Sammy Spider's First Purim by Sylvia Rouss
19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: 3-6.
It's time for Purim and Sammy Spider wants to participate but his mother reminds him, Spiders don't celebrate holidays; spiders spin webs. This time Sammy's curiosity gets him stuck inside a grogger, spinning noisily among the beans. How will he escape.
Israel Has Moved by Diana Pinto
34.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
Israel has changed. The country was born in Europe's shadow, haunted by the Holocaust and inspired by the Enlightenment. But for Israelis today, Europe is hardly relevant, and the country's ties to the broader West, even to America, are fraying. Where is Israel heading? How do citizens of an increasingl ...Show more
Judaism (World Faiths) by Trevor Barnes
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: World Faiths
In today's world, where religious divides and cultural differences so often have tragic consequences, a sound understanding of the belief systems and practices of other peoples and cultures is essential. The four books in the World Faiths series: Christianity; Hinduism and Other Eastern Religions; Islam ...Show more
The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot by Gertrude Himmelfarb
21.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
In this title, a leading Victorian scholar unravels the mystery of George Eliot's final creation - "Daniel Deronda" - and of Eliot herself. It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been wr ...Show more
Megillat Esther by J.T. Waldman
35.00 AUD
Category: Judaica
In what may be the world's first religious, scholarly comic book, Waldman tells the epic tale of exile and redemption in graphic form. When Esther, a Jewish woman, is made Queen of Persia she must keep her identity hidden, all the while maneuvering to save her people from annihilation. This is a story f ...Show more
Anne Frank and Me by Cherie Bennett
12.95 AUD
Category: Childrens
In one moment Nicole Burns's life changes forever. The sound of gunfire at an Anne Frank exhibit, the panic, the crowd, and Nicole is no longer Nicole. Whiplashed through time and space, she wakes to find herself a privileged Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II. No more Interne ...Show more
Jodie's Passover Adventure by Anna Levine
26.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Young amateur archeologist Jodie invites her cousin Zach on a Passover adventure to explore Hezekiahs Tunnel in Jerusalem, the famous secret water tunnel. Sloshing through the long, creepy, dark, wet passage, they solve the riddle in the middle and find a shiny treasure!
Mystics,Mavericks,and Merry-makers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls by Stephanie Wellen Levine
33.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher with a desire for a high-powered career, Stephanie Wellen Levine provides a rare glimpse into the inner wo ...Show more
Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer
32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Yale Nota Bene S.
A study of the Holocaust, evaluating accepted views of its history and meaning. Yehuda Bauer offers his own interpretation of why the Holocaust occurred and how another can be prevented. He presents opinions on topics ranging from how Jews reacted to the murderous campaign against them to the relationsh ...Show more
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and My Fight for Freedom by Sam Pivnik
26.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two Ser.
Sam Pivnik's life story is a classic testimony of Holocaust survival. In 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, Sam Pivnik's life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampkommando where prisoners ...Show more
Alice's Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer (HB)
39.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
"How music provided hope in one of the world's darkest times--the inspirational life story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor" Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A talented pianist from a very early age, she became famous throughout Europe; but, as the Nazis rose to po ...Show more
Sammy Spider's First Shavuot by Sylvia Rouss
13.95 AUD
Category: Childrens
"What's a recipe?" Sammy Spider asks his mother as he watches Mrs. Shapiro make blintzes for Shavuot. As Sammy follows the holiday preparations, young readers will learn how the Torah, which was given on Shavuot, is also a "recipe for life."