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"This is an ingenious and fascinating reading of Freud's response to Signorelli's frescoes at Orvieto. It is also a meditation on Jewish identity, and on masculinity, memory, and the power of the image. It is filled with intelligence, wit, and clear-eyed...

This translation of the Memorial or Yizkor Book for the Jewish Community of Radzyn Poland. It contains first-hand accounts of rich life in community before the Shoah. There are eyewitness accounts of the murders of the Jews of Radzyn in the Holocaust .

The Jewish community in Radzyn Podlaski located in the Lublin district of Poland can be dated back to the 16th century. In 1827 there were 875 Jews in the town and in 1921 more than half of the total 4,833 population was Jewish. The Jewish congregation of the Shtetl consisted mainly of...

Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for centuries, and he synthesizes the most current research to describe the daily encounters that enabled both societies to appreciate common artistic values.

Detailing the transmission...

Following World War Two, the surviving Jews of Eastern Europe, especially Poland, felt insecure and threatened. The Shoah survivors that returned from the labor and concentration camps and those that returned from Russia began to disappear without a trace. No papers, no visas, no passports and yet thousands moved mainly to Czechoslovakia and onwards to Germany and Austria. I was amongst those Polish Jews who left Poland without leaving a trace.

I was always wondering who organized, financed, and transported us from Poland to Central Europe. There was no Jewish government or Agency...

"The Butcher's Daughter" has been short-listed for the prestigious 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize.

What was it like to hide with your family in the dense forests of Poland for two long years, as Mameh did, living in a hole in the ground, while alert, always alert, to the sounds of Nazis and their dogs?

How was it to be both hunter and hunted, as Tateh was, taking up arms, bartering for and stealing food, fighting for another day of life, wounded and recovering, while protecting others living in the forest-- the old, the infirm, the children.

And what was it like...

Le Ari dEbordait de Torah, il Etait expert dans les Ecrits, la Michna, Le Talmoud, Midrash, Maaseh Bereshit et Maaseh Merkavah. Sur tous les diffErents niveaux de prophEtie, leurs dEtails et de quel niveau les prophEtes avaient leurs rEvElations. Il comprenait le sifflement des arbres, de l'herbe et des pierres, le langage des oiseaux et d'autres animaux, les conversations des anges, le scintillement d'une bougie. Il pouvait lire les lignes de la main ou du visage de la maniEre dEcrite dans le Zohar (2:74b). Il pouvait discerner tout ce qu'un individu avait fait et voir ce qu'il aller...

This is the saga of the underground Jewish emigration from Morocco, which sent hundreds of thousands of Moroccan Jews who had been persecuted under Islam for centuries, onto illegal ships.

The Jews faced stormy seas and an uncertain future in their valiant attempts to escape from the authorities forbidding their emigration, risking their lives for the dream of reaching the hopeful shores of nascent Israel.

In one of those attempts, the ship "Pisces" sank off the coast of Morocco, taking with it 45 souls, including entire families who were never to reach their destination.

In this collection, not only are all the dead holy, but all the living as well, including "the one-legged veteran, the toddler with doll and comb." There are echoes of those who perished in the Holocaust and those still laboring to make a life in the modern American landscape. In Levy's tightly crafted poems, we glimpse what is both familiar and human: teachers, immigrant brides, a lost father's shirts and ties, the sidekick brother, the dying mother. The message is clear and powerful: "You must remember."

-- John Jeffire, author of Motown Burning and Shoveling Snow in...

The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism

This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement's leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world.

Hasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on...