Jewish category: 3083 books
At Oma's Table
More than 100 Recipes and Remembrances from a Jewish Family's Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
An intimate collection of Jewish family recipes spanning three generations.
Unlike many in her generation, Doris Schechter was lucky enough to grow up knowing one of her grandparents. Polish by birth, Leah Goldstein-or Oma, as Doris called her-was a capable, nononsense woman and an amazing...
by Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The history of Jews in Spain and Portugal spans more than thousand years. By most measures, it is even longer than the large-scale settlement of Jews in the land of Israel which was interrupted several times in Jewish history. Legends ascribe the arrival of the earliest settlers to the days of the...
The Road to September 1939
Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv, acting primarily out of self-interest, energetically attempted to help European Jews escape the Nazi threat. Drawing on the memoirs, letters, and institutional reports of Chaim Weizmann,...
Major Farran's Hat
The Untold Story of the Struggle to Establish the Jewish State
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
In May 1947 a sixteen-year-old Jewish activist named Alexander Rubowitz was abducted in broad daylight from the streets of Jerusalem. At the abduction scene, a gray hat was found, purportedly belonging to Major Roy Farran, a decorated World War II officer who was in charge of British counterterrorism...
Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade
Setting the Record Straight
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
In the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide has opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a harmonious and supportive relationship has suffered from a powerful and oft-repeated legend, that Jews controlled and masterminded the slave trade and owned...
Militant Zionism in America
The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism fills
a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of American Judaism.
This book recounts the fascinating and little-known story
of the militant American Zionists who lobbied Congress, rallied American
public opinion,...
Return to Zion
The History of Modern Israel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The history of modern Israel is a story of ambition, violence, and survival. Return to Zion traces how a scattered and stateless people reconstituted themselves in their traditional homeland, only to face threats by those who, during the many years of the dispersion, had come to regard the land as...
Exiled in the Homeland
Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Offering a new perspective on Zionism, Exiled in the Homeland draws on memoirs, newspaper accounts, and archival material to examine closely the lives of the men and women who immigrated to Palestine in the early twentieth century. Rather than reducing these historic settlements to a single, unified...
by Abraham Benhur
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
There are two unresolved mysteries in history. One is the disappearance of the ten Israelite tribes that the Assyrians had enslaved and transported to their lands and put them to slave for the empire. They eventually disappeared from history, and the Bible refers to them as the ‘Lost People’.
The...
by Anthony Horvath
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Christian art portrays the tomb on Easter morn as being guarded by just two Roman guards, leading both Christians and non-Christians to give credence to an explanation that was roundly dismissed at the time: the guards simply fell asleep. In this series of essays, Christian apologist Anthony Horvath...
We Who Lived
Two Teenagers in World War II Poland
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Hava (Eva) Bromberg and Ephraim Sokal were Jewish teenagers in Poland when the Nazis invaded in 1939. Hiding in plain sight, Bromberg lived among the non–Jewish Polish population, always in danger of discovery or betrayal. Sokal and his family were deported as “enemies of the people” when the...
by Ida Simons
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
It is the middle of the roaring twenties, and Gittel is living The Hague with her parents, whose blazing rows are the traditional preserve of Sundays and public holidays. What luck, then, that Gittel is Jewish, and must submit to "the double helping of public holidays that is the lot of Jewish...
Unveiling Eve
Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Unveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries. In the Jewish Middle Ages, writing was...
by P. R. Otokletos
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
This work details G_D's great plan for restoration as revealed through the eternal Holy Days and prophecy contained with G_D's Torah and does so from a Messianic Judaism or Hebrew Roots perspective. As we approach the end times both Jewish believers and adherents of Christianity should grasp...