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From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine
The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings
German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. Until now, attention was focused on Mendelssohn's German works-such as his groundbreaking Jerusalem-which have...
From Babel to Dragomans
Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal), as "a towering figure among...
Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
For more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously fashioned the philosopher as their anti-Semitic precursor, while in the...
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz
'You are no longer a number' Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity,...
Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
In the 13th century Yiddish language and culture began to spread from the Rhineland and Bavaria slowly east into Austria, Bohemia and Moravia, then to Poland and Lithuania and finally...
The Boy With The Star Tattoo: A Novel
From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to...
Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude
"Nicole Avant gives a raw and courageous look into how she found the light in her darkest moment. She reminds us that grief is different for everyone, and we have...
Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865
Author: Howard B. RockFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 658g, 368 pagesPublished: New York University Press, United States, 2015Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York...
Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans
Author: Murat GulFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 671g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies...
Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865
Author: Howard B. RockFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 658g, 368 pagesPublished: New York University Press, United States, 2015Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken
Author: Nita TyndallFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 236g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "A heartbreaking and bittersweet novel about the need for queer joy even in the...
Jameela Green Ruins Everything
Author: Zarqa NawazFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 209g, 288 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "I think we got off on the wrong foot, with you telling me I...
The Movement: how far will she go to make herself heard?
'Powerful and profound' Daisy Buchanan'Breathtakingly original... a searing examination of the modern world and its sensibilities' Imran Mahmood__With words come power. But do you speak out or shut up? Everywhere...