The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewi...
Edith H. BeerEdith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the...
The Night lasted five years and eight days. Before the Night began, Ernst Bornstein was a precocious eighteen-year-old¬ who had an ordinary family with three siblings, two parents, and a large circle of friends and relatives. But in...
The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One o...
Matti FriedmanWinner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish LiteratureA thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was house...
The Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization. Millions read it, retell it, and celebrate it. But did it happen? Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, a...
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found Worl...
Adina HoffmanNATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALISTNow in paperback, the dramatic story behind the discovery and reclamation of nine hundred years' worth of discarded Hebrew texts—parchment fragments of the Bible and Talmud, medieval poetry, legal ...
You must read "TREES, the Green Testament. " A cartoonist channels a prophetic view of Judeo Christian civilization and our shared fundamental belief system. It is the Bible, Zionism, and world history, from the viewpoint of...
Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for...
Naomi LevyWinner of the 2017 Nautilus Award in the Religion/Spirituality of Western Thought Category A bestselling author and rabbi's profoundly affecting exploration of the meaning and purpose of the soulEinstein and the Rabbi is an inspiring ...
Discovering the City of Sodom: The Fa...
Latayne C. ScottThe fascinating, true account of the quest for one of the Old Testament's most infamous cities.Like many Christians today in the academic world, Dr. Steven Collins felt pulled in different directions when it came to apparent conflicts...
Judaism: A Very Short Introduction
Norman SolomonNormon Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. Demonstrating the diverse nature and ethnic origin of Jewish people, Solomon explores how the religion has developed in the 2,000 years ...
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Th...
Sarah Abrevaya SteinNamed one of the best books of 2019 by The Economistand a New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice. A National Jewish Book Award finalist. "A superb and touching book about the frailty of ties that hold together places and peop...