New Jewish Books
Translators: Yaëlle Azagury, Frances Malino The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry A first-ever English translation of a compelling work by a forerunner of modern Sephardi feminist literature. Raised in the...
Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education A teacher reflects on her teaching practice, bringing literacy scholarship into the arena of Jewish education. In The Second Conversation, university professor Ziva R. Hassenfeld returns to the middle...
The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry An original and comprehensive comparison of the universalisms of two major modern Jewish philosophers. Any version of universalism relevant to a more attentive, pluralistic,...
Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust HBI Series on Jewish Women A sympathetic history that focuses on the experiences of women and girls during the Holocaust and draws on new archival sources. Beginning...
Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the...
HBI Series on Jewish Women The first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff. In Sculpting a Life, the first book-length biography of sculptor Chana Orloff (1888-1968), author Paula Birnbaum tells the story of a fiercely...
A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have—no surprise—typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith magazine,...
The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry The first scholarly biography of Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv in English in over thirty-five years. Defender of the Faithful explores the life and thought...
Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life Jewish Identities in the American West fills a significant gap in racial identity scholarship. Since the onset of New Western History in the 1980s, the...
HBI Series on Jewish Women Foreword: Tamar Kadari A unique compilation of contemporary women’s midrashim. Dirshuni: Contemporary Women’s Midrash, is the first-ever English edition of a historic collection of midrashim composed by Israeli women,...
