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	NEW! THE LONGEST NIGHT: A Personal History of Pan Am 103 by Helen Engelhardt. Nearly twenty-five years ago, in an act of terrorism that stunned the world, Pan Am 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. The Longest Night begins with the author receiving the nightmarish news that her husband, Tony Hawkins, was one of those 270. How is she going to tell Alan, their six-year-old son? Helen Engelhardt takes readers on an intimate, year-long journey of grief, outrage, and loving remembrance, against a backdrop of international politics, media frenzy, and courtroom negotiations. To keep Tony present for both herself and Alan, Engelhardt mixes memories, documents, recordings, and headlines in a narrative that is, at once, deeply personal and profoundly universal. $19.95. Add to Cart. You can also order from our Marketplace by calling (845) 626-2427 (M-F, 8-6 PM Eastern time) Free shipping (domestic U.S.A.) on every order!
	OPTION THREE, a novel about the university byJoel Shatzky When Acting Visiting Assistant Professor L. Circassian is fired and rehired in the same week (with a 35 percent pay cut), he is only at the beginning of a cycle of abuse and professional debasement at the university. Jewish Currents education correspondent Joel Shatzky has created an hilarious novel about the corporatization of higher education — a book filled with blowhard deans, corrupt politicians, grasping CEOs, inept union officials, inappropriately dressed students, and scholars in donkey ears. $17.95, Add to Cart Free shipping (domestic U.S.A.) on every order!
	TRUE LOVE by Margaret Gruen All roads lead to the Borough of Queens as a cast of characters, including Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger, Susan Boyle, and Michelle Obama, whisks our heroine back to the summer light of her childhood growing up in Bayside in the 1950s. The heart rules in this elegiac collection of tales of light and love.$12, Add to Cart
	The Hundred Greatest Americans of the Twentieth Century by Peter Dreier Dreier’s new “Social Justice Hall of Fame” was excerpted in the Summer, 2012 issue of Jewish Currents with an article on Saul Alinsky. Frances Fox Piven calls it “a great collection of gripping stories. A book you won’t want to put down.” Jonathan Kozol calls it “a compelling narrative of the major social justice movements of the United States and the ways that high ideals are transformed into action. . . . Terrific reading.” $17.95, Add to Cart Free shipping (domestic U.S.A.) on every order!
	JEWDAYO a DAILY BLAST of KNOWLEDGE and PRIDE Did you know that Marcel Marceau, the world’s most famous mime, began to practice his art to help silence Jewish children he was escorting to safety in Nazi-occupied France? Did you know that five Jews were among the eleven activists tried for treason with Nelson Mandela? Did you know that Gertude Elion, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was a school teacher, unable to find a job in industry because of sex discrimination? Did you know that Louis Armstrong, the pioneer of jazz, wore a Jewish star throughout his life to honor the New Orleans family that bought him his first cornet? You’ll know all of this, and much, much more, once you start using this marvelous day book to keep track of your own important dates. JEWDAYO lists an event and inspiring quotation from progressive Jewish history for every day of the year. 270 illustrated pages, indexed, with ample room for your notes. $21.95. Created by Jewish Currents editor Lawrence Bush. $21.95, Add to Cart Free shipping (domestic U.S.A.) on every order!
	Babushkin’s Catalogue of Jewish Inventions By Lawrence Bush and Richard Codor $9.95, published by Loose Line Productions and Blue ThreadFeaturing The Genius Phone (better than any smart phone!) • Gag Kasha Varnishkas • Extra-Large Grandparents • Live Gefilte Fish • Yenta the Jewish GPS • Kneejerk Support Hose • Freeze-Dried Nakhes • Intermarriage Barbie • Judyism • and much, much more!Updated and expanded, with over 70 inventions Add to Cart
	The Association of Jewish Libraries Guide to Yiddish Short Stories by Bennett Muraskin English translation.• Plot summaries of 135 Yiddish short stories. • Authors from classic Yiddish writers to Holocaust survivors. • Organized by topic, including Jewish holidays, shtetl life, ethics and piety, questioning God’s justice, moral choices, social injustice, anti-Semitism, women, parents and children. • English and original Yiddish sources. • Concise biographies of the writers. • A brief history of the translation of Yiddish literature into English in America.“Bennett Muraskin has done a wonderful thing! He has created a resource that has made Yiddish stories (in translation) accessible to a broad audience. Any institution with an interest in Jewish culture . . . ought to find this book very helpful.” —Dr. Sheva Zucker, editor of Afn Shvel $14.95, Add to Cart
	*A Testament for Ariela* By Miriam Lipschutz Yevick Miriam Lipschutz Yevick began writing letters to her two-month-old granddaughter, Ariela, in 1985, and continued right through to Ariela’s wedding in 2006 and her motherhood in 2008. In sharing her thoughts, her values, her self-awareness, and her rapturous relationship with art and with nature, Yevick reveals the inner life of a woman of science, of passion, and of deep philosophical insight. A Testament to Ariela is a testament about the trials of being a child refugee from Nazi-occupied Holland and Belgium; about the thrill and sacrifice of becoming the fifth woman in history to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT; about the soulfulness of being a spiritually sensitive socialist and a highly cultured human being. “A piercing, poignant celebration of life in all its complexity — and of the importance of memory.” —Louisa Gilder, author, The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn$19.95, Add to Cart
	MARVIN FRIEDMAN. by Marvin Friedman A graphic autobiography by a master of illustration. “Friedman tells stories of Jewish families and neighborhoods, stories that were funny, painful, personal, and full of cross-outs. Marvin is a penitent with a sense of humor, a lustful old guy with a richly erotic memory bank. Beyond his sense of cool, his craziness, his nostalgia, there is always a devotion to kindness.” —Lawrence Bush, editor, Jewish Currents$11.95, Add to Cart
	The Generation That Lost Its Fear A Memoir of Jewish Self-Defense and Revolutionary Activism in Tsarist Russia by Moishe Katz Translated from the Yiddish by Lyber Katz Moishe Katz (1885-1960) was a leftwing journalist for Yiddish newspapers in Russia and the U.S., most notably, the Morgn Freiheit. Early in the 20th century, as the Tsarist regime in Russia sought to stifle revolutionary and reform movements through repression and pogroms, Katz helped to organize armed Jewish self-defense and workers’ committees in several cities. The Generation That Lost Its Fear recounts those days in hindsight from the 1950s, when Katz and his comrades again faced repression, this time in the U.S. during McCarthyism. The book offers a vivid narrative of an era when young Jews took real risks to fight tyranny in Russia and bring economic justice and an end to Jewish persecution. It is a story with tremendous relevance for our own era of repressive regimes, fundamentalist attacks on human rights, and popular uprisings that are demanding systemic change. $19.95, Add to Cart Free shipping (domestic U.S.A.) on every order!
	The Waterfall: Rhymed Yiddish Couplets,selected and translated by Barnett Zumoff. With Yiddish originals and English translations. Hardcover, $19.95; paperback, $14.95Published by Blue Thread Communications, an imprint of Jewish Currents magazine.“Rhymed couplet poems are not common in Yiddish poetry, but most of the greats wrote at least a few of them. I like to think that they wrote them when they were in a particularly playful and lyric mood, even though some of the poems have quite serious themes . . . ” —from Dr. Zumoff’s Introduction $19.95 Hardcover, Add to Cart $14.95 Softcover, Add to Cart Free shipping (domestic U.S.A.) on every order!
	Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheistby JC editor Lawrence Bush $16.95“Bush has a reputation for independent and unpretentious thought and dialog. Here he continues that tradition, exploring factors that converted Woodstock-era nonbelievers into passionate spiritual seekers . . .” —Library Journal“With courage he walks the tightrope between atheism and the temptations of belief. . . . deeply personal, searingly honest, wise and witty.” —Dr. Joseph Chuman, Ethical Culture Society$16.95, Add to Cart
	*God Is a Tree and Other Middle-Age Poems* by Esther Cohen $10 No one tells menopause truth. You’re incredibly hot. You develop a small moustache. It’s hard to sleep. Black cohosh doesn’t work. Your body gets wider. Still, nothing big truly changes. At least there’s that. Amen. $10, Add to Cart
	Yiddish Literature in America, 1870-2000 edited by Emanuel Goldsmith, with translations by JC Mameloshncolumnist Barnett Zumoff $29.95“Finally, an anthology of Yiddish poetry, prose and essays that introduces the English reader to the richness of Yiddish literature in America. . . . Zumoff’s careful and fluid translations take readers on a literary and cultural odyssey that will educate, surprise and delight!” —Sheva Zucker, editor, Afn Shvel Add to Cart
	*The Words We Used,* A Remembrance of Yiddish language and culture in poetry by Robert Cooperman $14.95Kvetching. . . the verbal white noise/of my childhood and youth:/ . . . The unspoken theory:/if we kvetched/about small things, nothing/horrible would rise up,/like a second Hitler . . .Add to Cart
	He Walked Through Walls: A Twentieth-Century Tale of Survival by Myriam Miedzian $20“Myriam Miedzian tells the moving story of how her father survived three 20th-century wars. We also learn how his harrowing experiences . . . and her own childhood broken by war have become conjoined for her with the pain of the world, and how her broken heart has become an open heart.” —Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom CenterAdd to Cart
	Unintended Wanderings through Torah A Book of Poems by Isidore Century Isidore Century is a “master of the simply prosy poetic style with a complex profound poetic ending,” says Midstream. His books include From the Coffee House of Jewish Dreamers (Ben Yehuda Press), and his poetry has been published in Chelsea Review, Midstream, Jewish Currents, Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, Jews., and Best Jewish Writing 2003, among other publications. About From the Coffee House of Jewish Dreamers “[F]unny, deeply observed, written with a knowingness and rhythm of things old and new . . . poetic, original midrashim.” —Jewish Week “[S]o rich, so full of life . . . the book is full of minor miracles.” —Nikki Stiller, Home Planet News $13.95, Add to Cart Free shipping (domestic U.S.A.) on every order!
	Child of the 20th Century: Growing up Jewish in Holland, Belgium, Palestine, Israel, America. And Texas. A Memoir by Abbie Lipshutz For nine decades Abbie Lipshutz has been a fighter, lover, writer, dillettante musician and classical music commentator. He is a clinically happy soul who possesses Offensive Charm and Unjustified Arrogance, qualities that have served him well over the years. He was a kibbutznik in Palestine in the early 1940s, a veteran of the Dutch Prinses Irene Brigade in World War II, and a volunteer in Israel’s War of INdependence. He made a living for half a century as a diamond dealer throughout the American South. Child of the 20th Century is the memoir filled with the sights, sounds, scents, songs and surprises of a progressive life well lived. $19.95, Add to Cart “Lipschutz is part prankster, part subversive . . . the purpose of his endeavor is to remember that Jews ‘have not just been victims, but also freedom fighters, the avant-garde of the Enlightenment, progressive movements and revolutions.’ . . . Thanks, Abbie Lipschutz, for giving us this act of creation.” —Aaron Howard, Houston Jewish Herald Voice Free shipping (domestic U.S.A.) on every order!