Product Description: “Jewish stories,” writes Adam Biro, “resemble every people’s stories.” Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales—“There’s nothing,” writes Biro, “more revelatory of the Jewish being...read more

Product Description: The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as “this people has already suffered for its past and its future,” Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darker and more tragic turn during the Holocaust...read more

Product Description: Although Charlemagne held a strong position in defining France's national identity for more than ten centuries, he was swiftly rejected as a national hero from the 1870s onwards for being too German and has never really regained his rightful place in France's history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Filled with humor and insight, this collection of Eastern European Jewish tales focuses on friendship, love, rabbis, matchmakers, and immigrants, illuminating the rich tapestry of Jewish life in Europe before the war. (view table of contents)