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The fortune teller's kiss

The fortune teller's kiss


Brenda Serotte



From Publishers Weekly Poet Serotte relives a childhood cataclysm in this culture-rich, affecting memoir, part of the Ame...
The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak: Volume 2

The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak: Volume 2


Agnieszka Latała, Jakub Gutenbaum



Review "When the children of the Holocaust speak, one must listen-then weep, pray, and cherish the memories of those who ...
To Jerusalem and Back (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

To Jerusalem and Back (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)


Saul Bellow



Review ''An impassioned and thoughtful book . . . Bellow delights in the liveliness, the gallantry of Israeli life--peopl...
Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday


Barbara Harshav, Benjamin Harshav, S. Y. Agnon



From Publishers Weekly Israeli Nobel Prize-winner Agnon (1887-1970) is a founding father, like Theodor Herzl. While Herzl...
Good neighbors, bad times: echoes of my father's German village

Good neighbors, bad times: echoes of my father's German village


Mimi Schwartz



From Publishers Weekly When Schwartz's (Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed) father was born in 1898, half of his native Germ...
Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller

Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller


Ira Nadel



From Publishers Weekly Never especially popular with the critics, Leon Uris was one of the biggest-selling writers of the...
In the Catskills: a century of Jewish experience in ''The Mountains''

In the Catskills: a century of Jewish experience in ''The Mountains''


Phil Brown



From Publishers Weekly The culture of the Catskills the wide range of hotels, bungalows, rooming houses and elaborate res...
The Contemplative Soul: Hebrew Poetry and Philosophical Theory in Medieval Spain (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval)

The Contemplative Soul: Hebrew Poetry and Philosophical Theory in Medieval Spain (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval)


Adena Tanenbaum



The Contemplative Soul: Hebrew Poetry and Philosophical Theory in Medieval Spain (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval)...
Responsibility and Judgment

Responsibility and Judgment


Hannah Arendt



From Publishers Weekly Arendt (1906-1975), among the last century's most eminent political philosophers, never lived to c...
1 Enoch 91-108 (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature (Cejl))

1 Enoch 91-108 (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature (Cejl))


Loren T., Stuckenbruck



Review "This is a major achievement. Stuckenbruck brings to bear a wealth of learning and a circumspect judgment that are...
Primo Levi and the politics of survival

Primo Levi and the politics of survival


Frederic D. Homer



About the Author Frederic D. Homer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. He is also th...
The darkness we carry: the drama of the Holocaust

The darkness we carry: the drama of the Holocaust


Robert Skloot



About the Author Robert Skloot is professor in the Department of Theater and Drama and in the Center for Jewish Studies at ...
William and Rosalie

William and Rosalie


Craig Hanley, Rosalie Schiff, William Schiff



From William Schiff is now 88, and his wife, Rosalie, is 84. Coauthor Craig Hanley spent months interviewing these Holoc...
Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)

Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)


David G. Roskies



Review Eloquent and moving...daring and comprehensive...What Mr. Roskies has accomplished in Against the Apocalypse docum...
A Clash of Heroes: Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism (Studies in Jewish History)

A Clash of Heroes: Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism (Studies in Jewish History)


Ben Halpern



Review "The most sophisticated and perceptive analysis of the Brandeis-Weizmann conflict to date."--Journal of American H...
Milton and the Rabbis

Milton and the Rabbis


Jeffrey Shoulson



Review "[Shoulson]... is as sophisticated a reader of Milton's works as he is of the rabbinical writings that shaped the mi...
Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present (The New Middle Ages)

Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present (The New Middle Ages)


Miriamne Ara Krummel



Review Crafting Jewishness adds much to our understanding of antisemitism. For medieval historians like me, the book prov...
Judas Maccabaeus: The Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids

Judas Maccabaeus: The Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids




Book Description This book is an account of the battles fought by Judas Maccabeus between 166 and 160 B.C. against the fo...
Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith

Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith


Nils H. Roemer



From the Publisher Series: Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature Paul Mendes-Flohr, Series Editor ...
Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook


Joel Shatzky, Michael Taub



Review "Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, and Bernard Malamud are but a few of the galaxy of Jewish American novelists who have ...
Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature, Volume 1: Writers

Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature, Volume 1: Writers


Thomas Riggs



Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature, Volume 1: Writers...
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Pamphlets on American Writers)

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Pamphlets on American Writers)


Ben Siegel



From the Back Cover Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessib...
The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague

The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague


Yudl Rosenberg



From Publishers Weekly In this first English translation of Rosenberg's "groundbreaking collection of stories," novelist,...
Traditional Techniques in Classical Hebrew Verse (JSOT Supplement)

Traditional Techniques in Classical Hebrew Verse (JSOT Supplement)


Wilfred G. E. Watson



About the Author Wilfred Watson teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. ...
Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought

Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought


Franz Rosenzweig, Nahum N. Glatzer



Review Rosenzweig's life combined a fabulous spiritual search, a profound engagement with philosophy as well as with Jud...
Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe


Bryan Mark Rigg



From Publishers Weekly The last decade has seen many books recounting the actions of German Christians who helped Jews su...
Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry: 1948-1963 (Israeli History, Politics and Society)

Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry: 1948-1963 (Israeli History, Politics and Society)


A. Feldeistein



About the Author Sapir Academic College, Israel ...
Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers 2nd Edition (Routledge Key Guides)

Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers 2nd Edition (Routledge Key Guides)




Review Cohn-Sherbok has done a service for those of us needing short biographies of 50 important figures in our tradition...
Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets

Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets


Amelia Glaser, Dana Craft, David Weintraub, Dovid Katz



Review "By making available in English for the first time this political poetry, Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub have c...
The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance

The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance


Adam Zachary Newton



Review "If for Kafka writing was a form of prayer, literary criticism is similarly for Adam Zachary Newton a quest for th...