Books posted in September 2018

Below is the list of the 54 books that I posted on this site in September 2018. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site” links to the book’s page on this site.

1. All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah by Emily Jenkins (on this site)
2. The Ancient Jewish Mysticism by Joseph Dan (on this site)
3. Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel by Joseph Lowin (on this site)
4. The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar by Eitan Fishbane (on this site)
5. Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism by J. H. Chajes (on this site)
6. The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murders & Kabbalah: Seeds of Jewish Extremism and Alienation? by Lippman Bodoff (on this site)
7. The Book of Norman by Allan Appel (on this site)
8. Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War by Micah Goodman (on this site)
9. The Closing of the Gates: N’ilah by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman (on this site)
10. The Commentators’ Bible: Genesis (The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot) by Michael Carasik (on this site)
11. A Dictionary of Kabbalah and Kabbalists by Dan Cohn-Sherbok (on this site)
12. Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul by Naomi Levy (on this site)
13. The Emperor of Shoes by Spencer Wise (on this site)
14. The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism by Geoffrey W. Dennis (on this site)
15. For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors by Laura Esther Wolfson (on this site)
16. The German-Jewish Cookbook: Recipes and History of a Cuisine by Gabriella Rossmer Gropman and Sonya Gropman (on this site)
17. Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah and Counter History by David Biale (on this site)
18. Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law by Chaim N. Saiman (on this site)
19. Hearts and Minds: Israel and the Battle for Public Opinion by Nachman Shai (on this site)
20. Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions by Ra’anan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed (on this site)
21. The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered by Benjamin Taylor (on this site)
22. The Hunt by Miriam Walfish (on this site)
23. The Impostor: A True Story by Javier Cercas (on this site)
24. In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Patrick Desbois (on this site)
25. Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future: 200 Years of Wissenschaft Des Judentums by Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-freudenthal, Guy Miron (on this site)
26. Kabbalah and Art by Leo Bronstein (on this site)
27. Kabbalah and criticism by Harold Bloom (on this site)
28. Lake Effect Days by Philip Sultz (on this site)
29. Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart (on this site)
30. Little Book of Jewish Feasts by Leah Koenig (on this site)
31. The Magician and the Spirits by Deborah Noyes (on this site)
32. The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World by Nathaniel Deutsch (on this site)
33. The Messianic Secret of Hasidism by Mor Altshuler (on this site)
34. A Minyen Yidn (un Andere Zakhn): A Bunch of Jews (and other stuff) by Trina Robbins (on this site)
35. The Modern Jewish Table: 100 Kosher Recipes from around the Globe by Tracey Fine and Georgie Tarn (on this site)
36. Motherhood by Sheila Heti (on this site)
37. The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Aczel (on this site)
38. The Princess Dolls by Ellen Schwartz (on this site)
39. Promised Land: A Novel of Israel by Martin Fletcher (on this site)
40. Returning by Yael Shahar (on this site)
41. The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography by Dean Phillip Bell (on this site)
42. The Ruined House by Ruby Namdar (on this site)
43. (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump by Jonathan Weisman (on this site)
44. Sexual Symbolism and Merkavah Speculation in Medieval Germany: A Study of the Sod h-Egoz Texts by Daniel Abrams (on this site)
45. The Story of Hebrew by Lewis Glinert (on this site)
46. Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich by Michele K. Troy (on this site)
47. Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community by H. G. Adler (on this site)
48. The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein (on this site)
49. Under My Window by Michal Safdie (on this site)
50. What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper (on this site)
51. Who’s Got the Etrog? by Jane Kohuth (on this site)
52. Yossi and Laibel’s Shabbos Surprise by Dina Rosenfeld (on this site)
53. Zion’s Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature by Sheldon Teitelbaum, Emanuel Lottem (on this site)
54. The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland―Then, Now, Tomorrow by Gil Troy (on this site)