Recommended books that can be borrowed from the Aaron Garber Library, 26500 Shaker Boulevard, Library Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9-4, Phone 216-212-4116, Ilka Gordon, On Site Director.
The Sages: Character, Context & Creativity by Binyamin Lau (3 volume set) Koren Publishers
The Sages is the first work of prominent Jerusalem Rabbi Binyamin Lau translated into English. The three volume set explores the lives and times of Hazal, their families, professions and much more.
Derashot Ledorot: A Commentary for the Ages: Genesis by Norman Lamm
Derashot Ledorot is a selection of erudite and captivating essays based on Rabbi Lamm’s sermons delivered between 1952 and 1976. Each essay comprises Rabbi Lamm’s reflections on the weekly parashah.
The Third Reich Sourcebook edited by Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman
The Third Reich Sourcebook is an anthology of newly translated documents from the Holocaust. It includes official party and government pronouncements texts produced in Nazi organizations and speeches given by Nazis such as, Goring and Goebbels.
Rashi by Abraham Grossman
In this book Abraham Grossman, professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, pulls together the strands of information onRashi’s life, personality, social and cultural background.
Jews and Judaism in the New York Times by Christopher Vecsey.
According to the introduction, Vecsey aims “to discern the content and contours of Judaism as seen on the pages of The New York Times over three decades, from the 1970s into the twenty-first century. If readers were to learn about Judaism through the lens of the Times, what kind of knowledge would they gain?
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