Market Day by Pál Závada
Translator: Owen Good The Hungarian List A novel exploring the descent of superficially decent people into vindictive killers. What could bring people to form a mob and attack others? What circumstances could provoke a...
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A Wing and A Prayer: My Life and Times by Malcolm Weisman
Reverend Malcolm Weisman OBE played a unique role in Anglo Jewry for nearly three quarters of a century. As an RAF Chaplain from 1957 and a Barrister at Law from 1961, he drove his...
When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash by Ethan B. Katz, Sergey Dolgopolski, Elisha Ancselovits (Editors )
Routledge Approaches to History This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they...
The Jake Show by Joshua S. Levy
In Joshua S. Levy’s hilarious and charming middle grade novel, a Jewish seventh grade boy is caught between the worlds of his divorced parents—with an orthodox mother and secular father, Jake must concoct a...
A Book About Bubkes by Leslie Kimmelman
Illustrator: Roxana de Rond This is a book about bupkes: nothing, zero, zilch. Sometimes, though, what looks like nothing turns out to be the most important thing of all. An empty garden seems like...
A Gift of Feathers by Ken Schept
Illustrator: Romina Galotta A picture book by Ken Schept and illustrated by Romina Galotta about the power of remembrance and intergenerational tradition. When she finds a feather, Grandma Dot adds it to her collection. Feathers,...
The Belarusian Shtetl: History and Memory by Irina Kopchenova, Mikhail Krutikov (Editors)
Jews of Eastern Europe For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English,...
Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed by Marsha Lederman
For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’...
The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line by James M. Thomas
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity The Souls of Jewish Folk argues that late nineteenth-century Germany’s struggle with its “Jewish question”―what to do with Germany’s Jews―served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B....
Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society by Kimmy Caplan, Nissim Leon (Editors)
This edited volume offers profiles of contemporary Israeli Haredi (i.e., Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) society from several disciplinary points of view, resisting a generalized approach and examining the different, sometimes competing currents, that define it. It...
