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Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
From Abraham to Zaydee, and from ancient times to modern day, A is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet encompasses the history of Jewish traditions and customs and how they are practiced today. Following the alphabet, a poem identifies the letter topic while sidebar text provides background information. C could be the challah that my bubbe used to braid, or C could be the chicken soup, when I was sick she made, or chocolate coins on Chanukah we...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xii, 756 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a bold and moving book that is sure to spark heated debate, the novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church's battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has provoked in his own life as a Catholic. More than a chronicle of religion, this dark history is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture. The Church's failure...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old binding, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon Element hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. They go there. They cover Jews and money. Jews and power. Jews and privilege. Jews and white privilege. The Black and Jewish struggle. Emmanuel asks, Did Jews kill Jesus? To which Noa responds, "Why are Jewish people history's favorite scapegoat?" They unpack Judaism itself: Is it a religion, culture, a peoplehood, or a race? And: Are you antisemitic if you're anti-Zionist? The...
Author
Language
English
Description
When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of Reform Jews in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and explores the evolution of the social and cultural life of Reform Jews since the arrival of German Jews in the late nineteenth century. Highlights the founding of Shaarai Tov, now Temple Israel, one of the ten largest Reform congregations in the United States today. Includes black-and-white photographs.
9) Klezmer!
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language
English
Description
Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life!
When Eastern European Jewish immigrants bring their klezmer music with them to America, it takes on a rockin' new vibe, adding elements of Jazz borrowed from its new country. In the beautifully illustrated Klezmer!, a child makes an exciting music-filled visit to her grandparents' apartment in New York City, learning all about the evolution...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harold Kushner, a Jewish rabbi facing his own child's fatal illness, deftly guides us through the inadequacies of the traditional answers to the problem of evil, then provides a uniquely practical and compassionate answer that has appealed to millions of readers across all religious creeds.
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Celebrating Hanukkah with Nonna and Nonno in Florida is like a dream--picking oranges in the sun, dancing the salsa, playing in the waves at the beach, and eating Nonna's buñuelos stuffed with almonds and guava jelly." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile measure
1360L
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Normon Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. Demonstrating the diverse nature and ethnic origin of Jewish people, Solomon explores how the religion has developed in the 2,000 years since the days of the Bible.
This Very Short Introduction starts by outlining the basics of practical Judaism, including festivals, prayers, customs, and various sects - and goes on to consider how Judaism has responded...
14) Rosh Hashanah
Author
Series
Holidays volume set 2
Publisher
Abdo Kids Junior, an imprint of Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
310L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rosh Hashanah is a special holiday that celebrates the beginning of the Jewish New Year. Readers will learn that Jews celebrate by enjoying festive meals, eating symbolic foods like apples dipped in honey, attending synagogue services, and more" --
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
22 volumes : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
This book provides young readers with an overview of what it is like to work within a library and then profiles several careers based at an the library.
19) Hanukkah
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
300L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
It's time to celebrate Hanukkah! Light the menorah. Sing songs and eat tasty treats. During Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, Jews remember a war they won. This allowed them to freely practice their beliefs.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xiv, 272 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination-- and controversy-- than perhaps any other archaeological find. Collins sheds light on the bitter conflicts that have swirled around the scrolls, and sheds lights on their true significance for Jewish and Christian history.