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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tower of Babel

Tower of Babel


A. S. Gadot



From School Library Journal Kindergarten-Grade 2—A lighthearted and visually humorous retelling of the Bible story...
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Dr. Charles David Spivak: A Jewish Immigrant and the American Tuberculosis Movement (Timberline)

Dr. Charles David Spivak: A Jewish Immigrant and the American Tuberculosis Movement (Timberline)


Jeanne E. Abrams



Review "What makes Jeanne E. Abram's biography, and the life it chronicles, so enchanting is the representation of the ex...
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163256: A Memoir of Resistance (Life Writing)

163256: A Memoir of Resistance (Life Writing)


Michael Englishman



About the Author Michael Englishman was born in Amsterdam and immigrated to Canada after the war. He was an advisor at th...
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Hanukkah Moon

Hanukkah Moon


Deborah Da Costa



Hanukkah Moon...
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Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972

Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972


Edward K. Kaplan



Review “This is a prodigiously researched, sound, and important book. Spiritual Radical  is a substantial ach...
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Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra

Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra


Shareen Blair Brysac



From Publishers Weekly Brysac's aim is not to provide a biography in the usual sense but to share tantalizing insights in...
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Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)

Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)


Susan L. Einbinder



Review An impressive examination of the character and function of the poetry of martyrdom commemorating Jews who perished...
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Women's Autobiography: War and Trauma

Women's Autobiography: War and Trauma


Victoria Stewart



Review "... expands the current academic discourse in the field of trauma studies. Whereas a great deal of attention has ...
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Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (Sports Publications)

Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (Sports Publications)


Joseph M. Siegman



Review "A fine accomplishment . . . exhaustive research . . . JEWISH SPORTS LEGENDS opens a wide world of sports." --LOS ...
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Living Root: A Memoir (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

Living Root: A Memoir (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)


Michael Heller



From Library Journal American poet Heller (b. 1937) has written a memoir of his youth in Brooklyn and Miami Beach, FL, th...
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Brian Friel, Ireland, and The North (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre)

Brian Friel, Ireland, and The North (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre)


Scott Boltwood



Review 'Boltwood's thesis is clear and forcefully made.' Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies Book Des...
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The Grammar of Modern Hebrew

The Grammar of Modern Hebrew


Lewis Glinert



Language Notes Text: English, Hebrew --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ...
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Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz: Posthumanist Reflections (Italian & Italian American Studies)

Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz: Posthumanist Reflections (Italian & Italian American Studies)


Jonathan Druker



Review “Druker’s ‘contrarian’ reading of Primo Levi in a posthumanist light, through the lens o...
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Staying Human Through the Holocaust

Staying Human Through the Holocaust


Terez Mozes



About the Author Following the war, Teréz Mózes long and distinguished career included journalism, teaching, dire...
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Redefining Judaism in an Age of Emancipation (Studies in European Judaism)

Redefining Judaism in an Age of Emancipation (Studies in European Judaism)


C., Wiese



About the Author Christian Wiese, Ph.D. (1997), is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Erfurt University and taught...
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A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and Jewish Tradition (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)


Merle Feld



From the Back Cover Praise for A Spiritual Life "Reading Feld, you burst out laughing one minute and wipe away tears the ...
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Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou

Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou


Jennifer Moses



From Publishers Weekly In an absorbing memoir, Moses (Food and Whine) describes her disorienting move from Washington, D....
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Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag

Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag


Janusz Bardach Kathleen Gleeson



From Bardach (who recently died) and Gleeson are the authors of Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag (1998). In this ...
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Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans

Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans


Erich S. Gruen



From Library Journal Gruen (history and classics, Berkeley) explores four centuries of Jewish life within the dominant c...
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Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian And Jewish Narrative (Symposium Series)

Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian And Jewish Narrative (Symposium Series)




About the Author Jo-Ann Brant, Ph.D. (1991) in Religious Studies, Judaism and Christianity in the Graeco-Roman Era, McMas...
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