Title: In Search of Memory, The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Dr. Eric R. Kandel, with his family, escaped Nazism in Vienna in 1939 when they came to America.
Title: Rashi’s Daughters, Book One – Yocheved
Ms. Anton's book falls into that genre termed historical fiction, but in this extensive volume of over 360 pages, one can begin to wonder if Ms. Anton had a fly on the wall, so realistic are her characterizations. One could wonder it her real calling is as a "medievalist."
Title: Judaism’s Encounter With American Sports
Despite commonly held conceptions that athletic prowess and Jews don't mix, a Jewish fascination and involvement with the world of sports can be traced back throughout the ages.
Title: The Unorthodox Murder Of Rabbi Wahl
I don't know about you - but we really miss the old Harry Kemelman "Friday the Rabbi Slept Late" books - which were some of the first of the genre of rabbinic murder mysteries.
Title: The Ransom Of The Jews – The Story Of The Extraordinary Secret Bargain...
Throughout Jewish history, we have unfortunately grown accustomed to ransoming our people from being held hostage by many evil empires.
Kosher Food Production
Whether we are involved in kiruv, or in kashrus management, at home, in shuls, or in institutional management, we have a need for a kashrut authority to refer to.
Title: A Passover in Rome
At Rose Kryger's funeral, her son Meir, now a physician in Winnipeg, was surprised to learn from the rabbi's funeral oration that his mother had some bottled up secrets and had yearned to be a writer.
Travel Guides From Pelican Publishing
Our friend, Mr. Ben G. Frank - the famous, inimitable Judaic travel writer - has written a new edition of A Travel Guide To The Jewish Caribbean & South America.
Title: The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery Of A Strange and Dangerous Life
This biography/adventure story of Essad Bey, nee Kurban Said, born Lev Nussimbaum, creatively ties together many disparate elements in a wonderful tour de force that is both enchanting and spell-binding.
Title: In Our Own Voices – A Guide To Conducting Life History Interviews With...
The art of letter writing seems to have gone the way of the buggy whip.
Title: The Lost Princess and Other Kabbalistic Tales of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Storytelling conveys profound lessons about Hashem and our relationships with other people, and today's students and teachers continue to be inspired by these stories.
Title: The Mourning Sexton
The protagonist in this engrossing murder mystery, David Hirsch, is an attorney who has served eight years in federal prison for his white-collar crimes, including phony billing charges to many of his former clients.
Title: Rescued from The Reich – How One Of Hitler’s Soldiers Saved The Lubavitcher...
Once again, Mr. Rigg tells a spellbinding tale, this one of danger and intrigue during wartime Europe.
Title: Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines
Title: Rogov's Guide to Israeli WinesAuthor: Daniel RogovPublisher: Toby Press, New Milford, CT
Did you know that you can experience an aspect of Israel for...
Title: The Messiah of Brooklyn: Understanding Lubavitch Hasidism – Past and Present
It is a truism that one should never judge a book by its cover, or even title.
Title: Guide To Jewish New York City
Oscar Israelowitz has outdone himself with the recently published, entirely updated guide to Jewish sights, sounds and fragrances of interest in all of New York City.
Title:”Raid On The Sun; Inside Israel’s Secret Campaign That Denied Saddam the Bomb”
If you really want to learn how to read quickly - try a page-turner like "Raid On The Sun" - but you'll truly be sorry when you've turned the last page!
Title: The Banality Of Denial: Israel And The Armenian Genocide
We have an ugly name for people who commit the ugly crime of declaring that The Holocaust never happened - they are called 'deniers,' and have been successfully prosecuted both here and abroad.
Title: Olive Trees and Honey; A Treasury of Vegetarian Recipes from Jewish Communities Around...
It claims to be a cookbook - but this is one of the best Jewish -Baedekers' (travelogues) we've seen in quite a long time.
Title: The Hebrew Kid And The Apache Maiden
A fascinating 'coming-of-age' story, The Hebrew Kid and The Apache Maiden is first in a series of young-adult novels written especially for young members of Torah-observant families.
A Chassidic Court Comes Alive
Prior to World War II, Jewish religious culture, customs and style varied from country to country in Eastern Europe.
Title: The Thanksgiving Ceremony, New Traditions for America’s Family Feast
There is a public high school located in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section that is named after 19th-century educator Sarah J. Hale.
Title: Nazi Laws And Jewish Lives; Letters From Vienna
Hannah Ahrendt wrote about the banality of evil - the "ordinariness" of the everyday occurrences of evil behavior that befell Jews under the Nazi regime.
Title: G.I. Jews; How World War II Changed A Generation
More than a half-million of all Jewish citizens of the United States, nearly ten percent, served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II.
Title: Seven Blessings
Once Jerusalem has touched your soul, it never lets you go!
Title: Nothing is Too Late; The Hunt for a Holocaust Swindler
Take a really good look at the photo accompanying this week's book review. Do you
recognize this person?
Title: Pilgrimage from Darkness: Nuremberg to Jerusalem
Author David E. Feldman was working on another book when he was invited to lunch by a neighbor, Leonard Levine, in Long Beach, Long Island.
Title: Emanations
Rabbi Ari D. Kahn is a popular lecturer at Aish HaTorah and the Director of the Overseas Student programs at Bar Ilan University in Israel.
Title: The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews during...
Title: The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War IIBy: Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and Mary SwartzPublisher: Gefen...
Title: Dancing Arabs
Without expressing anti-Semitism or even anti-Zionism, this literary jewel of a debut novel
from an Arab-Israeli expresses what it means to be a hyphenated citizen in Israel today.
