"A memoir recounting the author's trip with his survivor father to Eastern Europe to locate the bridge where his uncle was killed on the way to Auschwitz"--

"Zionism began as a movement full of contradictions, between a pull to the past and a desire to forge a new future. Israel has become a place of fragmentation, between those who sanctify religious tradition and those who wish to escape its grasp. Now, a new middle ground is emerging between religious and secular Jews who want to engage with their heritage-without being restricted by it or losing it completely. In this incisive book, acclaimed author...

An accessible introduction to the many ways Jews understand Jewishness and identify themselves and their communities-throughout history and today. For everyone who wants to understand the varieties of Jewish identity, its boundaries and inclusions, this book explores the religious and historical understanding of what it has meant to be Jewish from ancient times to the present controversy over "Who is a Jew?" Beginning with the biblical period, it...

"In Israel to investigate a writer's murder, Hannah Groff unravels a knot involving the mafia, a Holocaust survivor and former mistress of American gangster Meyer Lansky, and her own father." --

"A guide to contemporary Judaism by law professor and public intellectual Noah Feldman"--

This book traces the transformation of Jewish life through the stories of seven communities. in each city, Tye focuses on a single family or congregation whose tale reflects the wider Community's history and current situation.