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You or Someone Like You: A Novel

by Chandler Burr

Published: 2009-06-03

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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“Chandler Burr’s challenging first novel is many things: a glimpse into Hollywood culture, an argument about religious identity, a plea for the necessity of literature. This is a roman that needs no clefs.” —Washington Post< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> New York Magazine calls You or Someone Like You, “The h...

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Have You No Shame?: And Other Regrettable Stories

by Rachel Shukert

Published: 2008-04-29

Paperback: 272 pages

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Growing up in white-bread Omaha, Nebraska, Rachel Shukert was one of thirty-seven students (circa 1990) in Nebraska’s only Jewish elementary school. She spent her days dreaming of a fantasy Aryan boyfriend named Chris McPresbyterian, a tall blond god whose family spoke softly in public a...

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The Gallery of Vanished Husbands

by Natasha Solomons

Published: 2013-08-27

Paperback: 352 pages

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A moving story of family and a life-long love affair in 1950s London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford. London, 1958. It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, she ­...

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We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, a Documentary History

by Gary Phillip Zola

Published: 2014-03-21

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Over the course of American history, Jews have held many American leaders in high esteem, but they maintain a unique emotional bond with Abraham Lincoln. From the time of his presidency to the present day, American Jews have persistently viewed Lincoln as one of their own, casting him as a...

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The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter

by Linda Grant

Published: 2010-04-20

Paperback: 224 pages

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“You can’t have depths without surfaces,” says Linda Grant in her lively and provocative new book, The thoughtful Dresser, a thinking woman’s guide to what we wear. For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain, empty-headed women. Yet, cl...

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Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past

by Yehuda Kurtzer

Published: 2012-04-10

Paperback: 184 pages

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Modern Jews tend to relate to the past through “history,” which relies on empirical demonstration and rational thought, rather than through “memory,” which relies on the non-rational architectures of mythology. By now “history” has surpassed “memory” as a means of relating ...

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Bummy Davis vs Murder, Inc.

by Ron Ross

Published: 2014-07-11

Paperback: 436 pages

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BUMMY DAVIS VS. MURDER, INC. The life of Al “Bummy” Davis was so intricately interwoven with a time, a place and a unique phenomenon, that he became the personification of a slice of history. His is the story of an immigrant Jewish community whose old country fears, values and traditions served as...

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Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

by Roger Horowitz

Published: 2018-05-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Kosher USA follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. It recounts how iconic products such as Coca-Cola and Jell-O tried to become kosher; the contentious debates among rabbis over the incorporation of modern science into Jewish law; how Manis...

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1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls

by Winston Groom

Published: 2007-12-01

Kindle Edition: 516 pages

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America’s first year in World War II, chronicled in this “page-turner” by the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump and The Generals (Publishers Weekly).   On December 7, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying n...

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Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Updated and Expanded

by Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman

Published: 2009-04-01

Paperback: 360 pages

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Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael Shermer...