A Hebrew Chronicle from Prague, C. 1615
"In about 1615 an anonymous Jew from Prague composed a short Hebrew chronicle to recount 'the expulsions, miracles, and other occurrences befalling [the Jews] in Prague and the other lands of our long exile.' Abraham David discovered the manuscript [and] added glosses, historical notes, and an introduction. . . . The chronicle, with its brief annual entries, is not a continuous narrative, but does give a feeling of immediacy, like a newspaper."
—Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
Dreamer of the Ghetto
The Life and Works of Israel Zangwill
Udelson provides a trenchant analysis of Zangwill's works set within a historical context, i.e., Jewish emancipation and the dilemma of how one might remain fully Jewish while becoming fully modern.
Gone to Another Meeting
The National Council of Jewish Women, 1893-1993
Travail In An Arab Land
Kentucky
The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux
Assimilation and Emancipation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France
Nahum Goldman
His Missions to the Gentile
The Holocaust Odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando
Sephardim in the Americas
Studies in Culture and History
Birmingham's Rabbi
Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940
Rabbi Morris Newfield led Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham from 1895-1940 and was counted among the most influential religious and social leaders of that city
Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy
A thorough examination of the life and work of Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer, an important contributor to the creation of a modern Jewish Orthodoxy during the late 1800s.
Separation of Church and State
Dina de-Malkhuta Dina in Jewish Law
This Happy Land
The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston
This Happy Land charts the history of the Jewish community in Charleston, South Carolina, from the arrival of the first Jewish settlers in the 1690s until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.
Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1828
Jewish Reformer and Intellectual
This revealing biography of Isaac Harby sheds much light on the beginnings of Reform Judaism and the economic and cultural rise and fall of Charleston during this period.
Argentina and the Jews
A History of Jewish Immigration
Yiddish & English
The Story of Yiddish in America
This is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years.
A Thousand Kisses
A Grandmother's Holocaust Letters
Letters to a beloved son and his family tell the poignant story of one woman's life in Nazi-occupied Prague