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Jews and Science by Sander L. Gilman

Jews and Science by Sander L. Gilman

The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the agents for study of things Jewish, but also the subject of examination by “scientists” across a range of disciplines, from biology and bioethics to…

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On Repen­tance And Repair: Mak­ing Amends in an Unapolo­getic World by Danya Rut­ten­berg

On Repen­tance And Repair: Mak­ing Amends in an Unapolo­getic World by Danya Rut­ten­berg

A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture’s most painful and unresolved issues American culture focuses on letting go of grudges and redemption narratives instead of the perpetrator’s obligations or recompense for harmed parties. As survivor communities have pointed out, these emphases have too often only caused…

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Jewish Women in Time and Torah by Eliezer Berkovits

Jewish Women in Time and Torah by Eliezer Berkovits

RABBI DR. ELIEZER BERKOVITS’ FINAL BOOK, Jewish Women in Time and Torah, is a critical examination of the status of women in Halakhah. It offers a coherent theological approach by which the eternal Divine nature of Torah must be upheld, and yet also recognize that the ever-changing status of women, reflected in our sacred texts, is linked to historical and social movements of humanity in the…

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One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset by Shi­mon Adaf

One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset by Shi­mon Adaf

Translator: Yardenne Greenspan At age thirty, Elish Ben Zaken has found himself in a life he never imagined. As a university student, Elish was an esteemed rock-music critic for local newspapers; now, disenchanted with an increasingly commercialized music scene, he has joined a private investigation agency where he is content to be a “clerk of small human sins”―a finder of stolen cars and…

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Jewish Revival Inside Out: Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age by Daniel Monterescu, Rachel Werczberger (Editors)

Jewish Revival Inside Out: Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age by Daniel Monterescu, Rachel Werczberger (Editors)

Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Against the gloomy forecast of “The Vanishing Diaspora”, the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultural initiatives, institutional modalities, and individual practices. These “Jewish Revival” and “Jewish Renewal” projects are led by Jewish NGOs and philanthropic organizations, the Orthodox…

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Hebrew Mat­ters: 110 Hebrew Roots; the Roads They Take; the Sto­ries They Tell by Joseph Lowin

Hebrew Mat­ters: 110 Hebrew Roots; the Roads They Take; the Sto­ries They Tell by Joseph Lowin

Hebrew Matters is the third in a trilogy of books-following HebrewSpeak and HebrewTalk- that examines Hebrew roots, their derivations and their contexts, as they appear in the Hebrew Bible, Rabbinic Literature, Medieval Hebrew Poetry, and on the vibrant streets of the modern State of Israel. Each of the book’s 110 chapters is devoted to one Hebrew root and takes the reader on a journey through…

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Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman by Samantha Pickette

Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman by Samantha Pickette

Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy Jewish Women in the Americas Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy analyzes the ways in which contemporary American television—with its unprecedented choice, diversity, and authenticity—is establishing a new version of the Jewish woman and a new take…

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Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosen­berg’s Life in Poems by Bar­bara Krasner

Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosen­berg’s Life in Poems by Bar­bara Krasner

Convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union against the United States, Ethel Rosenberg shares the story of her beliefs, loves, secrets, betrayals, and injustices in this compelling YA novel in verse. In 1953, Ethel Rosenberg, a devoted wife and loving mother, faces the electric chair. People say she’s a spy, a Communist, a red. How did she get here? In a series of…

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Defender of the Faithful: The Life and Thought of Rabbi Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv by Arthur Green

Defender of the Faithful: The Life and Thought of Rabbi Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv by Arthur Green

The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry The first scholarly biography of Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv in English in over thirty-five years. Defender of the Faithful explores the life and thought of Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv (1740–1809), one of the most fascinating and colorful Hasidic leaders of his time. This is an intellectual and religious biography, a reading of the…

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A Summer of Mass Murder by George Eisen

A Summer of Mass Murder by George Eisen

1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets. The summer of 1941 ushered in…

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A Stone for the Journey by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

A Stone for the Journey by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

The Havah’s Journey trilogy-Please Say Kaddish for Me, From Silt and Ashes, As One Must, One Can-abridged into one illustrated volume with bonus stories. No one can forget the bravery and perseverance of Havah Cohen Gitterman, the Jewish heroine of Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’s captivating family saga. Born in Czarist Russia at the turn of the century, Havah is the only survivor of the pogrom that…

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Those Sum­mer Nights by Lau­ra Silverman

Those Sum­mer Nights by Lau­ra Silverman

After recovering from a life-changing injury, a teen girl must navigate a new job, an ex-best friend, and two surprisingly attractive coworkers in this “sweet, romantic summer tale” (Kirkus Reviews) for fans of Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian. Hannah used to be all about focus, back before she shattered her ankle and her Olympic dreams in one bad soccer play. These days, she’s all about…

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The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19 by Jeremy Brown

The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19 by Jeremy Brown

A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped the history of the Jewish people. Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of the Jewish people. Of course, there were the ten biblical plagues that famously smote the Egyptians–from the rain of frogs to the deaths of the…

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Enduring Questions: Using Jewish Children’s Literature in Classrooms by David Bloome, Evelyn B. Freeman, Rosemary Horowitz , Laurie Katz

Enduring Questions: Using Jewish Children’s Literature in Classrooms by David Bloome, Evelyn B. Freeman, Rosemary Horowitz , Laurie Katz

Children’s literature is ubiquitous in preschool and elementary school classrooms and in school libraries. Teachers use children’s literature for pedagogical purposes and to excite children’s imaginations and expose them to “worlds” beyond their own experience. Over the past thirty years, teachers have increasingly used children’s literature to expose their students to cultural, racial, and…

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Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives: A Critical Guide by Matt Reingold

Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives: A Critical Guide by Matt Reingold

Bloomsbury Comics Studies Series Editor: Chris Gavaler The most up-to-date critical guide mapping the history, impact, key critical issues, and seminal texts of the genre, Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives interrogates what makes a work a “Jewish graphic narrative”, and explores the form’s diverse facets to orient readers to the richness and complexity of Jewish graphic…

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Leav­ing East­ern Parkway by Matthew Daub

Leav­ing East­ern Parkway by Matthew Daub

Brooklyn’s Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and everyday life changes forever in the life of Zev Altshul. He is first placed into the care of the closed and close-knit community where he grew up, but soon realizes he can’t stay. His saving grace is handball; it’s his gift from God, and the one thing he can rely on as he is shuttled, chased, and…

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Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form by Sarah Scott

Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form by Sarah Scott

A new collection of essays highlighting the wide range of Buber’s thought, career, and activism. Best known for I and Thou, which laid out his distinction between dialogic and monologic relations, Martin Buber (1878–1965) was also an anthologist, translator, and author of some seven hundred books and papers. Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form, edited by Sarah Scott, is a collection of…

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