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The book at Amazon and on Kindle In the early 1920s, the Czernitski family escapes anti-Semitism in Russia by immigrating to Chicago. By the age of ten, Lena Czernitski has experienced many hardships, including...
Editors: Galit Hasan-Rokem and Ithamar Gruenwald The book at Amazon and on Kindle At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of...
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In this biography, Shlomo Avineri portraits Theodor Herzl’s intellectual and spiritual odyssey from a private and marginal individual into a Jewish political leader and shows how it...
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In this fascinating book Adam D. Mendelsohn paints a vivid picture of how “rag picking” in nineteenth-century England and the United States served as the springboard for...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...