Musings of a Jewish Bookseller

A visibly Irritated man calls insisting I tell him why he is receiving unsolicited books from my store.  Turns out that someone was purchasi...

The Mir Yeshiva’s escape to Shanghai - a New Perspective based on recently discovered publications originally written for and published in A...

 Originally written for and published in Ami Magazine Ever wonder what would make a wedding invitation Jewish? Are there specific traditions...

 One thing I have learned after cataloging hundreds of thousands of books is that not only can't you just a book by its cover, you often...

 The Talmud editions we have today are a culmination of numerous editions over the years, each with its own characteristics, features and co...

 Life for Jews in the first years of the Holocaust in Hungary can often appear to be constructed from two very different opposing scenarios....

 The Nazis during the Holocaust systematically murdered millions of Jews, ending not just their lives but often erasing the entire memory of...

 If there is one prayer that would signify the history of the Jewish Exile, it would arguably be the Prayer on behalf of the King, tradition...