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.
Maimonides : Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal
Drawing on Maimonides’s letters and the testimonies of his contemporaries Moshe Halbertal provides a vivid description of Maimonides’s childhood in Muslim Spain, his family’s flight to North Africa, his personality, and the circumstances that shaped his thinking. Maimonides offers fresh perspectives for scholars and general readers alike.
Gangsters & Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago by Alex Garel-Franzen
You may think you know everything about the Roaring Twenties in the Windy City, but in the early twentieth century, the harsh environment of the Maxwell Street ghetto produced a proliferation of Jewish gangsters involved in everything from labor racketeering to white slavery. Their illegal activity offended their own community’s value system and sparked rifts between Reform and Orthodox Jews. It also ignited tensions between city officials and Jewish leaders, indelibly marked the gentile population’s perception of Chicago’s Jews and shaped the city’s West Side for years to come” Provided by publisher.
Fodor’s Israel 2013 9th edition
The latest Fodor’s guidebook Bon voyage
My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
In his popular and much reviewed new book, Ari Shavit tells the story of the birth of the State of Israel through interviews, letters, diaries, historical documents and his own family’s fascinating history.
The Queen You thought You Knew : Unmasking Esther’s Hidden Story by Rabbi David Fohrman (formerly a senior editor and writer for ArtScroll’s Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud)
Did you dress up as Esther or Mordecai as a child? Do you really know Esther? In The Queen You thought You Knew Rabbi Fohrman, by a close reading of the text, exposes a richer and deeper meaning to the Book of Esther.
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