Don’t miss these books this season from the Jewish Publication Society!
From Gods to God
by Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch, translated by Valerie Zakovitch
The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret…
From Gods to God is a provocative examination and recovery of the ancient myths and legends that the Bible transformed, buried, or changed in order to fit a monotheistic worldview.
The Life of Glückel of
Hameln translated by Beth-Zion Abrahams
This is the only English translation of Gluumlckel’s story from the original Yiddish and is widely considered the most accurate and complete translation available. It was out of print for many years until this JPS edition…
The volume also includes an introduction by Beth-Zion Abrahams that fills in the background of Gluumlckel’s life and tells how she came to write her memoir.
We Are Children Just
the Same translated from the Czech by R. Elizabeth Novak, edited by Paul R.
Wilson
From 1942 to 1944, a group of thirteen- to fifteen-year-old Jewish boys secretly produced a weekly magazine called Vedem (In the Lead) at the model concentration camp, Theresienstadt (“Terezín” in Czech)…
We Are Children Just the Same is a collection of writing and art from the secret magazine Vedem, written by the Jewish boys of Terezín during the Holocaust with a new preface and epilogue.
Seasons of Our Joy
by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow
Circling the Jewish calendar from Rosh Hashanah to Tisha B’Av, this lively, accessible guide provides rituals, recipes, songs, prayers, and suggestions for new approaches to holiday observance. Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow explores the meaning of each holiday in relation to the history of the Jewish people and individual spirituality, examines how the place of each holiday in the cycle of the moon and the changing seasons affects the mood of the day, and suggests ritual and spiritual ways to prepare for each festival.
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