Shoham
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In this thriller from the author of Lineup, a young police officer’s investigation of a murder plunges her into the dark underworld of Tel Aviv. When young...
The Maccabee on the Mantel by Abra Liberman Garrett
The Maccabee on the Mantel Book and Plush Gift Box Set at Amazon For those who think the Chanukah story has gotten short shrift in the toy department, meet this smiling Maccabee plush doll and...
Jewish Women Writers in Britain by Nadia Valman
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Against a background of enormous cultural change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writing by British Jewish women grappled with shifting meanings of Jewish identity, the pressure...
