This book explores the social, political and cultural aspects of Jewish history.

Examines the social and political history of the Jews of Miskolc - the third largest Jewish community in Hungary - and presents the wider transformation of Jewish identity during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than trying to fit Hungarian Jewry into a conventional Germano-centric taxonomy, this work places Hungarian Jews in the distinct contexts of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Danube basin.

This novel begins in 1939, among the Satmar Hasidim, an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect founded in nineteenth-century Hungary, and through the Holocaust and eventual family life in America, portrays the contradictions and compromises of Hasidic faith. An honorable mention for the Sophie Brodie Award for outstanding achievement in Jewish Literature.

Famous author Herman Wouk's ingenious latest work is a romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day.

The history and dramatic rescue of the Aleppo Codex. Praised by Torah scholars for centuries after its writing, the Codex passed through history until the 15th century when it was housed in the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, Syria. When the synagogue was burned in the 1947 pogrom, the codex was thought to be destroyed, lost forever. That is where its great mystery begins. Miraculously, a significant portion of the Crown of Aleppo survived the fire and was smuggled from the synagogue ruins to an unknown location-- presumably within the Aleppan Jewish community. Ten years later, the surviving pages of the codex were secretly brought to Israel and finally moved to their current location in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Learn more about the Aleppo Codex in this eciting book, and at the Ben-Zvi Institute's webpage at http://www.aleppocodex.org

In Yiddish, shtetl simply means "town." People now encounter the Jewish history of these towns through an array of cultural practices, including fiction, documentary photography, film, memoirs, art, heritage tourism, and political activism. This book traces the trajectory of writing about these towns--by Jews and non-Jews, residents and visitors, researchers, novelists, memoirists, journalists and others--to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for "town" emerged as a key word in Jewish culture and studies.

Virtually every aspect of Jewish life, knowledge, history, culture, religion, and contemporary issues is covered in this annotated, bibliographic guide to over 1,000 reference works, as well as a selective list of related Web sites, in English, French, German, Yiddish, and Hebrew. (Recipient of the Outstanding Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Librarians in its earlier 1993 edition).