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Books posted in January 2019

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Covers of books posted in January 2019 on jewishbookworld.org

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.

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

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