Jewish category: 3083 books
Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons
A Romanian Jewish Girl's Survival through the Holocaust in Transnistria and Its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
When Sophica was six years old, she was deported together with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni, Romania to a strip of land in Eastern Ukraine called Transnistria. Death, illness, brutality, and shame became her daily life. Hungry and afraid, she held on to her sanity...
The Investigation
A True Story from Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
On January 30 1933, a German-Jewish civil servant is sitting at his desk at the Baumeisterstrasse Tax Office, in central Hamburg. He has just signed a number of documents and is looking out of the window when one of his staff rushes into the room without knocking and announces that Adolf Hitler...
The Heart Is a Mirror
The Sephardic Folktale
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
Since their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews have managed to maintain their Jewish faith and Spanish group identity and have developed a uniquely Judeo-Spanish culture wherever they settled. Among the important cultural ties within these Sephardic groups are Judeo-Spanish folktales, stories...
Jews and India
Perceptions and Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2008
Exploring the image of Jews in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book looks at both the Indian attitudes towards the Jewish communities of the subcontinent and at the way Jews and Judaism in general have been represented in Indian discourse.
Despite the fact that the Indian...
Homeless Tongues
Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora. It introduces three writers working in minor or threatened languages who challenge the usual consensus of Jewish literature:...
Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature
Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences...
In Scripture
The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Applying psychoanalytic and gender theory to selected Biblical narratives from Genesis to the Book of Ruth, Lefkovitz interprets the Bible's stories as foundation texts in the development of sexual identities. In Scripture is an exploration of the Biblical origins of a series of unstable ideas about...
On the Mediterranean and the Nile
The Jews of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Aimée Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab nationalism,...
Stumbling Into Modernity
Isaac Bashevis Singer's Cling to Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Stumbling Into Modernity:
Isaac Bashevis Singer's Cling to Tradition takes an admiring, yet critical look at a body of literature that reflects a crossover, not only geographic, with immigration from Poland, but from traditional, tribal values treasured in the Jewish provinces of Europe and then questioned...
The Jews of Ethiopia
The Birth of an Elite
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on Europe and the role played by German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, it investigates such issues...
by Israel Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
The Book of Delight and Other Papers by one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation, Israel Abrahams.Abrahams collaborated with Claude Montefiore to write the book Aspects of Judaism, which was published in 1895. His chief works were Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896) and Chapters on Jewish Literature (1898).
by Eliezer Segal
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
A Time for Every Purpose continues the series of collections of Eliezer Segal’s witty and penchant articles about the Jewish sacred calendar that originally appeared in his “From the Sources” column in the Calgary Jewish Free Press between 2011 and 2015. As always, the author strives to maintain...
The Land of Truth
Talmud Tales, Timeless Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing the tales in their original contexts, exploring their cultural meanings and literary artistry, and...
Soldier of Rome: Vespasian's Fury
The Great Jewish Revolt, #2
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
**Hell Unleashed**
It is July of 67 A.D. The brutal, forty-seven day siege of the rebel stronghold of Jotapata, in Galilee, has ended. The Roman armies of Vespasian destroyed the city and captured the leader of the resistance, Josephus ben Matthias. While being interrogated by the Roman commanding...