The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Translated by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4244-7 (0-8052-4244-9)

From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.

The... Read more >

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Written by Edward Kritzler

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1952-4 (0-7679-1952-1)

In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them... Read more >

Soul of Wood

Written by Jakov Lind
Translated by Ralph Manheim
Introduction by Michael Kruger

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-330-5 (1-59017-330-9)

Jakov Lind’s Soul of Wood brought its author immediate fame when it was published in Germany in 1962, earning him a reputation as one of the most boldly imaginative postwar German writers. In the title novella and six stories here, Lind deals masterfully with a world of horror through fantasy, paradox... Read more >

Gertruda's Oath
A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Written by Ram Oren
Translated by Barbara Harshav

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52718-7 (0-385-52718-7)

Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.

Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old... Read more >

The New Bantam-Megiddo Hebrew & English Dictionary, Revised

Written by Dr. Sivan Reuven and Dr. Edward A. Levenston

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-59223-8 (0-553-59223-8)

•Clear
• Precise
• Easy to use

The convenient, comprehensive, popular one-volume English/ Hebrew, Hebrew/English Dictionary
Now updated for the first time in thirty-five years
Thousands of new words in science, technology, and culture


•Tables of English irregular verbs
•Tables of the Hebrew noun and all forms of the Hebrew verb Read more >

Rashi

Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4254-6 (0-8052-4254-6)

From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.

Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged... Read more >