Ken Wald’s newest book, The Ghosts on the Wall: A Grandson’s Memoir of the Holocaust (2024), is the story of his family in Hitler’s Germany and afterwards in the US. There will be a book talk at Congregation B’nai Israel featuring Ken Wald and moderator Rebecca Jefferson, curator of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida.

Ken Wald is Emeritus Professor of Political Scientist and the inaugural holder of the Bud Shorstein Chair in American Jewish Culture and Society, University of Florida. He has written about the relationship of religion and politics in the United States, Great Britain, and Israel. His most recent books include The Politics of Cultural Differences: Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period (2002) and Religion and Politics in the United States (2003).

Read about three of the Price Library’s rare Haggadahs and their historical significance in “The Conversation”

Thanks to the Judaica Library’s ongoing partnership with Ariel Abramovich, an Argentinian journalist and editor, and various Jewish institutions and publishers in Argentina, we can now offer online open access to the previously inaccessible Jewish journal, La Luz: Revisita Quincenal Literary Hebrea (The Light: Biweekly Hebrew Literary Magazine). Originally founded in 1931 by Don David Elnecavé, this magazine has been edited by three generations of the Sephardi Elnecavé family through to 2015.