Don’t miss these books this season from the Jewish
Publication Society!

From Gods to God
by Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch, translated by Valerie Zakovitch

The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of
the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world
that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret…

From Gods to God
is a provocative examination and recovery of the ancient myths and legends that
the Bible transformed, buried, or changed in order to fit a monotheistic
worldview.

The Life of Glückel of
Hameln translated by Beth-Zion Abrahams

This is the only English translation of Gluumlckel’s story
from the original Yiddish and is widely considered the most accurate and
complete translation available. It was out of print for many years until this
JPS edition…

The volume also includes an introduction by Beth-Zion
Abrahams that fills in the background of Gluumlckel’s life and tells how she
came to write her memoir.

 

We Are Children Just
the Same translated from the Czech by R. Elizabeth Novak, edited by Paul R.
Wilson

From 1942 to 1944, a group of thirteen- to fifteen-year-old
Jewish boys secretly produced a weekly magazine called Vedem (In the
Lead) at the model concentration camp, Theresienstadt (“Terezín” in Czech)…

We Are Children Just
the Same is a collection of writing and art from the secret magazine Vedem,
written by the Jewish boys of Terezín during the Holocaust with a new preface
and epilogue.

Seasons of Our Joy
by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow

Circling the Jewish calendar from Rosh Hashanah to Tisha
B’Av, this lively, accessible guide provides rituals, recipes, songs, prayers,
and suggestions for new approaches to holiday observance. Rabbi Arthur O.
Waskow explores the meaning of each holiday in relation to the history of the
Jewish people and individual spirituality, examines how the place of each
holiday in the cycle of the moon and the changing seasons affects the mood of
the day, and suggests ritual and spiritual ways to prepare for each festival.