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by Leah Koenig
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Beloved cookbook author Leah Koenig brings us the sweetest installment yet in her Little Book series, this time focusing on cookies, cakes, and all manner of sweet Jewish treats. With delectable photography and 25 tasty recipes—from Orange-Chocolate Rugelach and Mocha Black-and-White Cookies to...
Jewish Concepts of Scripture
A Comparative Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
What do Jews think scripture is? How do the People of the Book conceive of the Book of Books? In what ways is it authoritative? Who has the right to interpret it? Is it divinely or humanly written? And have Jews always thought about the Bible in the same way?
In seventeen cohesive and rigorously...
A Thousand Years of Jewish History
From the Days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A Thousand Years of Jewish History
From the Days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list)
Preface to revised edition
Introduction
Themes for Discussion
Maps and Illustrations
Chronological...
Jewish Bravehood
The victorious saga from Spain to America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
The Jews were drastically expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. In Portugal, the king deported 2,000 Jewish children to colonize the island of Santo Tomé, in Africa, and also decreed forced conversion to Christianity. The aim was to erase the traditions...
by Esther Schor
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
The definitive biography of the poet whose sonnet "The New Colossus" appears on the base of the Statue of Liberty, welcoming immigrants to their new home.
Emma Lazarus’s most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her...
The Mascot
Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The "spellbinding" (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish boy who became the darling of the Nazis
When a Nazi death squad massacred his mother and fellow villagers, five-year-old Alex Kurzem escaped, hiding in the freezing Russian forest until he was picked up by a group of Latvian...
by Amanda Peet, Andrea Troyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
For anyone who's ever asked "Why can't we have a Christmas tree?" comes a lighthearted story about being Jewish during the holiday season—by actress Amanda Peet!
Rachel Rosenstein is determined to celebrate Christmas this year—and the fact that her family is Jewish is not going...
by Sylvie Weil
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The streets are eerily empty, and everyone in the Jewish community is terrified of Peter the Hermit. His men, the Crusaders, are moving through the town on their way to the Holy Land. They have been known to batter down doors and burn Jewish houses, all in the name of religion.
This...
The Lady in Gold
The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Bloch-Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century...
Secrets of a Jewish Baker
Recipes for 125 Breads from Around the World: A Baking Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In this James Beard Award-winning cookbook, George Greenstein reveals 125 recipes for the yeasted and quick breads that have been handed down through his family by three generations of bakers—the breads that made his bakery so well-loved for so many years.
For more than twenty years, Greenstein...
Abraham's Children
Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming increasingly unclear. Now in ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN bestselling author Jon Entine vividly brings to life the profound human implications of the Age of Genetics while illuminating...
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them took...
by Steve Buchsbaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Against a backdrop of rival empires and shifting borders, the Buchbaum and Heller families lived in the foothills of the Carpathians mountains for centuries.
Follow Steve Buchsbaum as he visits the Polish and Hungarian villages and towns where his ancestors lived and traces the details of their...
by Charles Fenyvesi
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
When The World Was Whole: Three Centuries of Memories by Charles Fenyvesi (76,000 words, 40 illustrations)
In this family memoir, Charles Fenyvesi brings back to life his ancestors who loved and improved the poor soil they tilled in northeastern Hungary, kept the countless rules of their Jewish...