For his fifth birthday, Avi gets a magical toy car with the number 613, the symbol of the various kinds of good deeds listed in Jewish law, painted on it, and discovers that the car will take him to p
He came penniless to the United States after surviving the Holocaust Hart Hasten rose to the top levels of finance and industry. He became an integral part of his community at large, not only giving o
In this memoir, Nissel recounts how she grew up as a child of Holocaust survivors in Vienna, in a collection of short stories tracing her family history, from the lives of her grandparents and parents
From pre-Hitler Germany to Kristallnacht, a lastminute escape from the Holocaust, and on to a life on three continents, this book catalogs the experiences of one Jewish family as the events of the twe
There is no lack of books for Orthodox Jews on the laws of family purity, and there is no lack of secular sex manuals, yet there has never been a book that attempted to be a sexual manual for Orthodox
Here, for the first time, is the complete correspondence between Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar el-Sadat as they wrestled with what would become their Nobel Peace P
A retired Chicago Jewish educator relates true stories of how Jews have been perceived, treated, and yet often thrived despite intolerance throughout history. While it is well-known that the Merchant
Describes the life of the Hollywood personality who led a double life as a spy for Israel involved in secret negotiations for that country's nuclear arsenal while he was working as a Hollywood produce
"Over 500,000 Jews fought under the Soviet banner in World War Two, of which an approximate 40 percent gave their lives – the highest percentage of all the nations of the Soviet Union and among all th
