In the years between the two world wars, the Jewish community of Poland—the largest in Europe—was the cultural heart of the Jewish diaspora. The Jewish Workers’ Bund, which had a socialist, secularist, Yiddishist, and anti-Zionist orientation, won a series of important electoral battles in Poland on the eve of the Second World War and became a major political party. Many earlier works on the politics of Polish Jewry have suggested that Bundist victories were ephemeral or attributable to ou...

The history of the Frankfurt School cannot be fully told without examining the relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish family backgrounds. Jewish matters had significant effects on key figures in the Frankfurt School, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse. At some points, their Jewish family backgrounds clarify their life paths; at others, these backgrounds help to explain why the leaders of the School stressed the significa...

A Medal of Honor recipient looks back at his own service in the Vietnam War—and ahead to America’s future.Jack Jacobs was acting as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. Wounded, 1st Lt. Jacobs took command and withdrew the unit, returning again and again, saving fourteen lives—for which he received the Medal of Honor.Here, Col. Jacobs tells his stirring story of heroism, honor, and the personal code by which ...

To many, an association between Jews and sports seems almost oxymoronic--yet Jews have been prominent in boxing, basketball, and fencing, and some would argue that hurler Sandy Koufax is America's greatest athlete ever. In Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack Kugelmass shows that sports--significant in constructing nations and in determining their degree of exclusivity--also figures prominently in the Jewish imaginary. This interdisciplinary collection brings together the persp...

The relationships, past and present, between Jews and the political left remain of abiding interest to both the academic community and the public. Jews and Leftist Politics contains new and insightful chapters from world-renowned scholars and considers such matters as the political implications of Judaism; the relationships of leftists and Jews; the histories of Jews on the left in Europe, the United States, and Israel; contemporary anti-Zionism; the associations between specific Jews and ...

A special agent with a secret. A detective with a score to settle. Can they come together in time to stop a demon given untold power by the greed of millions?Archangel: The Book of Mammon is the first book in a new urban fantasy thriller series that features ancient conspiracies, high-tech threats, action-packed combat sequences, and compelling characters in unique situations.If you liked The Da Vinci Code, The Dresden Files, or

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Kidscape, the national charity that works to challenge and prevent bullying, this book offers readers an insight into a collection of innovative projects currently running in schools to promote inclusion, tolerance and kindness.From a gay role model to a peer mentor, a dance workshop to a gardening club, an autism ambassador to a travelling Gypsy theatre group, the ideas demonstrate how much we have to teach our children about inclusion, how much...

The award-winning author and Medal of Honor recipient shares an insider's history of bootcamp that's "authentic, entertaining, and often funny as hell" (Corporal Brian Dennehy, Ret.).Every American fighting man and woman share one thing in common: they have all survived basic military training. Basic tells the story of that training. Col. Jack Jacobs and co-author David Fisher recount the funny, sad, dramatic, poignant, and sometimes crazy history of how Am...

Featuring 14 songs in this audiobook of Harp and the Lyre, let the music play as the story unfolds.Tech giant Lyre storms Earth Rishona with a groundbreaking, futuristic device. Harp appears mysteriously. It’s time to face the music.Introducing Nash, Owen, Viona, Ezra, and Liberty. Bound by banter, ball dramas, bad skin, backlash, bullying, and blind love, these five teens and their friends know the universal rule: be attached to a device or be det...

New York, Paris, San Francisco – back in their heydays, these cities were outrageously fun for gays and artists. Berlin was the forgotten ghetto, but post-war and post-wall, Berlin has become Europe's queerest city. In Naked Love Berlin, experience the city through the lives of four gay and bisexual men as they learn that the party's only fun when earned.Kay is a Canadian with a corporate job. He struggles for a fabulous European life, but fabulous and monogamous are uneas...

In Hollywood, every pavement star tells a story. Not all of them shine.Wannabe actor Kyle Macdonald is down on his luck. Working as a supply teacher in an inner-city Birmingham school, he's single again at 28 and sleeping in his childhood bedroom beneath a 'Hard Candy' Madonna poster.He gets a call claiming he drunkenly married top Hollywood director Aaron Biedermeier in Vegas six years ago. Rather than panic, he sees a golden ticket to fame and the life he...

After his mother dies, Tim Daniels must graduate from veterinarian school, find a job, pay-off his loans, keep his girlfriend content, and try to keep his head…all while removing a designer purse from a dog’s stomach. Just another Tuesday morning…Anxiety has always been Tim’s annoying friend. Embarrassing him in middle school, preventing him from taking chances, but lately, Tim’s friend has become a looming enemy. Faced with the loss of his mother and the stressors of medi...