Jewish Titles Spring 2019 {IPG} The Art of Inventing Hope Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel Howard Reich Summary The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world’s most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel’s life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago and Florida—and spoke often on the phone—to discuss the subject that linked them: both Wiesel and Reich’s father, Robert Reich, were liberated from Buchenwald death camp on April 11, 1945. What had started as an interview assignment from the Chicago Tribune quickly evolved into a friendship and a partnership. Reich and Wiesel believed their colloquy represented a unique exchange between two generations deeply affected by a cataclysmic event. Wiesel said to Reich, “I’ve never Chicago Review Press done anything like this before.” Here Wiesel—at the end of his life—looks back on his ideas and writings on 9781641601344 the Holocaust, synthesizing them in his conversations with Reich. The insights that Wiesel offered and Reich Pub Date: 5/7/19 On Sale Date: 5/7/19 illuminates can help the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors understand their painful $26.99/£23.99 UK inheritance, while inviting eve... Discount Code: LON Hardcover Contributor Bio 192 Pages Howard Reich has written for the Chicago Tribune since 1978 and joined the staff in 1983. He is the author Carton Qty: 0 of five books. Reich has won an Emmy Award and the Chicago Journalists Association named him Chicago History / Jewish HIS022000 Journalist of the Year in 2011. 9 in H | 6 in W Around the Passover Table Tracy Newman, Adriana Santos Summary The candles are lit, the seder plate filled, and the matzo stacked high. Join in to read, sing, eat, and observe the holiday. The many steps of a Passover seder are portrayed in this rhyming story. Contributor Bio Tracy Newman is the author of numerous children's books including Shabbat Hiccups and Uncle Eli's Wedding . She lives with her family and two cats in Connecticut. Adriana Santos worked as a graphic Albert Whitman & Company designer before pursuing her interest in illustration. When she’s not creating, Adriana loves to read and hang 9780807504468 out with her children. She lives in Spain. Pub Date: 3/1/19 On Sale Date: 3/1/19 $16.99/£14.99 UK Discount Code: LON Hardcover Picture Book 32 Pages Carton Qty: 40 Ages 3 to 5, Grades P to K Juvenile Fiction / Holidays & Celebrations JUV017120 10 in H | 8 in W | 0.4 in T | 0.8 lb Wt IPG Spring 2019 Jewish Titles - March 2019 Page 1 {IPG} On the Run in Nazi Berlin A Memoir Bert Lewyn, Bev Saltzman Lewyn Summary BERLIN, 1942. The Gestapo arrest eighteen-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a factory making guns for the Nazi war effort. Miraculously tipped off the morning the Gestapo round up all the Jews who work in the factories, Bert goes underground. He finds shelter sometimes with compassionate civilians, sometimes with people who find his skills useful and sometimes in the cellars of bombed-out buildings. Without proper identity papers, he survives as a hunted Jew in the flames and terror of Nazi Berlin in part by successfully mimicking non-Jews, even masquerading as an SS officer. But the Gestapo are hot on his trail… Chicago Review Press 9781641601108 Before World War II, 160,000 Jews lived in Berlin. By 1945, only 3,000 remained alive. Bert was one of the Pub Date: 3/5/19 On Sale Date: 3/5/19 few, and his thrilling memoir—from witnessing the famous 1933 book burning to the aftermath of the war in a $18.99/£16.99 UK displaced persons camp—offers an unparalleled depiction of the life of a runaway Jew caught in the heart of Discount Code: LON the Nazi empire. Trade Paperback 400 Pages Contributor Bio Carton Qty: 20 Bert Lewyn (1923–2016) was born Dagobert Lewin in Berlin. He emigrated to the United States in 1949 BIO037000 and settled in Atlanta, Georgia. He Americanized his name and started a family. His daughter-in-law, Bev 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.9 in T | Saltzman Lewyn , who worked as a researcher for CNN, persuaded him to tell his story; together they made 1.3 lb Wt shocking discoveries about his history through assiduous investigation. Finding Relly My Family, The Holocaust and Me Rosemary Schonfeld Summary Rosemary Schonfeld grew up as the daughter of a Czech immigrant in post-war UK and Canada, unaware of her father’s Jewish identity and of what really happened to his absent relatives. In adulthood she began to feel compelled to find out whether Relly, who had been married to her father’s brother and survived Auschwitz, was still alive. Relly was an exceptional person who lived a full, rich life without bitterness despite losing her entire family. Through conversations with her, the author started to understand not only what happened to her father, grandparents, and uncles, but also began to understand the many impacts of being a second-generation Holocaust survivor. Finding Relly explores the impact of the Holocaust in both the past and present. There is a danger of the Holocaust being relegated to the distant past; Finding Relly will help it keep Vallentine Mitchell 9781912676033 its contemporary relevance. Pub Date: 11/22/18 $9.99 Contributor Bio Discount Code: 20 Rosemary Schonfeld is a professional musician and composer. She also published short stories in Trade Paperback anthologies and an illustrated book. 224 Pages Carton Qty: 36 BIO037000 8.5 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.7 in T | 0.6 lb Wt IPG Spring 2019 Jewish Titles - March 2019 Page 2 {IPG} Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Derek Taylor, Theresa May Summary Jews make up 0.2% of the worlds’ population, yet they have won over 20% of the Nobel prizes. When one considers that Jews weren’t even admitted to the University in Britain until the 1820s, and were on a quota at some American Ivy League colleges until after the Second World War, their successes are truly remarkable. What is the reason for this disparity? Derek Taylor provides biographical chapters on all the prize-winning men and women, and an additional one on Alfred Nobel himself. These chapters include their backgrounds and the work for which they received the awards. In addition, Taylor provides the historical background to the development of scientific research. Vallentine Mitchell Contributor Bio 9781910383896 Theresa May has been the Prime Minister of the UK and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016. Derek Pub Date: 1/9/19 Taylor , OBE, is the author of British Chief Rabbis 1664–2006 , Don Pacifico , and many more works. On Sale Date: 1/9/19 $39.00 Discount Code: SHO Hardcover 400 Pages Carton Qty: 16 BIO037000 9 in H | 6 in W | 1.4 in T | 1.6 lb Wt The Queen & the Spymaster A Novel Based on the Story of Esther Sandra E. Rapoport Summary The Queen & the Spymaster tells the story of the unlikely champions of Ancient Persia and of a thousand-year vendetta that presages modern historical events in Iran and Afghanistan. Readers are transported to the exotic fortress city of Susa, the imperial palace, and the royal harem, where truth wears a mask. Rapoport meticulously describes a royal court populated by an intricate shadow-world of spies and informants—a sinister brotherhood with orders to draw a target on the king's back; rival cabinet ministers who command private armies; an orphaned girl with a gift for languages and an innate political intuition; a queen who, unbeknownst to all, is a secret agent; and the shrewd tactician who controls her. Penlight Publications 9781732495500 Contributor Bio Pub Date: 5/1/19 Sandra E. Rapoport is the author of the award-winning Biblical Seductions, a 2010 Resident scholar of Law On Sale Date: 5/1/19 and Bible at Harvard, and a practicing attorney, specializing in preventing sexual harassment in the workplace. $24.95 Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback 520 Pages Carton Qty: 20 Fiction / Jewish FIC046000 9 in H | 6 in W IPG Spring 2019 Jewish Titles - March 2019 Page 3 {IPG} Metropolitan Jewish Cemeteries of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Central and Eastern Europe A Comparative Study Rudolf Klein Summary This is the first comprehensive work on metropolitan Jewish cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe on an international level. Based on a comparative analysis of cemeteries from the Baltic to the Balkans, and from Russia to Germany, it touches upon art history, architecture and planning, landscaping, Jewish studies, and Jewish history. An important aspect of this work is the cultural background of Jewish funerary art: Christian- Jewish dialog, the inter-Jewish influence between different European regions (including the Reform Movement), and the Ashkenazi-Sephardi dialog in some parts of the old continent. It is also the first work Michael Imhof Verlag which touches upon the entirety of issues related to Jewish burial places of the nineteenth and twentieth 9783731907527 centuries: urban level, morphology of cemeteries, gravestone typology, stylistic analysis, symbols and Pub Date: 4/1/19 inscriptions, tahara and ceremonial halls, wells, benches, pergolas, row-and section-markers, and gravel $79.95/€69.00 EU Discount Code: LON holders. This book is intended for a wide variety of readers: municipal decision makers, urban planners, Hardcover architects and restorers, cemetery managem... 456 Pages Contributor Bio Carton Qty: 0 History / Europe Rudolf Klein is a professor of modern architectural history at Szent István University in Budapest.