We tend to look at the history of Jewish life in a linear way, ignoring or dismissing the influences and the stimulators from beyond the comfort zone of traditional Judaism. But we must ask ourselves:
In 1917, a group of visionaries broke ground on an institution that would ultimately change the landscape of Jewish life in America. The idea of The Jewish Center was nothing less than revolutionary.
No book in Jewish history has been illustrated more often than the Passover haggada. Signs and Wonders: 100 Haggada Masterpieces is the first work to survey the magnificent history of the illustrated
The fifteenth and final volume in the S.Y. Agnon Library, this volume opens with “The Outcast,” in a first-time English translation, an affecting novella about the clash within traditional Jewish civi
S.Y. Agnon's first book-length, breakthrough work, originally published in Hebrew in 1912 and now available in English for the first time in a fully annotated edition—this novella depicts an impossibl
In time for the 50th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to S.Y.Agnin – the first and only such award to a Hebrew author – The Toby Press presents this first-time edition of his posthumous
The Night lasted five years and eight days.Before the Night began, Ernst Bornstein was a precocious eighteen-year-old? who had an ordinary family with three siblings, two parents, and a large circle o
1937. In a fictional turn of historical events, the British Cabinet accepts the recommendations of the Peel Commission, establishing a Jewish State in the Land of Israel. Dan Lavi is a young diplomat
A personal account of twentieth-century Jewish history, Balaam's Prophecy tells the story of Naphtali Lau-Lavie, a fourteen-year-old survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald who went on to become one of I
This collection makes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' brilliant essays on the weekly Torah portion available in book form for the first time. Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy and literatur
Offers insight into the Book of Joshua, as the people, exhausted from their journey in the desert, struggle with the cultural values pervasive in Canaan, transition to a settled way of life, and overc
