Schocken imprint: 160 books
by Franz Kafka
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
"These magnificent letters, meticulously set up and annotated, show us aspects of Kafka that were only hinted at in earlier collections and help us trace his development from unhappy young law student and insurance administrator to novelist and short-story writer of originality and genius."
--Publishers...
Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words...
Russ & Daughters
Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal herring, and silken...
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...
Not in God's Name
Confronting Religious Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner***
In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If religion is perceived as being part of the problem,...
The Sunflower
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more.
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken...
by Ruth R. Wisse
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful...
A History of Zionism
From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
From one of the most distinguished historians of our time comes the definitive general history of the Zionist movement.
Shopping for Identity
The Marketing of Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In America today, you can connect to your ethnic heritage in dozens of ways, or adopt an identity just for an evening. Our society is not a melting pot but a salad bar--a bazaar in which the purveyors of goods and services spend close to $2 billion a year marketing the foods, clothing, objects, vacations,...
by Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Distinguished psychotherapist and survivor Elhanan Rosenbaum is losing his memory to an incurable disease. Never having spoken of the war years before, he resolves to tell his son about his past—the heroic parts as well as the parts that fill him with shame—before it is too late.
Elhanan's...
by Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Twenty years after he and his family were deported from Sighet to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel returned to his town in search of the watch—a bar mitzvah gift—he had buried in his backyard before they left.
The Trial of God
(as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)
A Play by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Marion Wiesel
Introduction by Robert McAfee Brown
Afterword by Matthew Fox
Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the...
by Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
A collection of tales immortalizing the heroic deeds and visions of people Wiesel knew during and after World War II.
A Bintel Brief
Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country,...