Bar Mitzvah: A History by Rabbi Michael Hilton
The book at Amazon and on Kindle. How did bar mitzvah develop over the centuries from an obscure legal ritual into a core component of Judaism? How did it capture the imagination of even...
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Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels by Henry Roth
The book at Amazon and on Kindle. Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth, a retired waterfowl farmer already in his late eighties, shocked the literary...
You’re Not Much Use to Anyone by David Shapiro
The book at Amazon and on Kindle. David is a freshly minted NYU grad who’s working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he’s studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr...
Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition by Carmel Chiswick
At the core of Judaism stands a body of traditions that have remained consistent over millennia. Yet, the practice of these rituals has varied widely across historical and cultural contexts. In Judaism in Transition,...
The Heist by Daniel Silva
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Venice repairing an altarpiece by Veronese when he receives an urgent summons from the Italian police. The eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood has stumbled...
The Soul of Jewish Social Justice by Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
The Soul of Jewish Social Justice offers an intellectual and spiritual approach for how Jewish wisdom must be relevant and transformational in its application to the most pressing moral problems of our time. The...
A Possibility of Violence by D. A. Mishani
Haunted by the past and his own limitations, Israeli Detective Avraham Avraham must stop a criminal ruthless enough to target children in this evocative and gripping tale of mystery and psychological suspense that is...
The Tailors of Tomaszow: A Memoir of Polish Jews by Rena Margulies Chernoff and Allan Chernoff
Seven decades after the Nazis annihilated the Jewish community of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, comes a gripping eyewitness narrative told by one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, as well as through first-hand accounts of...
James Carroll: Warburg in Rome
David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war’s end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d’Erasmo, a French-Italian...
A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century by Noah J. Efron
Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why Jews have succeeded extravagantly in modern science. Rejecting the idea that Jews have done well in science because of uniquely Jewish traits, Jewish brains, and Jewish...
