New Jewish Books
A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found...
The first ever monographic study on the theological encounter of Judaism with Shicism through an explorartion of Judah Halevi’s reliance on basic themes of Shicism in the presentation of Judaism in his classical treatise,...
This book is the first attempt to apply formal pragmatics to Judaic studies as a discipline as well as within the broader discipline of cultural studies, reconstructing the pragmatic approach in Judaism and defining...
The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in...
When it was first published in 1980, Judith Laikin Elkin’s foundational book on the Jewish communities of Latin America quickly became the standard resource on the topic. This new edition, the first in fifteen...
“But it hardly seemed to bother the players at all,” Larry Needle writes in his children’s historical fiction book, Homecourt: The True Story of the Best Basketball Team You’ve Never Heard Of. “The louder...
In David Grand’s atmospheric new novel, ‘Mount Terminus’, set in pre-Hollywood Los Angeles, a man can’t outrun his dark New York past. The Rosenblooms were conceived somewhere on the other side of the world. In...
At night, Talia and her sisters liked to sneak onto the kibbutz adjacent to their land and hang out in the date palms, climbing and balancing themselves while trying to steer clear of the...
John Judis’ Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict has recently raised a controversy, or at least a kerfuffle (he was invited, disinvited, then re-invited to speak at the Museum...
This book presents the first full-length study of a vast and complex visual tradition produced, revered, preserved, banned, and destroyed by the Hasidic movement of Chabad. This rich repository of visual artifacts provides the...
