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Songs of Sonderling
Commissioning Jewish Émigré Composers in Los Angeles, 1938–1945
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781682830796
Pub Date: March 2021
Songs of Sonderling is the story of Jacob Sonderling’s unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descendant of Chassidic rebbes, a rationalist, a Reform rabbi, a Zionist, an army chaplain, a celebrated orator, an artistic soul. From his early career at the Hamburg Temple and German Army service in World War I, to his wandering years in the Eastern United States and founding of the Society for Jewish Culture–Fairfax Temple in Los Angeles, Sonderling cultivated a unique aesthetic vision of Judaism, a “five-sense appeal.”
Jonathan L. Friedmann and John F. Guest document and analyze Sonderling’s experience and expression of Judaism through music. Rabbi Sonderling’s vision yielded liturgical commissions from exiled Viennese Jewish composers who arrived in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s. Through these musical settings, activities at the Fairfax Temple, and involvement with the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of...
Pillar of Fire
A Biography of Stephen S. Wise
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896729100
Pub Date: December 2015
During his long career, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise received letters with only two words written on the envelope: “Rabbi USA.” But the United States Postal Service was never in doubt about the intended...
The Letters That Never Came
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780896728653
Pub Date: August 2014
Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof’s life growing up in...
Unwanted Legacies
Sharing the Burden of Post-Genocide Generations
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896728356
Pub Date: November 2013
How does a society reconcile itself in a post-genocide era? How can generations of those whose families were victims and victimizers break the cycle of hate, mistrust, shame, and guilt that characterizes...
The Tailors of Tomaszow
A Memoir of Polish Jews
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896728790
Pub Date: April 2014
Seven decades after the Nazis annihilated the Jewish community of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, comes a gripping eyewitness narrative told by one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, as well as...
Karski
How One Many Tried to Stop the Holocaust
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780896728820
Pub Date: August 2014
A young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, Jan Karski joined the Polish Underground movement in 1939. He became a courier for the Underground, crossing enemy lines to serve as a liaison between...
Contesting Histories
German and Jewish Americans and the Legacy of the Holocaust
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780896726987
Pub Date: September 2011
Starting with popular objections to America’s entry into World War I and ending with recent academic debates between Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen over the legacy and meaning of the Holocaust,...

Songs of Sonderling
Commissioning Jewish Émigré Composers in Los Angeles, 1938–1945
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781682830796
Pub Date: March 2021
Songs of Sonderling is the story of Jacob Sonderling’s unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descendant of Chassidic rebbes, a rationalist, a Reform rabbi, a Zionist, an army chaplain, a celebrated orator, an artistic soul. From his early career at the Hamburg Temple and German Army service in World War I, to his wandering years in the Eastern United States and founding of the Society for Jewish Culture–Fairfax Temple in Los Angeles, Sonderling cultivated a unique aesthetic vision of Judaism, a “five-sense appeal.”
Jonathan L. Friedmann and John F. Guest document and analyze Sonderling’s experience and expression of Judaism through music. Rabbi Sonderling’s vision yielded liturgical commissions from exiled Viennese Jewish composers who arrived in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s. Through these musical settings, activities at the Fairfax Temple, and involvement with the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of...
Jonathan L. Friedmann and John F. Guest document and analyze Sonderling’s experience and expression of Judaism through music. Rabbi Sonderling’s vision yielded liturgical commissions from exiled Viennese Jewish composers who arrived in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s. Through these musical settings, activities at the Fairfax Temple, and involvement with the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of...
Pillar of Fire
A Biography of Stephen S. Wise
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896729100
Pub Date: December 2015
During his long career, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise received letters with only two words written on the envelope: “Rabbi USA.” But the United States Postal Service was never in doubt about the intended...
The Letters That Never Came
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780896728653
Pub Date: August 2014
Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof’s life growing up in...
Unwanted Legacies
Sharing the Burden of Post-Genocide Generations
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896728356
Pub Date: November 2013
How does a society reconcile itself in a post-genocide era? How can generations of those whose families were victims and victimizers break the cycle of hate, mistrust, shame, and guilt that characterizes...
The Tailors of Tomaszow
A Memoir of Polish Jews
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896728790
Pub Date: April 2014
Seven decades after the Nazis annihilated the Jewish community of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, comes a gripping eyewitness narrative told by one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, as well as...
Karski
How One Many Tried to Stop the Holocaust
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780896728820
Pub Date: August 2014
A young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, Jan Karski joined the Polish Underground movement in 1939. He became a courier for the Underground, crossing enemy lines to serve as a liaison between...
Contesting Histories
German and Jewish Americans and the Legacy of the Holocaust
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780896726987
Pub Date: September 2011
Starting with popular objections to America’s entry into World War I and ending with recent academic debates between Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen over the legacy and meaning of the Holocaust,...