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  • David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance

    Translated by Naftali Greenwood ...
    by Shlomo Aronson ...
    This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist 'renaissance', of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurion's Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now - after the dust surrounding Israel's founding father ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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  • The Invention of the Jewish People

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Yael Lotan ...
    A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.In this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mitzvah Girls

    Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn

    by Ayala Fader ...
    Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the next generation of nonliberal Jewish believers. To uncover how girls learn the practices of Hasidic ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Precious Objects

    A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life

    by Alicia Oltuski ...
    In the middle of New York City lies a neighborhood where all secrets are valuable, all assets are liquid, and all deals are sealed with a blessing rather than a contract. Welcome to the diamond district. Ninety percent of all diamonds that enter America pass through these few blocks, but the inner workings of this mysterious world are known only to the people who inhabit it.In Precious Objects, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Golden Age Shtetl

    A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

    by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern ...
    A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Never Far Apart

    by Kitty Salsberg, Ellen Foster ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrived in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which took both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto was fresh in their minds, as were their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto were far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigated their new surroundings, they each ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • "Not by Might, Nor by Power"

    The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism

    by Moshe Menuhin ...
    Series Book 22 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    With a new introduction by Adi Ophir: An early and fierce critique of Zionism from a Jewish child of Palestine who argued against nationalism and injustice.Born in 1893, Moshe Menuhin was part of the inaugural class to attend the first Zionist high school in Palestine, the Herzliya gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He had grown up in a Hasidic home, but eventually rejected orthodoxy while remaining dedicated ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Jewish Body

    An Anatomical History of the Jewish People

    by Melvin Konner ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic markers–Jewish genes. But this is not only a book that examines the human body through the prism of Jewish culture. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Code of Jewish Ethics: Volume 1

    You Shall Be Holy

    by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin ...
    Series Book 1 - A Code of Jewish Ethics
    A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy is the initial volume of the first major code of Jewish ethics to be written in the English language. It is a monumental work on the vital topic of personal character and integrity by one of the premier Jewish scholars and thinkers of our time.With the stated purpose of restoring ethics to its central role in Judaism, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin ... Read more

    Was $18.99 USD Now $14.99 USD

  • End of the Jews: Radical Breaks, Remakes and What Comes Next

    by Dr. Dan Aviv ...
    End of the Jews: Radical Breaks, Remakes and What Comes Next explores a pattern of crisis followed by a radical break and remake as a persistent phenomenon in Jewish history. The Jewish people have collectively braved many turning points over the past four millennia and, in each instance, did so by making a radical break from past forms of worship, notions of self and nation as well as sense of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Jewish Poland Revisited

    Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places

    by Erica T. Lehrer ...
    Series series New Anthropologies of Europe
    National Jewish Book Award Finalist: "A fresh and delightful portrait of Jewish renewal in Poland . . . Highly recommended." — ChoiceSince the end of Communism, Jews from around the world have visited Poland to tour Holocaust-related sites. A few venture further, seeking to learn about their own Polish roots and connect with contemporary Poles. For their part, a growing number of Poles are ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zakhor

    Jewish History and Jewish Memory

    by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    “Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship.” - New York Times Book Review ... Read more

    $23.79 USD