Exciting times at Lioness Books!
Exciting times at Lioness Books!
New book launches, author events, community collaborations....
This Sunday, June 4, we launch Kol Halev: A Jewish Chaplain's Handbook, by Rabbi M. Chava Evans and Rabbi Eryn London.
Sign up for the launch event here
To purchase Kol HaLev:
For review copies or bulk purchases, please be in touch with Lioness Publishing info@lionessbooks.com
What people are saying about Kol Halev:
“Kol Halev: A Jewish Chaplain’s Handbook is a wonderful compilation of essential prayers and rituals used by clergy during some of life’s most delicate moments. The easy-to-use volume covers moments of birth, death, and uncertainty with sensitivity, attentiveneness, and wisdom. This book will certainly be a vital resource for chaplains and rabbis. And I am extremely proud to say that the authors, Rabbi M Chava Evans and Rabbi Eryn London, are graduates of Yeshivat Maharat!”
Rabba Sara Hurwitz, President and Co-Founder, Yeshivat Maharat
“Hospital Chaplaincies often ask me if there’s a book specifically designed for Jewish chaplains and caregivers supporting their patients. Until Kol HaLev, I knew of none. Chava and Eryn have created an invaluable resource. This comprehensive guide combines traditional and original Jewish prayers, offering tools to address diverse spiritual needs. It also bravely provides a menu of suggestions for modern Jewish Chaplains in public spaces to best serve patients of all faiths and none, leaving the choice to the user. I highly recommend Kol HaLev.”
Rabbi Alex Goldberg, Dean of Religious Life and Belief, Surrey University
“It is inspirational to be aware of the years of experience which have gone into compiling this essential resource for all practitioners of Jewish pastoral and hospital work. At its heart are deeply moving and spiritual original prayers composed by the authors themselves. ‘I try to remind my colleagues and patients that they themselves are sources of blessing.’ (Rabbi M. Chava Evans)”
Rabbi Michael Hilton, author, Rabbi Emeritus of Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Jewish Community, a lecturer at Leo Baeck College London and a Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester.
“Rabbi Eryn and Rabbi Chava have lovingly crafted a much needed resource for Jewish chaplains and CPE students. With both traditional and creative resources, this book walks with the chaplain in navigating how we offer compassionate professional chaplaincy to patients, families, and staff of all faiths. Informed by extensive experience and heart, this is a wonderful contribution to Jewish spiritual care and to the wider field of chaplaincy!”
Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn, BCC. President-Elect of Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains, Hospital Chaplain, and Congregational Rabbanit
“The book will be a true balm for patients and their families”
Reverend Daniel H. Yang, Chaplain at New York-Presbyterian Hospital
“Clear! Concise! Informative! Inspirational! Rabbi Evans and Rabbi London have given the ‘Spiritual Care World’ a valuable tool! Whether you are of the Jewish faith or not, you will be blessed and better equipped to serve others with Kol HaLev: A Jewish Chaplain’s Handbook!”
Reverend Jules Christian, Pastor, Chaplain, Writer, and Counselor
“A wonderful resource for Jewish health care chaplains and for those working in multifaith care. Fully comprehensive, covering many prayers and situations and scenarios that may arise with compassion in a user-friendly format all in one place! This is a very needed part of any chaplains’ collection. I shall be recommending it to all my colleagues.”
Dr. Harrie Cedar, Healthcare Chaplain at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, as well as the Jewish Chaplain at King’s College of London
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The book is dedicated in honor of Sheila E. Klein for supporting this project through Maharat's Entrepreneurial Micro Grant
And in loving and everlasting memory of Stanley I. Rosenzweig by his wife, Zelda R. Stern.
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To purchase Kol HaLev:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
For review copies or bulk purchases, please be in touch with Lioness Publishing info@lionessbooks.com
On June 19, we release the stunning new memoir Our Names Do Not Appear, by Judy Lev
When childhood grief is silenced, mourning lasts a lifetime.
Veteran author and writing teacher Judy Lev (Labensohn) brings us the touching 70-year-old story about the death of Joey, her baby brother, and its devastating impact on her family history. In a moving memoir that blends fact, fiction, and personal essays, the Pushcart Prize nominee longs for closure, while grappling with sadness and anger.
The process of uncovering family secrets buried for decades launches a journey into imaginative grief-processing, in which Lev crafts alternative scenarios to Joey’s life and death. Lev introduces imagination as an integral part of grieving. Our Names Do Not Appear invites readers to witness the complexity of silenced childhood grief that persists and confuses for decades.
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Pre-order Our Names Do Not Appear: in paperback here
Or order on Kindle here
For bulk purchases or review copies, contact Lioness Books -- info@lionessbooks.com
What people are saying about Our Names Do Not Appear:
“Our Names Do Not Appear is a vivid memoir of the heroine’s quest for an understanding of the void left in her life by the infant death of a younger brother. Reaching across the decades, and spanning cultural distances between Cleveland and Jerusalem, her quest leads her in the end to an intimate re-imagining of her own experience of family trauma. A richly moving story of a woman’s growth to insight and compassion.”
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, author of The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious
“Held captive by a familial tragedy she cannot remember, the writer liberates herself through constructing an astonishing narrative. Judy Lev renders her younger brother’s forgotten death in striking prose, engages the fictive imagination in the father’s first-person narrative, and employs an analytic intellect in courageous personal essays. Our Names Do Not Appear is a bold literary tour de force that transcends genre—a searing triumph of postmodernism!”
Allen Hoffman, author of the Small Worlds series.
“How do you tell a complex family story of love, loss, secrecy, grief, revelation, and forgiveness? Judy Lev’s answer is through a multiplicity of forms and genres. In this lyrical, imaginative hybrid memoir, she pieces together the story of her baby brother’s brief life, a taboo subject in her family, through letters and documents, the fictionalized version of her father’s experience of Joey’s birth and death and the introspective story of Lev’s quest to reach a deeper understanding of her parents and herself. Our Names Do Not Appear is an engrossing, brilliantly written jewel of a book.”
Lisa Knopp, author of The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays
“Our Names Do Not Appear recounts the solving of a personal and deeply troubling family mystery story—part investigation, part imaginative tale. It unfolds as an engrossing, gorgeous, and intimate account of a woman’s life-long passage from childhood innocence through haunting grief to a mature reckoning with self and family, leading us through Jewish tradition, culture, and history to a place of peace and enlightenment—for both the author and the reader. A powerful and moving story, a book that matters.”
Philip Gerard, author of Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life
“In a woven trilogy, a triple elegy, part fairy tale, part investigative journalism, Our Names Do Not Appear moves from 1950s Ohio to end-of-century Jerusalem. Lev’s tender alchemy of forgiveness and love is a triumph of the spirit and the imagination.”
Marcela Sulak, Co-author of Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres
Judy Lev (Labensohn) is an award-winning author, writing teacher, and Pushcart Prize nominee. She spent thirty years writing this book. A former Clevelander, Lev has lived in Israel since 1967. This is her first book.
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On June 11, we have a joint event in Modi'in with Shana Aaronson, Director of the organization Magen
To discuss Dr. Elana Sztokman's book, When Rabbis Abuse and what communities can do to about sexual abuse in their midst. Moderated and hosted by Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
For more information about the event, contact
Dr. Sharon Weiss Greenberg sharonweiss@gmail.com or via whatsapp +972-587834181
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Do YOU have a book in you that you would like to birth into the world?
Contact me to find out how I can help you!
elana@lionessbooks.com
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