Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature
An interesting and gripping account of the difficulties faced by many Central European intellectuals, Jews, and opponents in escaping Nazism. Many fled at the beginning, with Hitler’s rise to power in 1933...
Judaism
My Glorious Brothers
The story of the Maccabees revolves around the rebellion against the Seleucid rule of Antiochus IV, who sought to eradicate Jewish religious practices and impose pagan worship. Mattathias, the family...
Daniel Deronda
It is a long, profound novel of great erudition, mainly set in London. The author reflects on the psychology and thoughts of each character, contrasts interlocutors while criticizing hypocrisy in general,...
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A story about the hundred years of war against the Palestinians, told by the leading American historian of the Middle East through crucial events and family history. In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of...
The chosen
It describes the life of two 15-year-old friends during World War II in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brookling. Danny wants to be a rabbi like his father, and Reuven, a secularized Jew, wants to be a...
Salvation is from the jews
Based on Jesus’ words to the Samaritan woman ‘Salvation is from the Jews’ (John 4:22), the book traces the role of Judaism and the Jewish people in God's plan for the salvation of mankind, from Abraham...
God in Search of Man. A Philosophy of Judaism
E' un libro stimolante, benché impegnativo. L'autore è nato in una famiglia polacca di capi hassidim, laureato in filosofia a Berlino e successore di Martin Buber nella cattedra di Francoforte, poi emigrato...