“We Are Jews Again” by Yuli Kosharovsky
We Are Jews Again by author and activist Yuli Kosharovsky has been recently translated from Russian into English. It revolves around Jewish activism in the Soviet Union, and is a detailed account of the stories...
Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism, by Daniel Kupfert Heller
On New Year’s Day 1929, in one of Europe’s great capital cities, and to the sound of trumpets and drums, hundreds of young people in uniform marched to an imposing place of worship, there...
The Genius of Judaism, by Bernard-Henri Lévy and Steven B. Kennedy
For more than four decades, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a singular figure on the world stage—one of the great moral voices of our time. Now Europe's foremost philosopher and activist confronts his spiritual roots...
The Rabin Memoirs,
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in November of 1995—one year after he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Yasir Arafat—sent shock waves around the world. Known as both a man of war and of...
Who Will Lead Us? The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America by Samuel...
Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily...
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, by Captain Witold Pilecki
A new book, “The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery ” (Aquila Polonica: 2012), documents, in his own words, Pilecki’s remarkable exploits, and I can’t think of a better gift to give yourself for Khanukah.
Pilecki was...
« Les intellectuels juifs de 1945 à nos jours», Sandrine Szwarc
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On connaît ma signature dans l’hebdomadaire « Actualité Juive » pour lequel je dirige les pages culturelles et régionales depuis plusieurs années. Mais on sait moins que je...
Yiddish-English Dictionary
The League for Yiddish is pleased to announce that we are now selling the newly published Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary. Editors-in chief – Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner; associate editors – Barry Goldstein and Yankl...
Janet Benton Nods to Jewish Family History, Sexism in New Novel
It’s 1883 in Philadelphia and you are a 23-year-old pregnant woman, turned away by your family, shunned from your community and abandoned by your fiance.
Where do you go?
At that time, there weren’t many places...
New Book/CD to learn Yiddish in a fun way
If a language is the key to knowledge and to communicate and understand a culture, idioms are the key to their heart.
In these two books by Chaim Werdyger “YIDDISH IN 10 LESSONS” and “500...