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Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and persona...

An insightful collection of essays on the Kabbalah and Jewish spirituality—from the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism.Gershom Scholem was the ...

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the sto...

With the publication of The Periodic Tableon 1984, Primo Levi became one of America’s most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and ...

The Middle East is the birthplace of ancient civilizations, but most of the modern states that occupy its territory today are of recent origin, as ...

A book that enhances our appreciation of the Bible—"explaining, exploring, and deepening our sense of what it means to be a human being of faith in...

Frazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black chu...

When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is te...

In her commentary on the book of Exodus—the stories of slavery and liberation, the burning bush, the revelation at Sinai, the golden calf, the shat...

In this literary masterpiece, one of the twentieth century’s most significant writers reflects on his life before and after the Holocaust, merging ...

In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Wes...

“Excuse me, are you Jewish?” With these words, the relentlessly cheerful, ideologically driven emissaries of Chabad-Lubavitch approach perfect stra...

Based on actual events, a gripping novel of sex, love, history and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandatory Palestine, by the acclaimed author...

Based on actual events, a gripping novel of sex, love, history and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandatory Palestine, by the acclaimed author...

The year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse hi...

Part of the Jewish Encounters seriesThe first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, the newspaper of Yidd...

This landmark anthology brings together some of the best stories written in the last thirty years by and about American Jews. Saul Bellow tells a b...

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the sto...

"If the Coen brothers ever ventured beyond the United States for their films, they would find ample material in this novel."--The New York Times Bo...

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Trial: Three stories he published in his lifetime, including his best-...

When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoev...

A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contribution...

Elie Wiesel’s heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song, accompanied by magnificent full-color illustrations b...