New Jewish Books
Much of the drama, theological paradox, and interpretive interest in the Book of Samuel derives from instances of God’s violence in the story. The beginnings of Israel’s monarchy are interwoven with God’s violent rejection...
If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do? This is the question that haunts Amina as she watches new and horrible stories of discord and crisis flash across...
Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights...
Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and shit like that, so… here it goes!!! Yearbook is a...
One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about...
Oxford Series on History and Archives How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time to Gather argues that historical records...
When I searched my public library’s app for recent “Jewish” novels available as audiobooks, Operation Joktan jumped at me. I jumped on it to take an–admittedly easy–challenge for myself as I usually don’t read...
History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival The majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust in the interior of the Soviet Union. This collection of...
A spellbinding and unorthodox look into the life of Leonard Cohen, and the way his experiences with religion and spirituality produced one of the greatest musicians of our time. Leonard Cohen’s music is studded...
Jewish Lives “When I marched in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.” So said Polish-born American rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) of his involvement in the 1965 Selma civil rights march alongside Martin...
