Jewish category: 3083 books
Final Sale in Berlin
The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Before the Nazis took power, Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors. But Nazi racism changed that, gradually destroying Jewish businesses before murdering the Jews themselves. Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive...
We Stand Divided
The Rift Between American Jews and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
From National Jewish Book Award winner and author of Israel, a bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reinterprets the past and reimagines the future of Jewish life
Relations between the American Jewish community and Israel are at an all-time nadir. Most explanations...
by Ken Blady
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Jewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in remote places on the Asian and African Jewish geographical periphery, became isolated from the major centers of...
Ethnicity and Beyond
Theories and Dilemmas of Jewish Group Demarcation
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Volume XXV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores new understandings and approaches to Jewish "ethnicity." In current parlance regarding multicultural diversity, Jews are often considered to belong socially to the "majority," whereas "otherness" is reserved for "minorities."...
Jewish Rhetorics
History, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This volume, the first of its kind, establishes and clarifies the significance of Jewish rhetorics as its own field and as a field within rhetoric studies. Diverse essays illuminate and complicate the editors’ definition of a Jewish rhetorical stance as allowing speakers to maintain a “resolute...
The Gourmet Jewish Cookbook
More than 200 Recipes from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From modern spins on classics, like Schnitzel Noodle Stir Fry and Matza Granola, to make-ahead meals, like Passover Beef Lasagna, to sophisticated dishes, like Veal Chops with Mushroom Sauce, this cookbook covers it all. Suited both for home chefs looking to introduce new foods into their repertoire...
by Leah Koenig
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
The second elegant little book of Jewish culinary traditions, the Little Book of Jewish Feasts offers the perfect dishes to feature at the center of the table. Leah Koenig shares 25 globally inspired Jewish holiday main dishes that will satisfy and delight, from Balsamic and Brown Sugar Brisket to...
Jewish History in Conflict
A Study of the Major Discrepancy between Rabbinic and Conventional Chronology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
The author writes:
“According to Seder Olam Rabbah, the work that forms the basis for almost all rabbinic chronology, the .period from the defeat of the Babylonians by the Medeo-Persians until the beginning of Greek rule, encompassed 52 years and spanned the reigns of three Persian kings....
Writing Jewish
Contemporary British-Jewish Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
British-Jewish writers are increasingly addressing challenging questions about what it means to be both British and Jewish in the twenty-first century. Writing Jewish provides a lively and accessible introduction to the key issues in contemporary British-Jewish fiction, memoirs and journalism, and explores...
by Bala Menon, Dr Essie Sassoon, Kenny Salem
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
The Cochinim (as the Jews from Cochin are called in Israel), like Jews across the world, love their food. However, their diet does not have the bland cholent, kishke and gefilte that are considered traditional Jewish fare. Throughout the 2000 years of their joyful history in the erstwhile Kingdom...
A Hundred Acres of America
The Geography of Jewish American Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from the colonial era forward. But troublingly, scholarship on Jewish American literary history often limits itself to an immigrant model, situating...
The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus
History of the Jewish War against the Romans, The Antiquities of the Jews, Against Apion, Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades & Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
This meticulously edited collection has been formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The War of the Jews The Antiquities of the Jews Against Apion Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades The Life of Flavius Josephus: Autobiography Titus Flavius Josephus was a...
The Healthy Jewish Kitchen
Fresh, Contemporary Recipes for Every Occasion
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
From Kosher classics to gourmet international dishes, this is Jewish soul food . . . finally made healthy!
Too often, Jewish cookbooks still feature many recipes that lack whole grains and include too much salt, fat, sugar, and processed foods. But Paula Shoyer’s delicious take on Jewish...
by Joshua Abelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
General and special studies on Christian mysticism are numerous enough; but it is somewhat remarkable that, in their introductory pages, authors, who have much to say of Plotinus and Neoplatonism, have nothing or very little on the still more cognate subject of Jewish mysticism. This is not, however,...