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The Stand-Up Guy
The Berkley Building Company's office closes on week-ends. So when Rose Shapiro arrives for work on Monday morning June 20, 1966, she has to unlock the door to gain entry. She finds her boss, Max Robbins-dead-the apparent victim of a heart attack. At the funeral home because bruises are found on Max's body, the Medical Examiner performs an autopsy. He opines that Max did die of a heart attack, but one caused by powerful blows to his solar plexus. So who killed Max? Crude, black-sheep son of real estate mogul, Sam Robbins, Max wasn't short of enemies. The police discover evidence that David Lev, Max's boyhood friend and lawyer was the last person to see Max alive. David, normally unflappable, borders on panic. He turns for help to his ex-mobster cousin, Jack Lerner, once head of Detroit's infamous Purple Gang, whose criminal activities teenaged David abhorred and which embarrassed him. With input from Chick Marcus, another childhood friend of David and Max, Jack makes the problem go away. Max's killer is never discovered. Thirty-eight years later, Chick, only survivor of the trio, eighty and frail, but with perfect recall tells us who killed Max and why.
Joe Rapoport, the Life of a Jewish Radical
Joe Rapoport's experiences span the past half-century of American radicalism from the trade union movement to the protests against the war in Vietnam. Through the author, Joe tells the story of his life -- growing up in the shtetl during the Russian Revolution, emigrating to America in 1920, organizing the knitting trade in New York City during the twenties and thirties, and joining the Jewish chicken ranching community in Petaluma, California, where he and his wife Sheba lived. Joe's inner struggle over how a Jew who believes in social justice should understand Israel, Palestine, and the Soviet Union is one of the most interesting sections of the book. The book reproduces evocative family and workplace photographs, as well as strike leaflets and other materials.
A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History
This reference examines the history of Jewish forenames and surnames, tracing the origin of each name and the changes that have occured over generations.
Becoming Eve
The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. She suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood to mainstream femininity-a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, her way of life. Powerful in the truths it reveals about biology, culture, faith, and identity, Becoming Eve poses the enduring question: How far will you go to become the person you were meant to be?
Jewish Currents
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Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present
Examining World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath through the lens of Central and Eastern European Jewish families
The Best Plays
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The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism
The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism presents a panoramic and comprehensive overview of the major aspects of Jewish life and culture, from the biblical period through to contemporary times. A collection of outstanding contributions from leading experts presents the latest scholarship on a range of questions relating to Jews, Jewish history, Judaism, folk practices, politics, economic structure, the relationship of Judaism to Christianity, and the manifold participation of Jews in general culture through various times and geographical locales. In addition, the book explores Jewish historiography and the lives of ordinary people, the achievements of Jewish women, and the sustained i...
