Jewish category: 3083 books
Hanukkah, 2nd Ed.
The Family Guide to Spiritual Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2001
Create a meaningful and happy Hanukkah in your home with story, celebration, food and song. This newly designed, easy-to-use edition of a classic spiritual sourcebook offers updated information, more family ideas, and new resources for every aspect of your holiday celebration.Every aspect of Hanukkah...
Settling the Account
(Mijn Erfenis)
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
It was 1942 in Amsterdam when Isaac and Anna Staal began noticing their Jewish neighbors disappearing. Some were taken away by Dutch police. Some vanished in the middle of the night. As the Nazis embarked on a manhunt for Dutch Jews, Isaac and Anna made the agonizing decision to entrust their children...
The Goose Girl, the Rabbi, and the New York Teachers
A Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Part history, part memoir, The Goose Girl, the Rabbi, and the New York Teachers: A Family Memoir recounts a narrative of lives lived in dramatically changing times. In the background loom author Deborah Hellers distant forebears: a maternal great-great-grandmother, the first Jewish woman in her nineteenth-century...
All Together Different
Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In the early 1930’s, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the overwhelming majority of whom were...
Judeans and Jews
Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In writing in English about the classical era, is it more appropriate to refer to “Jews” or to “Judeans”? What difference does it make? Today, many scholars consider “Judeans” the more authentic term, and “Jews” and “Judaism” merely anachronisms.
In Judeans and Jews, Daniel...
by Edersheim, Alfred
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
In this volume, Rev. Alfred Edersheim transports the reader into the land of Palestine and gives them a deep look into the land of Palestine at the time of Jesus.
Jewish Radical Feminism
Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American Publishers
Fifty years after the start of the women’s liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other
Jacob Isaac Segal
A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Translated by Vivian Felsen
Finalist, 2018 Governor General’s Literary Awards (GGBooks), Translation category
Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish writers in Canada. His poetry, infused with lyricism and mysticism, along...
Because of Eva
A Jewish Genealogical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family’s past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history. What began as a seemingly simple search for "Eva," the elderly relative who had signed Gordon's grandfather's death certificate...
A Shadow of Good Things to Come
The Testimony of Christ Through the Old and New Testaments Book 1 of a Two-Part Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
An excellent book for anyone who is seeking to know more about the living God.
The first book in a two-part series, A Shadow of Good Things to Come, is a colorful book of Jewish history , dating from the time of creation with the Ancient of Days to king David. You will learn that God had a...
Conscience and Courage
Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
In this brilliantly researched and insightful book, psychologist Eva Fogelman presents compelling stories of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust--and offers a revealing analysis of their motivations. Based on her extensive experience as a therapist treating Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and...
Rywka's Diary
The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The newly discovered diary of a Polish teenager in the Lodz ghetto during World War II—originally published by Jewish Family & Children’s Services of San Francisco, now available in a revised, illustrated, and beautifully designed trade edition.
After more than seventy years in obscurity,...
by Suzanna Eibuszyc
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Description of Jewish life and the faith of those surviving throughout Russia and Uzbekistan during those six arduous years of war. For Polish Jews, Soviet Russia and Central Asia, a hard exile, proved to be the best chance for escaping the fire that engulfed Europe. My mother survived against all...
A World Without Us
The saga of a jewish family in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
The Saga of a Jewish Family in Italy before the 1938 Racial Laws came in. A normal family, A normal life.
"If Hitler had won, I would never have been born, nor would my children and my grandchildren.
There would be no Jews left in the world, no Roma people, no disabled people, no homosexuals.
And...