Jewish category: 3083 books
by Faye Levy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Low in fat and cholesterol, poultry has become the meat of choice for millions of health-conscious Americans. Now, the award-winning author of Faye Levy's International Jewish Cookbook presents over 300 mouth-watering vegetable recipes from all over the world.
The Second Avenue Deli Cookbook
Recipes and Memories from Abe Lebewohl's Legendary Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Second Avenue Deli has been an internationally renowned Gotham landmark for nearly half a century. Over the years, its founder, Abe Lebewohl, provided the best Jewish fare in town, transforming his tiny ten-seat Village eatery into a New York institution.
The Second Avenue Deli Cookbook...
King Solomon's Table
A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
From the James Beard Award-winning, much-loved cookbook author and authority: a definitive compendium of Jewish recipes from around the globe and across the ages.
Driven by a passion for discovery, the biblical King Solomon is said to have sent emissaries on land and sea to all corners of the...
Dedicate and Celebrate
A Messianic Jewish Guide to Hanukkah
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
All about Hanukkah for Jews and Christians
by Dr. Ron Wolfson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
Remember, retell, recreate, and relive the Exodus experiencewith the stories, rituals, foods, and songs of Pesah.This revised and expanded edition of the classic spiritual sourcebook offers updated information, more ideas, and new resources for every aspect of the Festival of Freedom.An inspiring and...
Never Again
A History of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
A work forty years in the making—Sir Martin Gilbert’s illustrated survey of the pre- and post-war history of the Jewish people in Europe.
Masterfully covering such topics as pre-war Jewish life, the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, and the reflections of Holocaust survivors, Gilbert interweaves firsthand...
Barricades and Banners
The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish...
by Barbara Burstin PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
By the mid-19th century, Jews from German lands began settling in Pittsburgh, later to be followed by Jews from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires and Romania. They founded businesses and organizations such as Giant Eagle, Kaufmann's Department Store, Montefiore Hospital, the Pittsburgh Playhouse,...
Family History of Fear
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
“Family History of Fear has been in me for years. Along with this secret. From the instant I found out I was not who I thought I was.”
Every family has its own history. Many families carry a tragic past. Like the author’s mother, many Poles did not tell their children a complete story...
A Drizzle of Honey
The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2000
When Iberian Jews were converted to Catholicism under duress during the Inquisition, many struggled to retain their Jewish identity in private while projecting Christian conformity in the public sphere. To root out these heretics, the courts of the Inquisition published checklists of koshering practices...
by Lawrence David Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This is the true story of a Jewish rag dealer in 1920s Huntsville Alabama who defied the local Ku Klux Klan. The Klan was determined to drive him out of town...or worse. Everyone expected blood in the streets. This is a tense but inspirational story with an unanticipated ending.
by Jacob Nacht
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This vintage book contains a fascinating essay on the subject of the shoe and its importance within Jewish customs and traditions, as well as its symbolism in other cultures and traditions. This concise and comprehensive treatise will appeal to those with an interest in footwear and what it has meant...
Building a Public Judaism
Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Coenen Snyder considers what the architecture and construction of nineteenth-century European synagogues reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. The process of claiming a Jewish space was a marker of acculturation but not full acceptance, she argues. The new edifices, even if spectacular, revealed the limits of Jewish integration.
The Other Zions
The Lost Histories of Jewish Nations
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The Other Zions tells the fascinating and little-known stories of independent Jewish states, kingdoms, and tribes throughout history. Though Israel is the only Jewish nation most people can name, there have been many more. Author Eric Maroney introduces readers to the Jews of Khazaria, Adiabene (modern...