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by Brofsky, David
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The dynamic Jewish calendar provides constant religious challenges and spiritual opportunities. It allows us to focus on the birth of our nation, our travels in the desert, our relationship to God, and the giving of the Torah. Through the in-depth study of the Torah and the halakhot of the moadim,...
When God is Near
On the High Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
For decades, thousands from around the world gathered to join Rabbi Yehuda Amital zt”l as he led the High Holiday prayers at Yeshivat Har Etzion. Right before the most critical points in the services, at moments of high spiritual intensity, he would pause to address the assembled with words that...
by Steven Fine
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Steven Fine explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western world’s oldest continuously used religious symbol. This meticulously researched yet deeply personal history explains how the seven-branched menorah illuminates the great changes and continuities in Jewish culture, from biblical times to modern Israel.
by Harold B. Hunting
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
Foreword
I. Shepherds on the Border of the Desert
II. Home Life in the Tents
III. Desert Pilgrims
IV. A Struggle Against Tyranny
V. A Great Deliverance
VI. From the Desert into Canaan
VII. Learning...
by Jerold S. Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
AGAINST THE GRAIN is a collection of challenging and insightful essays from a reflective American historian. Jerold Auerbach, Professor Emeritus of History at Wellesley College (where he taught for 40 years), writes in the Foreword how his academic career and his time in Israel "each in its own...
Exile in the Maghreb
Jews under Islam, Sources and Documents, 997–1912
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The Exile in the Maghreb entails the first attempt at describing the historical reality of the legal and social condition of the Jews in the Muslim countries of North Africa (principally Algeria and Morocco) over a thousand year period from the Middle Ages (997 C.E.) to the French colonization (1830...
How the Jews Defeated Hitler
Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but actually played a major role...
by Arnost Lustig
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1962, Night and Hope is a collection of interrelated short stories by a young Czech writer who was a boy in the Terezín concentration camp near Prague during the war. They have already been received with great acclaim abroad and they now make their appearance for the first time...
The Murder of William of Norwich
The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as a mockery of Christianity....
The Typological Imaginary
Circumcision, Technology, History
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
In this book Kathleen Biddick investigates the fate of the enduring timelines fabricated by early Christians to distinguish themselves from their Jewish neighbors. Ranging widely across the history of text, technology, and book art, she relates three interwoven stories: the Christians' translation...
History vs. Apologetics
The Holocaust, the Third Reich, and the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Set within the context of the political and ideological developments of the time, History vs. Apologetics examines the role played by the Catholic Church in the rise and consolidation of the Third Reich and in particular with regard to the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Distanced in the beginning,...
Rena's Promise
A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
An expanded edition of the powerful memoir about two sisters' determination to survive during the Holocaust featuring new and never before revealed information about the first transport of women to Auschwitz
Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death...
In Memory's Kitchen
A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable. The pages are filled with recipes. Each is a memory, a fantasy, a hope for the future. Written by undernourished and starving women in the...
Mimi of Nový Bohumín, Czechoslovakia
A Young Woman’S Survival of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Mimi Rubin had fond memories of growing up in Nov Bohumn, Czechoslovakia, a place that ten thousand people called home. It was a tranquil town until September 1, 1939, when the German army invaded the city. From that day forward, eighteen-year-old Mimi would face some of the harshest moments of her...