Rabbi Yoselman of Rosheim


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The story of R' Yoselman, great defender of the Jewish people during the turbulent times of 16th century Germany. Revised, newly designed one-volume edition.




Akiva


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This breathtaking, historical novel tells the story of the life and times of the great sage, Rabbi Akiva. It is a classic literary tapestry woven with the details of life in Eretz Yisrael after the Destruction of the Second Temple. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this book will captivate and inspire all audiences. Rav Meir (Marcus) Lehmann's magnum opus, a favorite for generations of readers, is now presented in a newly translated and revised edition for contemporary readers to enjoy.







Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity


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For generations of German-speaking Jews, the works of Goethe and Schiller epitomized the world of European high culture, a realm that Jews actively participated in as both readers and consumers. Yet from the 1830s on, Jews writing in German also produced a vast corpus of popular fiction that was explicitly Jewish in content, audience, and function. Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity offers the first comprehensive investigation in English of this literature, which sought to navigate between tradition and modernity, between Jewish history and the German present, and between the fading walls of the ghetto and the promise of a new identity as members of a German bourgeoisie. This study examines the ways in which popular fiction assumed an unprecedented role in shaping Jewish identity during this period. It locates in nineteenth-century Germany a defining moment of the modern Jewish experience and the beginnings of a tradition of Jewish belles lettres that is in many ways still with us today.




Jewish Glimpses of Frankfurt


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Don Yosef Nasi


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A dramatization of the story of Don Yosef Nasi and his mother-in-law, Dona Gracia, marranos who rose to be among the most influential figures in Europe and Asia.




Year Book


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Shefford


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The amazing story of the evacuation of hundreds of Jewish British children, many of them recent refugees, to the countryside at the outbreak of WWII. There they found loving families and devoted teachers. There Dr. Judith Grunfeld, a"h, ran a school, and raised her own young family during these difficult times. With family reminiscences.




Codex Judaica


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