Jewish Studies
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
$24.00 Add to cartIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how ha
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1632062267
- Language: English
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The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
$46.58 Add to cartThe untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringing–and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create
In The Jewish World of Alexan- Author: Porwancher, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 0691211159
- Language: English
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The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
$32.99 Add to cart“Remarkably insightful . . . A groundbreaking revision that deserves to reframe the entire debate . . . It soars.”–The New York Times Book Review
In The Accidental Empire, Gershom Gorenberg examines- Author: Gorenberg, Gershom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082417
- Language: English
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The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West
$19.95 Add to cartA 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Religion Category
“With clarity and penetrating insight, Alex Ryvchin unravels the mystery of antisemitism… Mandatory reading for anyone concer… [more below]
- Author: Ryvchin, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887191560
- Language: English
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The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
$21.95 Read more- Author: Porwancher, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 069123728X
- Language: English
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The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom
$13.95 Add to cartA highly respected rabbi, therapist, and teacher restores women’s spiritual lineage to Judaism and empowers women to reclaim their rightful connection to Jewish teachings, Kabbalah, and to their own s
- Author: Firestone, Tirzah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 06, 2004
- ISBN10: 0060082712
- Language: English
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Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria
$34.95 Add to cartOn a winter’s day in the mid-1970s the photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin sought warm refuge and, camera in hand, passed through the revolving doors of Dubrow’s Cafeteria on Kings Highway. There, be
- Author: Halperin, Marcia Bricker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501766511
- Language: English
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The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation
$17.00 Add to cartAt the opening of the 21st century, incidents of violent assault on Jews and antisemitism have begun spreading, fueled by today’s capitalist crises. Across history–from antiquity to feudalism, to cap… [more below]
- Author: Leon, Abram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 160488116X
- Language: English
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End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel
$29.95 Add to cartEnd of Days is an Israeli Orthodox Jew’s attempt to provide a Jewish faith-based alternative to ethnic superiority in Israel, and a theological political framework for those wishing to promote equalit… [more below]
- Series: New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
- Author: Manekin, Mikhael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887193243
- Language: English
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We Need to Talk about Antisemitism
$30.00 Add to cartA millennial rabbi explores why we’re reluctant to discuss antisemitism–and empowers us to fight against it
Antisemitism is on the rise in America, in cities and rural areas, in red states and blue
- Author: Fersko, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601947
- Language: English
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Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, a compelling discussion of the dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century.
The very word Jew continues- Author: Prager, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 12, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743246209
- Language: English
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Jewish History – The Big Picture
$28.95 Add to cartAdult readers will appreciate this epic story of the Jewish people rendered as a concise, accessible, and engaging narrative.
This lively and accessible volume presents the full range of Jewish history
- Author: Gevirtz, Gila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 1, 2008
- ISBN10: 0874418380
- Language: English
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The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance
$22.95 Add to cartA timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.
What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations- Series: Political Imagination
- Author: Magid, Shaul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: 14-Nov-23
- ISBN10: 9798986780313
- Language: English
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The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Battle for Its Inner Soul
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – An urgent, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, and the external threats to their country, at a critical juncture in its history. – … [more below]
- Author: Kershner, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1101946768
- Language: English
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How to Fight Anti-Semitism
$17.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD – The prescient founder of The Free Press delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country–and exp… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Bari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593136268
- Language: English
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Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship
$29.99 Add to cartEver since Plato’s Republic, the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and so has the study of particular leaders. Although Jewish scholars, thinkers, and popularizers have contr… [more below]
- Author: Soloveichik, Meir Y.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773286
- Language: English
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
$17.95 Add to cartRenowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewis
- Author: Horn, Dara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035943
- Language: English
