Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Haven in Chile
A Final Reckoning
A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah
Between Home and Homeland
Youth Aliyah from Nazi Germany
An American Rabbi in Korea
A Chaplain's Journey in the Forgotten War
A firsthand account of the American Jewish experience on the front lines of the Korean War
Martin Buber's Formative Years
From German Culture to Jewish Renewal, 1897–1909
Nationalizing a Borderland
War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914–1920
For Decades I Was Silent
A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith
A fascinating memoir about a Holocaust survivor's loss of and journey back to faith.
Jewish Continuity in America
Creative Survival in a Free Society
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Haven in Chile
Rabbi Max Heller
Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929
Twilight of a Golden Age
Selected Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra
Paganism - Christianity - Judaism
A Confession of Faith
Now remembered primarily as Franz Kafta's friend and literary executor, Max Brod was an accomplishered thinker and writer in his own right. In this volume, he considers the nature and differences between Judaism and Christianity, addressing some of the most perplexing questions at the heart of human existence.
To Come to the Land
Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel
To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research,
previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now
known as Israel.
Essays in Jewish Thought
The Quiet Voices
Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s
These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since Reconstruction
Militant Zionism in America
The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948
This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism fills a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of American Judaism. Based on years of archival research and interviews and written in a compelling style, Militant Zionism in America documents events that reshaped the American Jewish community, influenced American foreign policy, and contributed to one of the most extraordinary events of modern history: the creation of the State of Israel.
A Place of Our Own
The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping
The history of educational summer camps in American Reform Judaism
Dixie Diaspora
An Anthology of Southern Jewish History
Regional Jewish history at its best. This book is an anthology of essays designed to introduce readers to key issues in this growing field of scholarship and to encourage further study.
Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain
Selected Poems of Samuel Ibn Nagrela
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