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The Cantonists
Based on memoirs of former Cantonists and their contemporaries, describes the fate of Jewish servicemen in the Russian army during the rule of Nicholas I, before 1855. Discusses the introduction of the Cantonist system in 1827, the abduction of Jewish children, and the role played in this by Jewish community leaders. Dwells on the conversion of the Jewish conscripts to Christianity; in many cases the conversions were forced. Presents stories of some former Cantonists, adapted from memoirs published in Russian or Yiddish or found in manuscripts in archives.
You are what You Hate
Enemies hold fallen slivers of our souls, estranged sparks that we do not recognize as pieces of our very own selves. They have chosen us as their opponents because they are trying, in their deluded way, to connect back to their root, which really is us. The spark of ourselves inside the enemy must be recovered...
It Was Your Branch
A historical novel set in 16th-century France involving Mary Stuart and inter-religious plots
Connecting the Dates
"What is the relationship of the Jewish Holidays to their Fast Days? How do Jewish ritual practices - circumcision, tefillin, prayer - express the underlying link between the individual's personal life cycle and the life cycle of the Nation? Steven Ettinger presents the major events in the lives of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, and connects them to the core of the Jewish life cycle.
Kaddishel
Aharon Golub is the kaddishel for his family - the only son upon whose shoulders falls the responsibility to recite the prayer for the dead, the Kaddish, for his parents. And as the kaddishel, he honors his parents by remembering both the joys of his early childhood in Ludvipol and the hatred that sought to destroy Ludvipol, and his childhood. Aharon bears the burden of an entire generation of children who made promises to their parents, promises that are relived at every Yahrzeit, every anniversary of the death of their parents: Never to bask in the luxury of forgetting.
The Modest Genius
Rabbi Yehoshua Aisek Shapira lived in the 19th century and was the great-grandson of Rabbi Luria, the famed Kabbalist of Safed. Rabbi Aisel Slonimer, as he was known, spent most of his rabbinic life in Slonim, in the Grodno district of Byelorussia, He was called Harif (Sharp) because of his prodigious memory and his sharp tongue. His witticisms and clever retorts are legendary. Rabbi Aisel wrote many of his major works in Slonim, including Emek Yehoshua and Nahlat Yehoshua which encompass his responsa (questions and answers to problems of his day); Noam Yerushalmi, his commentary and glosses on the Jerusalem Talmud; and Sefat HaNahal and Ibbei HaNahal which contain many of his sermons.
A Widow's Tale
This memoir details the struggles of a young mother, who was left widowed with 9 children. Her eventual re-marriage to a widower, also with 9 children creates a host of funny and tense situations.
DNA & Tradition
Did the Twelve Tribes of Israel really exist? Are the scattered groups of modern Jews really the direct descendants of the ancient Hebrews of the Bible? This extraordinary book chronicles the latest discoveries in the cutting-edge field of Molecular Population Genetics that add empirical evidence and scientific confirmation to Biblical tradition.
Last Letters from the Shoah
Presents last letters written by those about to be killed during the Holocaust, some filled with hope and aspirations despite the circumstances, some with concerns for their own spiritual continuity through their children's survival
Scuds
Hanna Kalter was a typical teenager when the Nazis came to power in Germany. But on Kristellnacht, when mobs destroyed the synagogue and Jewish property, and ransacked her home, Hanna's parents shipped her and her sister Ruth off to safety in free Holland on the Kindertransport. Soon, the Nazi's conquered Holland and the Gestapo moved in next door. But Hanna was determined to live her life ? to get an education, learn a skill, make friends, find a boyfriend. She didn't lose her cool, even when she and her sister were deported to a concentration camp. And, for years, she waited for her parents to send for her, so the family could be reunited in safety.
