New Jewish Books
New Book: The Angel of Jewish History The relationship between the traditional Jewish past and the present is a key question in Jewish intellectual thought from the Wissenschaft des Judentums in the nineteenth century up to...
The People of the Book vs The People of the Kindle – Tablet Magazine What happens when our libraries are purged from our homes, replacing spines with screens? … What of the appeal of...
Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem | Brill Upcoming book: Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem; Story, History and Historiography Edited by Isaac Kalimi, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Seth Richardson, University of Chicago Sennacherib and his...
The Book of Life: Hannah’s Way An interview with author Linda Glaser and illustrator Adam Gustavson, creators of the picture book Hannah’s Way which won the 2013 Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Younger Readers Category.
Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture: Ilana Pardes Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israel’s Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs...
Mounk uses his experiences growing up in Germany to provide a unique insider’s look at the often fraught status of the Jews who live there. Despite employing a memoir-like title, Mounk provides less of...
Dating in Brooklyn While Russian | Stealing Cherries by Marina Rubin Short and sudden, none longer than a page, the tales of Stealing Cherries are funny and embarrassing and sad and honest. In “The Weekend,” she...
A Surprising New History of “Fiddler on the Roof” Maybe you first heard Tevye break into song when you watched Fiddler on the Roof on VHS in your grandparents’ living room. Maybe you sat in the audience on...
They Called Her Rebbe After a solitary girlhood, Chana Rochel argued with her father, rabbis, and yeshiva-bocher fiancée for the right to study the way men do, jettisoning “the noodle board,” in the words...
