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See our titles that range from Susan Vorhand's insights on Kabbalah and self-healing to Isabelle Medina Sandoval's telling of the crypto-Jewish background of her family.
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A Hidden Light:
Stories and Teachings of Early HaBad and Bratzlav Hasidim
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi with Netanel Miles-Yepez tells the history of early Hasidism through stories about the Rebbes, giving definitions of values and spirituality. The line between midrash and history becomes invisible.
All Breathing Life Adores Your Name
by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and edited by Michael Kagan. Rabbi Lawrence Kushner has said that Reb Zalman’s ideas and stories have “profoundly altered the landscape of American Judaism.” And, it is in his tradition of originality that Reb Zalman has opened a door for us with these prayer/poems.
Princes, Popes and Pirates by Sandra K. Toro tells the life of Joseph Nasi, Duke of Naxos, and historical figure that inspired the figure of "The Jew of Malta" by Christopher Marlowe. He was the nephew of Dona Gracia Nasi and helped Sephardic Jews escape persecution in Europe.
Selected for New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival 2011
Pulling It All Together: Diary by One of America's First Jewish Women Judges. Anne Schlezinger.
For half a century she wrote everyday in her diary about her life and professional work. She reached the pinnacle of achievement for a woman in the Federal judiciary in the 1970s', but when she graduated from law school she could only get a job as a secretary. Incredible life story by an amazing twentieth century woman.
Award Winning Writing