Judaism category: 3160 books
Scattered Among the Nations
Photographs and Stores of the World's Most Isolated Jewish Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
With vibrant photographs and intricate stories Scattered Among the Nations tells the story of the world’s most isolated Jewish communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union and the margins of Europe. Over 2,000 years ago, a shipwreck left seven Jewish couples stranded off...
What We Brought Back
Jewish Life After Birthright
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Chosen Tales
Stories Told by Jewish Storytellers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
The storytellers represented in Chosen Tales are among the most active and talented Jewish storytellers in the world. This extraordinary collection of 68 stories is, in a way, a Jewish storytelling festival, where storytellers gather to share stories, hear each other's stories, and get to know each...
Home Lands
Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The idea for this book came to Larry Tye as he traveled overseas as a reporter for the Boston Globe. In each city he visited he was intrigued by a reawakening of practice and spirit of the long repressed Jewish community. And the more communities he saw close-up, the clearer it became to him that...
Hitler's First Victims
The Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal.
Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic....
Yeshiva Boys
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
David Lehman, a poet of wit, ingenuity, and formidable skill, draws upon his heritage as a grandson of Holocaust victims and offers a stirring autobiographical collection of poems that is his most ambitious work to date. It covers an expansive range of subjects -- from love, sex, and romance to repentance,...
What Went Wrong?
The Creation & Collapse of the Black-Jewish Allia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
For nearly a century, blacks and Jews were allies in the struggle for civil rights and equality in America. Sometimes risking their lives, they waged battle in the courts, at lunch counters, and in the academy, advancing the cause of all minorities. Their historical partnership culminated in the landmark...
by Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927.
It was the author, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch, who spearheaded the underground Jewish resistance to Stalin’s ideological Final Solution — and paid for it by brutal incarceration...
Uncovered
How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award
Wordwrite Award
Finalist: Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize, May Sarton Award, Independent Publisher Book Award, Chautauqua Prize
a Redbook Magazine and Good Housekeeping Best of the Year
Houston Chronicle #1 Pick
Uncovered is...
by Gail Herman, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event—the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps—six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis,...
The Deadliest Lies
The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
The representative of the Jewish community and staunch defender of human rights, Foxman delivers a powerful blow to such ideas as "The Israel Lobby." He shows how old stereotypes associated with the most virulent forms of bigotry have been resurfacing and taking subtle new forms. From Carter...
The Bridge Builder
The Life and Continuing Legacy of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The amazing story of Yechiel Eckstein, a Chicago-based orthodox rabbi who founded the world’s largest philanthropic organization of Evangelical Christians in support of Israel.
When the Anti-Defamation League sent a young Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein to Chicago to foster interfaith relations in...
More Than Miracles
Elaine Zeidman Markovic and the Story of The Scott Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
With Holy chutzpah and a bold trust in miracles led Morris and Annie Zeidman to found The Scott Mission in 1941. With the help of their children, they built one of Toronto’s best-loved inner city ministries: “the Miracle on Spadina.” Through the eyes of their daughter Elaine Zeidman Markovic, a...
by Julie Klam
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
**Look out for Julie's new book, The Stars in Our Eyes.
From the author of Friendkeeping and Love at First Bark, one woman's hilarious, bittersweet account of growing up in a family of career-shunning, dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of twenty-first-century self-reliance.**
Julie...