Boundaries Not Barriers by Samuel M. Stahl An engagingly written book of Jewish information and
inspiration, which covers a broad range of topics, including: Forgiving Is
Not Condoning, The Anatomy of Gossip, Is a White Lie Ever Justified?, How
Jewish Is Privacy?, Grace: Jewish and Christian Understandings, Jews and
the Anti-Christ, Kabbalah Lite, and Felix Mendelssohn: Musical Genius and
Jewish Casualty.
$22.95
Hardback
ISBN 1-57168-864-1
280 Pages
RAISINS
& ALMONDS
and Texas Oil!
by Jan Statman
Raisins & Almonds is the story
of the Jewish contribution to the Great East Texas Oil Boom, told in the
words of those who lived it. Twenty-four people describe the same events
from vastly different points of view in the same way that different
threads are gathered to weave the fabric of a community.
Mike Marwil’s eyewitness description of bringing in Dad Joiner’s first
discovery well takes the reader directly to the well site. Norman Balter’s
stories of shoveling coal as fireman on a cross-country freight train give
us a feeling for Depression days, when people were down-and-out and
desperate to survive. Milton Galoob tells how he couldn’t afford tires
for his truck: "I drove all the way from Oklahoma to East Texas on
two tires and two rims." Irving Falk shares the emotions of a
seventeen-year_old who found himself alone and obliged to make his way in
the oilfields: "I was completely in awe. I didn’t know whether to
look up, down, or look out for traffic." Sam Krasner swears he didn’t
ride into town on a turnip truck; he "rode in on a truckload of
seven-inch pipe!"
They all gathered from many exotic corners of the world to find themselves
in the most exotic place of all—East Texas during the Oil Boom. Their
recollections make the times come alive again in this historical work that
reads like a novel.
$26.95
Paperback
ISBN 1-57168-872-2
6 by 9, 224 pages, index, photos
THIS
JEWISH LIFE
By Debra B. Darvick
Foreword by Rabbi David Wolpe
In This Jewish Life: Stories of Discovery, Connection, and Joy fifty-two voices enable readers to experience a calendar’s worth of Judaism’s strengths—community, healing, transformation of the human spirit, and the influence of the Divine. Within these pages are stories of joyous engagement and poignant loss. Readers will meet a teen who followed the path of Judaism after a chance encounter and men and women who turned to Judaism in their struggles with drug addiction and spousal abuse. Structured to mirror a complete year of Jewish life cycle events and holidays, this unique book showcases a bar mitzvah service in rural Illinois, a commitment ceremony in a California metropolis, a Soviet family’s first Passover Seder, and much more.
This Jewish Life is a year in the life of a contemporary Jew told by a variety of individuals. Their stories will carry readers, Jew and non-Jew alike, through twelve months of Jewish living.
$19.95
Paperback
ISBN 1-57168-729-7
6X9-304 pages
WHAT
JEWS KNOW ABOUT SALVATION By Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel
In times of fear, people seek comfort, purpose, and
direction. We feel sadness and depression. We think about such issues as
responsibility, error, guilt, forgiveness. We explore spiritual recourses
such as prayer and sacred scripture.
These pages draw upon the world’s longest continuous discussion of
salvation, the precious traditions of Judaism, as preserved in the Hebrew
Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Zohar (Kabbalistic commentary on
the Bible).
This book will inspire, comfort, and challenge readers of all faiths and
backgrounds.
$19.95
Paperback
ISBN 1-57168-679-7
THEY
CAME TO STAY The Story of the Jews Of Dallas
1870_1997 By Rose G. Biderman They Came to Stay not only chronicles the
story of the Jews who settled in Dallas, their lives and contributions,
but also explores the rationale for the early Jewish neighborhoods and
ethnic closeness, and the locations and growth of religious institutions
and societies.
$29.95
Hardback
ISBN 1-57168-485-9
6 by 9, 320 pages, photos, appendix, endnotes,
index, hardcover.
THE
SOUL OF THE RAV Sermons, Lectures and Essays By Samuel E. Karff "...Sam Karff is one of the great rabbis of
our generation. ...the most insightful and compelling overview of the
rabbinic vocation that I have ever read."
—Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, President, Union of
American Hebrew Congregations, New York, NY.
$24.95
Hardback
ISBN 1-57168-199-X
300 pages, 6 x 9, and index
HENRY
COHEN:
A Frontier Rabbi By Jimmy Kessler Children's Book
Following a childhood in London, Rabbi Cohen served
a number of years in Africa and Jamaica and his final sixty two years in
Galveston.
$13.95
Hardback
ISBN 1-57168-199-X
72 pages, 5½ by 8½.photos, bibliography, timeline,
glossary
HOLOCAUST
SURVIVOR Triumph Over Tragedy By: Mike Jacobs
Edited By: Ginger Jacobs A penetrating memoir by the founder of the
Dallas Holocaust Memorial Center, who has spoken since 1950 to an
estimated 500,000 people about the Holocaust. Mike Jacobs was born in the
small Polish town of Konin, where the Jewish community dated from 1397.
When Poland was invaded by the Nazis in 1939, Jacobs spent five years
confined in ghettos and concentration camps.
Holocaust Survivor teaches us that when we recognize that freedom
comes from within, we are never completely powerless.
$19.95
Paperback
ISBN 1-57168-472-7
224 pages, 6 by 9,photos, and appendices
