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In this deeply personal investigation, a trained historian unearths the journey of his father's family from a tiny shtetl in what was western Russia (then Poland and now Ukraine), to the thriving port of Baltimore. With little knowledge at the start, the author reaches back to the lives of his great-great grandparents in the 1860s and traces what became of each of their six children who settled with families in crowded East Baltimore. Drawing ...

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Buried under the rubble of time, forgotten by the vicissitudes of history, lie two small towns, both shtetls that until recently have been lost to memory, especially to the memory of families who ended up in the English-speaking world. They were sister towns, no more than a mile apart, and their economies, cultures, institutions, and families were so intertwined with one another that some residents later hyphenated the town names, as if they w...

From the Foreword by Edmund Chaitman, M.D. (Dr. Chaitman is a member of the New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society.): Of all the statements about the purpose of poetry, Ezra Pound's is the most relevant: "The purpose of poetry is to throw affect on the page." It was, therefore, no surprise to me on opening Howard Schwartz's Living with Poetry to learn that he turned to poetry to help him deal with the feelings stirred by the death of his mother. Ho...

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A little girl grows up to be an accomplished artist in this sumptuously illustrated book about the small things that lead to a rich and fulfilling life. All You needIs a planet to live on, A sun to give you light, And warmth. . . In All You Need, poet Howard Schwartz's graceful, deceptively simple text describes a handful of things anyone needs to live a rich and fulfilling life, made all the more potent by the illustrations of debut picture b...

Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed series that publishes rigorous academic research into organizational ethics from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives including, but not limited to, business management, philosophy, sociology, psychology, religion, accounting, and marketing. In this volume, War, Peace and Organizational Ethics, expert contributors draw upon philosophers such as Aristotle...

This book was prompted by my near total engagement in the Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Judge Kavanaugh's statement after the accusations against him were investigated (September-early October 2018). The timing of the hearings overlapped the 85th birthday celebrations of Ruth Bader Ginsburg who experienced bias by the legal establishment despite her outstanding scholarship an...

The writing of these stories, strung together as chapters but really imagined independently, took me over. I couldn't wait to sit at my computer each night, write, and read the results to Sue, my wife (I should say "Grandma Sue"). I . . . realized it would make sense to complete . . . as a book that I could give to [my grandson] Alexander. . . . I was successful in doing that. The stories are about him and me, but they are also about myself as...

The Revolt of the Primitive explores the psychological dynamics of political correctness and gender warfare

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement. Howard Schwartz has compiled the most extensive collection of Nachman's stories in English yet. In addition to his famous Thirteen Tales, Schwartz includes here many stories, parables, dreams, and folktales.

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Schwartz has collected the stories of one hundred prominent modern Jewish writers.

Only one of the world's mythologies has remained essentially unrecognized-the mythology of Judaism. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, this mythical tradition is as rich and as fascinating as any in the world. Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, ...

Among the mythologies of the world, that of the Jewish people is alone in remaining essentially unrecognized. Indeed, it has been argued that the monotheistic structure of Judaism effectively precludes the development of mythology, as it consists of only one God instead of a constellation of gods. In fact, however, as Howard Schwartz here demonstrates, there is a flourishing mythology in Judaism, which first emerges in the Bible and continues ...

A vast wealth of tales recounting mystical experiences among the rabbis can be found in the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore. Now, in Gabriel's Palace, Howard Schwartz has collected the greatest of these stories, sacred and secular, in a marvelously readable anthology.

In Leaves from the Garden of Eden, Howard Schwartz, a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, has gathered together one hundred of the most astonishing and luminous stories from Jewish folk tradition. Just as Schwartz's award-winning book Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism collected the essential myths of Jewish tradition, Leaves from the Garden of Eden collects one hundred essential Jewish tales. As imaginative as the Arabi...

Howard Schwartz, the author of this extraordinary collection of Jewish tales and parables, is one of the most creative, inventive, and inspiring Jewish writers of our generation. When one reads his work, the question arises: what is taken from a primary text and what is invented by the imagination of the author?

For this anthology, the renowned folklorist and master storyteller Howard Schwartz, a three-time-winner of the National Jewish Book Award, selects the most interesting and significant tales from each of his four OUP collections.