New Jewish Books
A Jewish civil war is tearing apart northern Israel. In the south, servants of the goddess Ashtaroth are abducting unwary refugees. Haim, an unwanted boy, escapes into this nightmarish landscape to find his way...
Darya does not remember how she came to be a slave or who she was before she was bought by an army captain for his motherless daughter in the ancient Persian city of Susa....
No one said it would be easy… I never anticipated the most embarrassing moment of my life would resonate with so many people. I mean, what’s so special about a plus-sized woman drunkenly pouring...
The late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries were a turning point in the thought of the west. This was the age of Averroes, Maimonides and Aquinas, each of whom struggled to reconcile their respective...
by Thomas L. Saaty, H. J. Zoffer, Luis G. Vargas, Amos Guiora This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to conflict solution focusing on a very specific type of conflict, retributive conflicts . It is...
Miri Nachum ends up in a foreign country searching for love and truth. But who she ends up, is a far cry from who she was when she started out. Is she a seeker...
The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of...
Permitting and Forbidding Open Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and...
How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the Torah Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria...
This graphic-novel debut from an acclaimed picture book creator is a powerfully moving memoir of the author’s experiences with family, religion, and coming of age in the aftermath of World War II, and the...
