The Gobblings by Matthue Roth
Daniel Eason illustrator The book at Amazon Herbie is lonely. His parents moved to a space station in the middle of nowhere, and there’s nothing to do. He spends a lot of time wandering...
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Stanford University Press: Year-End Book Sale: 30% Off 2014 Titles & More!
We’re celebrating another fantastic year of publishing with our Year-End Sale. Now through December all 2014 print titles are 30% off while a handful of gift books—photography albums, popular interest titles and the like—are...
In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel by Adam Rovner
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In the Shadow of Zion brings to life the true stories of six exotic visions of a Jewish home outside the biblical land of Israel. Israel’s establishment...
The Ethics of Witnessing: the Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Rachel Brenner
Lecture organized by the European Division of the Library of Congress Wednesday, December 17, 2014 The European Division, the LCPA Polish Language Table, and the Hebraic Section, African & Middle Eastern Division, present Rachel...
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
The book at Amazon and on Kindle A new novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early...
Lullaby by Debbie Friedman
The book at Amazon Another new book and CD set this season is an illustrated version of the beloved late songstress Debbie Friedman’s take on the bedtime Shema prayer. “Lullaby” is one of her...
Presentations at EVA/Minerva 2014 Jerusalem International Conference now available
We are glad to announce the availability of the presentations at the 2014 EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of the Culture that took place last November 10-11. The presentations are at: http://2014.minervaisrael.org.il/ A...
The Wall by H.G. Adler
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Drawing upon Adler’s own experiences in the Holocaust and his postwar life, The Wall, like the other works in the trilogy, nonetheless avoids detailed historical specifics. The...
New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene by Tamar Barzel
The book at Amazon Coined in 1992 by composer/saxophonist John Zorn, “Radical Jewish Culture,” or RJC, became the banner under which many artists in Zorn’s circle performed, produced, and circulated their music. New York’s...
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel by Anita Shapira
The book at Amazon and on Kindle David Ben-Gurion cast a great shadow during his lifetime, and his legacy continues to be sharply debated to this day. There have been many books written about...
