The Ice Queen by Nele Neuhaus
The book at Amazon and on Kindle The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is...
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Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice
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 Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family by Roger Cohen
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...
God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
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...
Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way by Hasia R. Diner
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by...
Happy are the Happy by Yasmina Reza
Translator: John Cullen The book at Amazon and on Kindle “Happy are the loved ones and the lovers and those who can do without love. Happy are the happy.” —Jorge Luis Borges This citation...
His Wife Leaves Him by Stephen Dixon
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Stephen Dixon, one of America’s great literary treasures, has completed his first novel in five years — His Wife Leaves Him, a long, intimate exploration of the...
Jew Got Questions? by Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Jew Got Questions is an easy-to-read guide that helps you navigate Judaism in today’s world. Throughout the author’s 13 year Rabbinical career, he has been asked numerous...
Saul Bellow: Novels 1984-2000
The book at Amazon For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last...
I Carry My Mother by Lesléa Newman
I Carry My Mother is a book-length cycle of poems that explores a daughter’s journey through her mother’s illness and death. From diagnosis through first yahrzeit (anniversary of death), the narrator grapples with what...
