Seeking the Fabled City - The Canadian Jewish Experience by Allan Levine
59.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In this definitive and meticulously researched account of the Jewish experience in Canada, award-winning and critically acclaimed author Allan Levine documents a story that is rich, accessible, often surprising, and epic in its scope. Relying on an abundance of primary sources and first-hand documentati ...Show more
Someday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskin
19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: 9 YA
From the author of Blind, a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story set during World War II in Shanghai, one of the only places Jews without visas could find refuge.Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is 15 when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her younger sister, ...Show more
Prince of the Press - How One Collector Built History's Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library by Joshua Teplitsky
51.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
The story of one of the largest collections of Jewish books, and the man who used his collection to cultivate power, prestige, and political influence David Oppenheim (1664-1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all ...Show more
On The Banks Of Plum Creek (The Little House Books #4) by LAURA INGALLS WILDER
7.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Little House Ser.
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass win ...Show more
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith & Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr
44.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber An authority on the twentieth‑century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Th ...Show more
Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family Treasury by Ilene Cooper
35.00 AUD
Category: Childrens
For the first time, the richness of the Jewish tradition is combined with lavish and intriguing artworks from the collection of The Jewish Museum in New York City to produce a treasury that is ideal for the entire family. The story of the Jewish people goes back thousands of years. And every year is pun ...Show more
A Survivors' Haggadah by Yosef Dov Sheinson; Saul Touster (Editor, Introduction by); Miklos Adler (Illustrator)
110.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
In the winter of 1945-1946, Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps around Munich created an extraordinary illustrated haggadah in preparation for the first Passover after liberation. For five decades this unique book was all but forgotten. Now JPS is proud to issue a facsimile edition, previousl ...Show more
One Hundred Miracles - A Memoir of Music and Survival by Zuzana Ruzicková; Wendy Holden
32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: very good
The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ružicková, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. Zuzana Ružicková grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful, melodic childhood was torn apart when, in 1939, the Nazis invaded. Uprooted from ...Show more
Jerusalem - City of the Book by Merav Mack; Benjamin Balint; Frédéric Brenner
41.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ide ...Show more
The Jews of San Nicandro by John Davis
89.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Not many people know of the utterly extraordinary events that took place in a humble southern Italian town in the first half of the twentieth century--and those who do have struggled to explain them. In the late 1920s, a crippled shoemaker had a vision where God called upon him to bring the Jewish faith ...Show more
Lombard Haggadah by Milvia Bollati; Marc Michael Epstein; Flora Cassen
145.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
Accompanying an exhibition at Les Enluminures, New York, this scholarly book includes chapters on the art, iconography, and historical context of a remarkable medieval manuscript: a Haggadah with seventy-five watercolor paintings created in the circle of the famous artist Giovannino de' Grassi (d. 1398) ...Show more