Prof. Jack Jacobs discusses “Jews and the Left”
JEWS AND THE LEFT RECONSIDERED
Thursday, June 22 | 7:00pm
Admission: Free
Lecture and Book Launch
In the last decades of the 19th century, and the first decades of the 20th, Jews held highly visible positions in a...
“The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook”. Great book, unfortunately they left the Yiddish out!
Beautifully translated for a new generation of devotees of delicious and healthy eating: a groundbreaking, mouthwatering vegetarian cookbook originally published in Yiddish in pre–World War II Vilna and miraculously rediscovered more than half a...
Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in Latin America, by...
Peoples of the Earth employs a comparative history of ethno-nationalism to examine Indian activism and its challenges to the political, social and economic status quo in the countries of Central and South America.
It explores...
Operation Paperclip, The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America, by Annie...
“As comprehensive as it is critical, this latest exposé from Jacobsen is perhaps her most important work to date….Jacobsen persuasively shows that it in fact happened and aptly frames the dilemma….Rife with hypocrisy, lies,...
Recorded Yiddish Books from the Sami Rohr Collection
Der 'Yiddish Book Center' fun Amherst, Massachusets (noent tzu di shtot Boston), hobn mir gebetn aykh ibertzugebn vegn dem oysfarkoif fun IDISHE AUDIO-BIJER mit verk fun Sholem Ash; I.B. Zinger; Rojl Aoyerbaj; I.L.Peretz; Sholem...
Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology, by Will Herberg
The very title of this book arouses suspicion. The author, who claims to be writing a treatise on sociology, is far from being a professional sociologist. On top of this, he is an enthusiastic...
Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam, by David G....
A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verve and extraordinary access...
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir, by Telford Taylor
In 1945, the Allied nations agreed on a judicial process, rather than summary execution, to determine the fate of the Nazis following the end of World War II. Held in Nuremberg, the ceremonial birthplace...
“Just Revenge” by Alan M. Dershowitz
“Just Revenge” confronts one of the most difficult questions of legal and moral theory: Is revenge ever justified? Although it never conclusively decides this question, the novel does take the reader through a labyrinth...
Parents and children already love the ‘The Hogwarts Haggadah’
Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg hopes you’ll use his latest novel to teach your child about Passover.
The book? “The Hogwarts Haggadah,” a guide to the upcoming Jewish holiday that uses character studies of Harry Potter to...