Schocken imprint: 160 books
by Ilan Stavans
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns...
Burnt Books
Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
Rodger Kamenetz, acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus, has long been fascinated by the mystical tales of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. And for many years he has taught a course in Prague on Franz Kafka. The more he thought about their...
by Franz Kafka
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The aphorism eludes definition: it can appear to be a random jotting or a more polished observation. Whether arbitrary fragment or crystalline shard, an aphorism captures the inception of a thought. Franz Kafka composed aphorisms during two periods in his life. A series of 109 was written between...
The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they...
Abraham
The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
One of the world’s best-known attorneys gives us a no-holds-barred history of Jewish lawyers: from the biblical Abraham through modern-day advocates who have changed the world by challenging the status quo, defending the unpopular, contributing to the rule...
A Pigeon and a Boy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
A mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion—from the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev.
During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted...
After Daybreak
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared...
The Yom Kippur War
The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An updated edition that sheds new light on one of the most dramatic reversals of military fortune in modern history.
The easing of Israeli military censorship after four decades has enabled Abraham Rabinovich to offer fresh insights into this fiercest of Israel-Arab conflicts. A surprise Arab...
by Lillian Schlissel
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.
A Child of Christian Blood
Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre.
On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian...
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves
Women in Classical Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
"The first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism. Though much debated, its position as the basic textbook on women's history in Greece and Rome has hardly been challenged."--Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement. Illustrations.
Lioness
Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The definitive biography of the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel
Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew...
Sloan-Kettering
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
A final collection of poetic works by the famed Jewish resistance fighter is comprised of pieces written in the last weeks of his life while he succumbed to cancer and are the poet's testament to a life lived with unflinching honesty and courage.
by Hillel Halkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of Hebrew poets and a shining example of the synthesis of religion and culture that defined the golden age of medieval Spanish Jewry.
Like Maimonides, with whom he contrasts sharply, Yehuda Halevi...