Jewish category: 3083 books
by Jennifer Littman
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Jewish families celebrate Shabbat after sundown on Friday evenings. In this story, Bubbe prepares for the Shabbat meal by making her family's favorite soup.
by Anne Dublin
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
In 1492, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain signed the Edict of Expulsion, giving all Jews three months to leave the country. In the aftermath, twelve-year-old Joseph escapes to Lisbon, Portugal with his parents and younger sister, Gracia. After only eight months of safety, Joseph and Gracia,...
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
A classic Hanukkah tale, now available in a beautiful anniversary edition. A Caldecott Honor book.
On the first night of Hanukkah, a weary traveler named Hershel of Ostropol eagerly approaches a village, where plenty of latkes and merriment should warm him.
But when he arrives not...
by Janet Ruth Heller
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Lisa and her little brother Jon enjoy collecting stamps. But when their father holds a contest to decide which child will get a new large stamp album, Lisa has to solve a difficult problem.This chapter book for ages 8 to 12 (grades 3 to 6) takes place around 1960 and portrays a Jewish family...
The Hare with Amber Eyes
A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who "burned like a comet" in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings,...
by Orly Ziv
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2016
Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards 2013 How to cook delicious and healthy Israeli food like a pro "Cook in Israel has earned a permanent spot in my kitchen." ~ This American Bite This cookbook, presenting 34 original recipes, focuses on fresh flavors and simple techniques...
Kosher Nation
Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Kosher? That means the rabbi blessed it, right? Not exactly. In this captivating account of a Bible-based practice that has grown into a multibillions-dollar industry, journalist Sue Fishkoff travels throughout America and to Shanghai, China, to find out who eats kosher food, who produces it, who...
Israel
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
“The most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published” (Efraim Karsh, The Sunday Telegraph).
Fleeing persecution in Europe, thousands of Jewish immigrants settled in Palestine after World War II. Renowned historian Martin Gilbert crafts a riveting account of Israel’s turbulent...
Hitler in Los Angeles
How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.
No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda...
Yiddish
A Nation of Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This first-ever popular history of Yiddish is so full of life that it reads like a biography of the language.
For a thousand years Yiddish was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe,...
Ravensbruck
Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrück, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women
On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women—housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes—was marched through the woods...
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz
The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
"Shocking. Revelatory. Compelling. A truly authentic and riveting read. A milestone in WWII and Holocaust history."-- Damien Lewis, author: The Nazi Hunters
A harrowing, beautifully written and extremely well-researched account of a little-known aspect of the Holocaust. Patricia Posner's...
Hitler's Furies
German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
“Compelling . . . Lower brings to the forefront an unexplored aspect of the Holocaust.” —Washington Post
In a surprising account that powerfully revises history, Wendy Lower uncovers the role of German women on the Nazi eastern front—not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but...
Fragments of Isabella
A Memoir of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The deeply moving, Pulitzer Prize–nominated memoir of a young Jewish woman’s imprisonment at the Auschwitz death camp.
In 1944, on the morning of her twenty-third birthday, Isabella Leitner and her family were deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp. There, she and her siblings...