Panorama
A Novel
Written by H. G. Adler
Afterword by Peter Demetz
Translated by Peter Filkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8060-8 (0-8129-8060-3)

Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct vignettes, Panorama is a portrait of a place and... Read more >

Hours of Devotion
Fanny Neuda's Book of Prayers for Jewish Women
Written by Dinah Berland

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4245-4 (0-8052-4245-7)

Written in the nineteenth century, rediscovered in the twenty-first, timeless in its wisdom and beauty, Hours of Devotion by Fanny Neuda, (the daughter of a Moravian rabbi), was the first full-length book of Jewish prayers written by a woman for women. In her moving introduction to this volume—the first edition of... Read more >

Cultures of the Jews
A New History
Written by David Biale

Format: Hardcover, 1232 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4131-0 (0-8052-4131-0)

Who are "The Jews"? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to other cultures of their neighbors?

To address these... Read more >

The Bronfman Haggadah

Written by Edgar M. Bronfman
Illustrated by Jan Aronson

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3968-1 (0-8478-3968-0)

An illustrated contemporary Haggadah for the Passover Seder, as interpreted by the world-renowned philanthropist and Jewish leader Edgar M. Bronfman. Edgar Bronfman’s text continues the traditional commandment to retell the Exodus story of slavery and freedom for future generations. The Haggadah teaches people about Judaism with a fresh perspective while helping... Read more >

The Gifts of the Jews
How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
Written by Thomas Cahill

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 17, 1999
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48249-3 (0-385-48249-3)

In his concise, readable treatise on the Jews and their enormous impact on history and civilization, Cahill recreates the philosophical and religious matrix of the ancient world and shows how the ancient Jews burst upon the stage with a completely new view. He explains the historical importance of key Biblical figures... Read more >

Russ & Daughters
Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Written by Mark Russ Federman
Foreword by Calvin Trillin

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4294-2 (0-8052-4294-5)

The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal herring, and silken chopped liver” (The New York Times... Read more >

Kosher Nation
Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority
Written by Sue Fishkoff

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4265-2 (0-8052-4265-1)

Kosher? That means the rabbi blessed it, right? Not exactly. In this captivating account of a Bible-based practice that has grown into a multibillions-dollar industry, journalist Sue Fishkoff travels throughout America and to Shanghai, China, to find out who eats kosher food, who produces it, who is responsible for its certification... Read more >

After Long Silence

Written by Helen Fremont

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: January 11, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33370-2 (0-385-33370-6)

Driven to uncover their roots, Fremont and her sister pieced together an astonishing story: of Siberian Gulags and Italian royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. After Long Silence is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about families; and about lies people use, foolish or wise, to protect themselves... Read more >

Home to Stay
One American Family's Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel
Written by Daniel Gordis

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4959-2 (1-4000-4959-8)

In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, during which time Daniel would be a Fellow at the Mandel Institute in Jerusalem. This was a euphoric time in Israel. The economy was booming, and peace... Read more >

Journey from the Land of No
A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Written by Roya Hakakian

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-609-81030-9 (0-609-81030-8)

"Journey From the Land of No is an immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir. Its author begins what one may prophesy as a major literary career."
—Harold Bloom

This is an elegantly written memoir of a young Iranian-American poet and journalist about growing up in Iran during the revolution.

Roya Hakakian was raised... Read more >

One People, Two Worlds
A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Them
Written by Ammiel Hirsch and Yaakov Yosef Reinman

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1140-5 (0-8052-1140-3)

After being introduced by a mutual friend in the winter of 2000, Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch and Orthodox Rabbi Yosef Reinman embarked on an unprecedented eighteen-month e-mail correspondence on the fundamental principles of Jewish faith and practice. What resulted is this book: an honest, intelligent, no-holds-barred discussion of virtually every “hot... Read more >

The Kabbalah Reader
A Sourcebook of Visionary Judaism
Written by Edward Hoffman
Foreword by Arthur Kurzweil

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Trumpeter
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-656-7 (1-59030-656-2)

This comprehensive and accessible entrée into the world of Kabbalah covers 1,600 years of Jewish mystical thought, and features a variety of thinkers–from the renowned to the obscure–unavailable in any other volume. It’s a fresh and contemporary take on an ancient tradition compiled by a clinical psychologist who is also a... Read more >

Keep Your Wives Away from Them
Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires
Edited by Miryam Kabakov

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-879-0 (1-55643-879-6)

Reconciling queerness with religion has always been an enormous challenge. When the religion is Orthodox Judaism, the task is even more daunting. This anthology takes on that challenge by giving voice to genderqueer Jewish women who were once silenced–and effectively rendered invisible–by their faith. Keep Your Wives Away from Them tells... Read more >

The Liberator
One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
Written by Alex Kershaw

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-88799-3 (0-307-88799-5)

Forthcoming October 30, 2012. Professors: To request a complimentary advance reader's copy, email RHAcademic@randomhouse.com (Limited Supply Available)
The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over... Read more >

A Fine Romance
Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
Written by David Lehman

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4250-8 (0-8052-4250-3)

In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook—the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies—and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews.

An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears... Read more >

Jews in Britain

Written by Michael Leventhal

Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-1230-2 (0-7478-1230-6)

The Jewish community is the oldest ethnic minority in the country. This book tells the epic story of Jews in Britain over a thousand years. Many came as wealthy traders - others as desperate refugees. Sometimes they were feared and had to lead secret lives. At other times they stood shoulder... Read more >

A Bintel Brief
Sixty Years of
Written by Isaac Metzker

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 21, 1990
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0980-8 (0-8052-0980-8)

For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. The column also gave them a forum for seeking advice and support regarding everything from family squabbles to heart wrenching spiritual dilemmas to... 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: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
On Sale: August 3, 2010
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 978-0-385-52719-4 (0-385-52719-5)

"Written with impressive talent and suspense, this true story will appeal to many." --Elie Wiesel

Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his business affairs, travels to France... Read more >

Anti-Semite and Jew
An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1047-7 (0-8052-1047-4)

Sartre's classic portrait of both anti-Semite and Jew, written by a non-Jew and from a non-Jewish point of view, is a "fervent and brilliant challenge to anti-Semitism."
--The New York Times

"Sartre's account of anti-Semitism is an acknowledged classic, based in large measure on assimilated Jews whom he personally knew. Michael Walzer's essay... Read more >

The Balfour Declaration
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Written by Jonathan Schneer

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7603-8 (0-8129-7603-7)

Winner, 2010 National Jewish Book Award (Writing Based on Archival Material)

Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be... Read more >

A Guide to Jewish Prayer

Written by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 5, 2002
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1147-4 (0-8052-1147-0)

From the origins and meaning of prayer to a step-by-step explanation of the daily services, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz answers many of the questions likely to arise about Jewish prayer. Here are chapters on daily prayer; Sabbath prayer; prayer services for the holidays; the yearly cycle of synagogue Bible readings; the history... Read more >

A Code of Jewish Ethics: Volume 1
You Shall Be Holy
Written by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
Publisher: Harmony
On Sale: March 7, 2006
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4835-9 (1-4000-4835-4)

**Winner--Jewish Book of the Year Award, Everett Family Foundation, Jewish Book Council

A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy is the initial volume of the first major code of Jewish ethics to be written in the English language. It is a monumental work on the vital topic of... Read more >

Conversations with Elie Wiesel

Written by Elie Wiesel and Richard D. Heffner

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1141-2 (0-8052-1141-1)

Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life’s timeless questions.

In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner—American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor—Elie Wiesel covers... Read more >

Open Heart

Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Marion Wiesel

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-96184-6 (0-307-96184-2)

A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.

Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images, faces and questions flash through his mind... Read more >

Marc Chagall

Written by Jonathan Wilson

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4201-0 (0-8052-4201-5)

Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall’s work addresses these transforming events, but his ambivalence about his role as a Jewish artist adds an... Read more >