Jewish category: 3083 books
by Lesléa Newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Here is the world, ever changing and new,
Spinning with joy at the wonder of you!
Here Is the World is a joyous celebration of the Jewish holidays throughout the year for young children. Beginning with the weekly observance of Shabbat, readers join a family through the holidays and the corresponding...
Jabotinsky's Children
Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
How interwar Poland and its Jewish youth were instrumental in shaping the ideology of right-wing Zionism
By the late 1930s, as many as fifty thousand Polish Jews belonged to Betar, a youth movement known for its support of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism. Poland was not...
Cooking Jewish
532 Great Recipes from the Rabinowitz Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2007
Got kugel? Got Kugel with Toffee Walnuts? Now you do. Here's the real homemade Gefilte Fish – and also Salmon en Papillote. Grandma Sera Fritkin’s Russian Brisket and Hazelnut-Crusted Rack of Lamb. Aunt Irene's traditional matzoh balls and Judy's contemporary version with shiitake mushrooms. Cooking...
The Art of Jewish Cooking
A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
A veteran genius of a cook shows you how to prepare the richest, most luscious meals your imagination or appetite could desire!
Jennie Grossinger was the celebrity whose zest for good Jewish food put Grossinger’s famous Catskill resort on the map, attracting more than 50,000 guests each year....
Aromas of Aleppo
The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
When the Aleppian Jewish community migrated from the ancient city of Aleppo in historic Syria and settled in New York and Latin American cities in the early 20th century, it brought its rich cuisine and vibrant culture. Most Syrian recipes and traditions, however, were not written down and existed...
Healthy Cooking for the Jewish Home
200 Recipes for Eating Well on Holidays and Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Thanks to the ever-increasing number of kosher products available to home cooks, it's never been easier or more satisfying to prepare delicious, wholesome, and healthful kosher meals. In this new collection of exciting recipes, acclaimed journalist, cooking teacher, and cookbook author Faye Levy presents...
The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook
Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today's Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Beautifully translated for a new generation of devotees of delicious and healthy eating: a groundbreaking, mouthwatering vegetarian cookbook originally published in Yiddish in pre–World War II Vilna and miraculously rediscovered more than half a century later.
In 1938, Fania Lewando, the...
On the Chocolate Trail
A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Explore the surprising Jewish and other religious connections to chocolate in this gastronomic and historical adventure through cultures, countries, centuries and convictions. Rabbi Deborah Prinz draws from her world travels on the trail of chocolate to enchant chocolate lovers of all backgrounds as...
The Fragility of Law
Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property.
David Fraser demonstrates...
by Josephus
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Titus Flavius Josephus (37 circa 100) was a 1st-century Roman-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First JewishRoman War which resulted in the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. He has been credited...
Orientalizing the Jew
Religion, Culture, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews living in their homeland during the 19th century. Julie Kalman draws on narratives, personal and diplomatic correspondence, novels, and plays to show how the "Jews of...
by Ira Robinson, Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between...
The Woman Who Laughed at God
The Untold History of the Jewish People
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Who is a Jew? In this colorful, eye-opening work, bestselling author and lecturer Jonathan Kirsch takes us on a three-thousand-year tour of Jewish identity and diversity and offers answers to this complex and difficult question. Kirsch reveals that Judaism has never been a religion of strict and narrow...
Tropical Zion
General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of...