Books posted in January 2019
Here is the list of the 72 books that I posted on this site in January 2019. 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.
-
- Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah E. Lipstadt (on this site)
- Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish Antiquity by Jill Hicks-Keeton (on this site)
- The Art of Conversion: Christianity and Kabbalah in the Thirteenth Century by Harvey Hames (on this site)
- Becoming Jewish: New Jews and Emerging Jewish Communities in a Globalized World edited by Tudor Parfitt and Netanel Fisher (on this site)
- Belladonna by Daša Drndić (on this site)
- Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism by Moshe Idel (on this site)
- Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West (on this site)
- Confident Parents, Competent Children: Four Seconds At A Time by Rabbi Yitzchak Shmuel Ackerman (on this site)
- The Dark Young Man by Jacob Dinezon (on this site)
- Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law by Simon Rabinovitch (on this site)
- The Emoji Haggadah by Martin Bodek (on this site)
- The Enlightened Will Shine: Symbolization and Theurgy in the Later Strata of the Zohar by Pinchas Giller (on this site)
- Esther’s Gragger: A Toyshop Tale of Purim by Martha Seif Simpson (on this site)
- First the Jews: Combating the World’s Longest-Running Hate Campaign by Rabbi Evan Moffic (on this site)
- From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism by Andrei A. Orlov (on this site)
- From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey: A Commentary on Food in the Torah by Diana Lipton (on this site)
- Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris (on this site)
- God Is In the Crowd: Twenty-First Century Judaism by Tal Keinan (on this site)
- God, Man and Nietzsche: A Startling Dialogue between Judaism and Modern Philosophers by Zev Golan (on this site)
- Greetings From Angelus: Poems by Gershom Scholem (on this site)
- Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life by William Roy (on this site)
- Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld by Beate Klarsfeld, Serge Klarsfeld (on this site)
- Israel and the World Economy: The Power of Globalization by Assaf Razin (on this site)
- Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire by Raphael D. Marcus (on this site)
- The Israeli Path to Neoliberalism: The State, Continuity and Change by Arie Krampf (on this site)
- Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism by Shira Klein (on this site)
- The Jewish Baseball Card Book by Bob Wechsler, Peter McDonald, & Martin Abramowitz (on this site)
- Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition by Gershom G. Scholem (on this site)
- Jewish Mysticism: The Middle Ages by Joseph Dan (on this site)
- Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement by Joyce Antler (on this site)
- Joe’s Market: A Story About How One Man Changed His Community by Ilana Danneman (on this site)
- Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines by Sarah Aronson (on this site)
- Kabbalah and Alchemy: An Essay on Common Archetypes by Arturo Schwarz (on this site)
- Kabbalah and Eros by Moshe Idel (on this site)
- The Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism by Israel Gutwirth (on this site)
- Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue by Sandford L. Drob (on this site)
- Kabbalah: A Practical Illustrated Guide to the Jewish Mystical Experience by Bruce Halev (on this site)
- Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph Dan (on this site)
- Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy by Benjamin Balint (on this site)
- Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia by Moshe Idel (on this site)
- The Möbius Strip Club of Grief by Bianca Stone (on this site)
- Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism: The Supernatural in Jewish Thought by Gedalyah Nigal (on this site)
- Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom G. Scholem (on this site)
- Mari’s Hope by Sandy Brehl (on this site)
- Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible by Jane Yolen, Barbara Diamond Goldin (on this site)
- Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl: Upright Practices, The Light of the Eyes by Arthur Green (on this site)
- My Mother’s Son by David Hirshberg (on this site)
- My Name is Isaiah by Debbie Strom (on this site)
- Never a Native by Alice Shalvi (on this site)
- On the Threshold of a New Kabbalah: Kafka’s Later Tales by Walter A. Strauss (on this site)
- The Rabbi’s Brain: Mystics, Moderns and the Science of Jewish Thinking by Dr. Andrew Newberg & Dr. David Halpern (on this site)
- A Scarf for Keiko by Ann Malaspina (on this site)
- Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi (on this site)
- Soul Maps: Kabbalah to Navigate Your Inner World by The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (on this site)
- The Sound of Freedom by Kathy Kacer (on this site)
- The Speed of Dark: A Memoir by Joram Piatigorsky (on this site)
- The Spy Who Played Baseball by Carrie Jones (on this site)
- The Stakes of History: On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life by David N. Myers (on this site)
- Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier (on this site)
- Testament by Kim Sherwood (on this site)
- Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs the World by Avi Jorisch (on this site)
- Torah for Living: Daily Prayers, Wisdom, and Guidance by Mark Lanier (on this site)
- A Torah Giant: The Intellectual Legacy of Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, edited by Shmuly Yanklowitz (on this site)
- Understanding Evil: Selections from Rav Kook’s Eyn Aya by Abraham Isaac Kook (on this site)
- We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman (on this site)
- When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation by Paula Fredriksen (on this site)
- When History Is Personal by Mimi Schwartz (on this site)
- When Paul Met Artie: The Story of Simon & Garfunkel by G. Neri (on this site)
- When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel by Michal Kravel-Tovi (on this site)
- Willa & Hesper by Amy Feltman (on this site)
- Women of Valor by Karen E. H. Skinazi (on this site)
- Write On, Irving Berlin! by Leslie Kimmelman (on this site)