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by Daniela Abravanel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The study of the inner meanings of words and the creative power of the letters is the heart of the Jewish esoteric tradition, the Kabbalah. The Jewish Oral Tradition teaches that the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet are vessels that channel God’s powerful spiritual energy for creating the world....
Stories of Khmelnytsky
Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder, cut in the model of George Washington....
by Theodore S. Hamerow
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
This book answers the most pressing question about the Holocaust: Why did the West do nothing as Hitler's killing machine took hold?
The Allies stood by and watched Nazi Germany imprison and then murder six million Jews during World War II. How could the unthinkable have been allowed to happen?...
The Unwanted
America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany
"What's most chilling about Dobbs's book is how his account of the early years of World War II echoes our politics today. Xenophobia, isolationism,...
The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich
A Son's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
On the evening of February 15, 2001, Sonia Reich, Howard Reich's mother, packed some clothes into two brown shopping bags, put on her gray winter coat, locked the door to her home in Skokie, Illinois and fled. Someone was trying to kill her, "to put a bullet in my head," Sonia told anyone...
The Devil and the Jews
The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A JPS bestseller, this is the definitive work of scholarship on the medieval conception of the Jew as devil—literally and figuratively. Through documents, analysis, and illustrations, the book exposes the full spectrum of the Jew’s demonization as devil, sorcerer, and ritual murderer. The author...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The period between 1776-1826 signalled a major change in how Jewish identity was understood both by Jews and non-Jews throughout the Americas. Jews in the Americas, 1776-1826 brings this world of change to life by uniting important out-of-print primary sources on early American Jewish life with rare...
Fugitives of the Forest
The Heroic Story Of Jewish Resistance And Survival During The Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
The heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War.
The Holocaust and the Nakba
A New Grammar of Trauma and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive historical...
Blood
Reflections on what unites and divides us
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Blood is something that all humans share: a vital force that courses through our veins – the giver of life. This book gathers together specially commissioned essays from leading scholars which reflect on the religious, historical, and medical dimensions of blood. Written for a broad audience and...
The Burdens of Brotherhood
Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Winner of the J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the David H. Pinkney Prize, Society for French Historical Studies Winner of the JDC–Herbert Katzki Award, National Jewish Book AwardsWinner of the American Library in Paris Book Award A Choice Outstanding Academic Title...
Sharing the Seder
An Inclusive Haggadah
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
A complete yet brief Haggadah designed to engage all participants—whether Jewish or non-Jewish, Seder veterans or first-timers. The Haggadah includes thought-provoking questions to stimulate group discussion, innovative transliteration for English readers who are not familiar with Hebrew, and original art that complements the text and captivates the imagination of all ages.
Bernard Malamud
A Writer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period. The time is ripe for a revival of interest in a man who at the peak of his success stood alongside...
We All Wore Stars
Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the...