L’shanah tovah
Jewish Year 5767 : Sunset September 22, 2006 to Nightfall September 24, 2006
Or "For a good year!" Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and one of the most important days of the Jewish calendar. To honor the holiday, people of the Jewish faith rest and cast off their sins. Enjoy these contemporary titles by UNP authors:
Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World Series:
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada: An Anthology
Edited by Michael Greenstein
"Greenstein has delivered a fine gift of some of the country’s best writers." —University of Toronto Quarterly
By Brenda Serotte
"Serotte is a marvelous storyteller, and this book, one of the American Lives Series, is a profoundly moving memoir."—Booklist
Essential Readings on Jewish Identities, Lifestyles, & Beliefs:
Analyses of the Personal and Social Diversity of Jews By Modern Scholars
Edited by Stanford M. Lyma
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Richard Altschuler & Associates, Inc./ Gordian Knot Books
"Many of the individual articles are excellent, informative, and unique.”–Jewish Book World
Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe
Edited by Michael Brenner and Gideon Reuveni
Analyzes the pertinence of sports to such issues as race, ethnicity, and gender in Jewish history and by examining the role of modern sport within European Jewry. Read more here.
Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present
By Joanna Beata Michlic
A contribution to modern Jewish and Polish history, the study of nationalism, and to a new school of critical inquiry into the nature of anti-Jewish prejudices. Read more here.
Shoshanna’s Story: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Shadows of History
By Elaine Kalman Naves
"Shoshanna’s Story is a powerful account of what it’s like to deal with the grip that the Holocaust continues to have on successive generations."—Montreal Review of Books
Bad Jews and Other Stories
By Gerald Shapiro
“Gerald Shapiro casts an incisive eye over his contemporaries.”—New York Times Book Review.
Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions
By S.L. Wisenberg
“Writing to be savored, to reread, to read aloud to someone else. . . . These are wonderful writings from a prolific local author whose talents deserve a large audience."—Chicago Tribune
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