Here’s a few humble suggestions, including links for discounts for hardcovers in particular. Enjoy in good health!
Torah from the Years of Wrath: The Historical Context of the Aish Kodesh
Discovered in the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1950, the wartime writings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira illustrates his remarkable spiritual heroism during the Holocaust.
Paperback or Kindle from Amazon
The Kabbalah of Forgiveness: The Thirteen Levels of Mercy in Rabbi Moshe Cordovero’s Date Palm of Devorah (Tomer Devorah)
The Kabbalah of Forgiveness is an extended meditation of Thirteen Levels of forgiveness, exploring how we may emulate God to forgive others, and in some cases, to forgive ourselves as well.
Paperback or Kindle from Amazon
Maimonides on Teshuvah: The Ways of Repentance
The Sea of Talmud: A Brief and Personal Introduction
Scholarly yet readable, The Sea of Talmud combines basic, authoritative information on the Talmud with the author’s unique and personal journey to traditional Judaism. Tracing the history of the Talmud from its origins in ancient Israel and Babylon to Internet-based texts, Dr. Abramson describes the excitement and thrill of studying Talmud from an insider’s perspective.
Paperback or Kindle from Amazon
Reading the Talmud: Developing Independence in Gemara Learning
Reading the Talmud is a textbook designed for students who want to move beyond translations to learning the Talmud on their own. This book presents a proven, “no shortcuts” approach based on the traditional Yeshiva model. If you have enough Hebrew skills to work out a Biblical verse, and a healthy determination to toil in the Talmud, this book will help you develop independence in Gemara learning.
The Art of Hatred: Images of Intolerance in Florida Culture
(Jewish Museum of Florida, 2001)
Museum catalog for travelling exhibit on the history of antisemitic iconography.
A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920
(Harvard, 1999)
Revised and Updated version Now Available in Paperback and Kindle from Amazon
After the fall of the Russian Empire, Jewish and Ukrainian activists worked to overcome previous mutual antagonism by creating a Ministry of Jewish Affairs within the new Ukrainian state and taking other measures to satisfy the national aspirations of Jews and other non-Ukrainians. This bold experiment ended in terrible failure as anarchic violence swept the countryside amidst civil war and foreign intervention. Pogromist attacks resulted in the worst massacres of Jews in Europe in almost three hundred years. Some 40 percent of these pogroms were perpetrated by troops ostensibly loyal to the very government that was simultaneously extending unprecedented civil rights to the Jewish population.
Abramson explores this paradox and sheds new light on the relationship between the various Ukrainian governments and the communal violence, focusing especially on the role of Symon Petliura, the Ukrainian leader later assassinated by a Jew claiming revenge for the pogroms. A Prayer for the Government treats a crucial period of Ukrainian and Jewish history, and is also a case study of ethnic violence in emerging political entities.
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