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Gay Block: Rescuers
A new, redesigned edition of Gay Block's classic photobook documenting those who risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Holocaust First published in 1992 to widespread acclaim, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust is a landmark photobook on the commemoration of the Holocaust. Featuring photograph portraits, archives and interviews, it was the first book (and exhibition) by Houston-born photographer Gay Block (born 1942); the exhibition has been seen in over 50 venues in the US and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Block spent more than three years traveling in eight countries, accompanied by rabbi and author Malka Drucker, documenting testimonies from more than 100 rescuers--people who risked their lives to rescue Jewish victims from the Holocaust. The stories range from those who saved one life to those who worked in the resistance and saved thousands, always with the threat of death and torture if they were discovered. This new edition features a complete redesign and new foreword by scholar of Jewish American art Samantha Baskind.
White Fire
"Since the beginning of time, women have been sustainers of spiritual communities--now, they're strengthening them in leadership roles." -- inside cover.
Jacob's Rescue
Based on a true story, and from the co-author of Rescuers, the courageous and vividly told story of one boy and the courageous family who risks everything to save him. Once Jacob Gutgeld lived with his family in a beautiful house in Warsaw, Poland. He went to school and played hide-and-seek in the woods with his friends. But everything changed the day the Nazi soldiers invaded in 1939. Suddenly it wasn't safe to be Jewish anymore.
Portraits of Jewish-American Heroes
From its beginnings, America, founded on religious freedom, has been a land of opportunity for Jews socially as well as spiritually. Here are profiles of twenty-one individuals who have enriched America and the lives of Americans through their achievements in such areas as science, sports, film making, and civil rights. An inspiring journey through more than two centuries of American Jewish history.
The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays
Recounts the history and rituals of ten Jewish holidays, including appropriate games, recipes, and songs.
Frida Kahlo
A detailed account of the often turbulent life and career of Mexico's most famous woman artist.
The Sea Monster's Secret
A young man proves himself to be resourceful and brave, despite the mockery of his nagging mother-in-law, when he wears the skin of the ferocious sea monster he has slain.
Bertha Alyce
This collection of Block's photographs (sections of which involve nudity) presents her complicated, and at times difficult, relationship with her mother, Bertha Alyce, and a mother-daughter quest for healing.
Women and Judaism
Contributors to Women and Judaism describe the many ways in which women are claiming a place in and changing the face of this ancient religion. "Women and Judaism," the editor writes, "carries an intention to do more than bring the reader new ideas to ponder. For Jewish women, it's a charge to claim and re-claim their rightful place in their tradition ... For non-Jewish sisters, we hope that it encourages you to bring change in your traditions as you learn of our effort to be counted as full members of an ancient spiritual community." In this all-encompassing exploration of Judaism for the modern woman, readers attend the first the Bat Mitzvah 70 years ago, hear an imagined response of bibli...
Embracing Wisdom
Here is a handbook for accessing the secrets of the second half of life. In the first half of life, we strive, work, achieve, compete, and accumulate. Will we do this until we die? Because we live in a world that worships youth-often disparaging aging (and our elders)-we have little imagination for embracing the possibilities that aging offers. Based upon the pioneering work of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Embracing Wisdom: Souring in the Second Half of Life (Revised Edition) presents aging as an opportunity on the frontier of human development, an opportunity to complete life successfully and leave a legacy of wisdom to future generations.
