Discover the Secrets to Jewish Cooking!
Now you can use a practical, step-by-step guide to achieve the Delicious dishes you’ve always dreamed of.
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sauces and forcemeat
fish
meats and poultry cooked in various ways
vegetables, omelettes, [...]

Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler’s War and Stalin’s Peace by Masha Gessen, Dial Press Trade Paperback, December 30, 2008
In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. One, a Polish-born woman from Bialystok, where virtually the entire Jewish community would soon [...]

Divorced plus Cat is a hilarious short stories compilation written from the point of view of a young divorce’ who finds himself returning to the “meat market” at 28, after two years of marriage.
In first person, full of self humor and wit, he tells his stories of strange women and unbelievable situations. Although more often [...]

“The Chassidic Dimension”, Festivals and commemo- rative  days based on the talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson.
To experience the yearly cycle of Jewish festivals and commemorative days through the eyes of the Lubavitcher Rebbe is to be drawn into a most beautiful and exalted world - a world in which the significance [...]

Judah Hallevi’s Kitab al Khazari translated by Hartwig Hirschfeld – this work was originally written in Arabic.
(Kitab al-Ḥujjah wal-Dalil fi Nuṣr al-Din al-Dhalil, كتاب الحجة و الدليل في نصرة الدين الذليل (known in the Hebrew translation of Judah ibn Tibbon by the title Sefer ha-Kuzari)
A classic of  Medieval Jewish philosophy,  set in a legendary (but historical) central Asian kingdom.
Framed [...]

“History of  Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy” by Isaac Husik - No excuse is needed for presenting to the English reader a History of  Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy. The English language,  poor enough in books on Jewish history and literature, can boast of  scarcely anything at all in the domain of  Jewish Philosophy.  The  Jewish  Encyclopedia has no article [...]

“The Sunflower” by Simon Wiesenthal,  Schocken,  December 18,  2008
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to – and obtain absolution from [...]

“Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the 21st Century” by Simcha Weinstein – The once revolutionary, understated “Jew-ish” and “Israel-lite” flavor of Seinfeld has been replaced by a brutal matter-of-factness that would make earlier generation cringe.
Your primer to the ever-changing face of Jewish comedy at the dawn of the 21st century: the new faces, their outrageous [...]

Burnt Bread and Chutney:  Growing Up Between Cultures – A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Childhood by Carmit Delman,  One World/Ballantine, March 12, 2009

“From the outside, no matter what the gradations of my mixed heritage, the shadow of Indian brown in my skin caused others to automatically perceive me as Hindu or Muslim. . .  Still, [...]

Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy by David Mamet and Lawrence Kushner, Schocken, September 9 2009
In the ancient Jewish practice of the kavannah (a meditation designed to focus one’s heart on its spiritual goal), Lawrence Kushner and David Mamet offer their own reactions to key verses from each week’s Torah [...]

Fatelessness, Imre Kertesz, Vintage, December 18, 2007
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of  Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz.
He does not understand the reason for his fate.  He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish.  And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack [...]

Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier, Vintage, November 18, 2009
Winner of the 1998  National Jewish Book Award  ”An astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity; its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic benefit to readers,  Jewish and gentile.” — The New York Times Book Review.
Children have obligations to their parents: the Talmud says “one must honor him [...]