Featuring the traditional prayers―provided in the original Hebrew and a new and annotated translation―this third volume in the Prayers of Awe series explores the relevance of confession today in what is bound to be the most up-to-date
and an additional four stories that he did not include in either of his collections
And Jewish artists created critical portraits of name changers that lasted for decades in American Jewish culture
and competition between Zionist organizations
Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names for them
The Journey by Ida Fink National Jewish Book Award Winner Featuring the traditional prayers―provided inWith this deeply moving, masterfully controlled novel, Fink, a Jewish writer who was born in Poland in 1921, continues her exploration of survival during the Holocaust (begun in the story collection A Scrap of Time ). Two Jewish sisters armed only with poorly forged papers escape a Polish ghetto; their real names are never given, and the narrator, the older sister, instead uses the various aliases they assume. Posing as Christians, they report to a