New Jewish Books
Formulates a framework for the development of Jewish rituals for newborn girls This engaging book offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, philosophy, and social trends that underpin modern welcoming ceremonies for newborn...
Shira is Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon’s final, epic novel. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1970, the Hebrew original was published a year later. With this newly revised English translation by Zeva...
Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day In the present book, Dana Densmore brings to light an unpublished and nearly...
Svelte and supple as unleavened bread, Shlepping the Exile rends the shmaltz from Jewish fiction and replaces it with a pound of real flesh. It’s the story of Yoine Levkes, a hassidic boy of the Canadian...
David Malkiel, Bar-Ilan University From Renaissance to Risorgimento, the Hebrew tombstones of Padua express the cultural currents of their age, in text and art. The inscriptions are mainly rhymed and metered poems, about life, love...
Sennacherib at the Gates of JerusalemStory, History and HistoriographyEdited by Isaac Kalimi, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Seth Richardson, University of Chicago Sennacherib and his ill-fated siege of Jerusalem fascinated the ancient world. Twelve scholars—in...
Add to your bookshelf’s “Undead” section The Color of Light, Helen Maryles Shankman’s debut novel. This vampire tale is set in an art school that closely resembles the New York Academy of Art, which...
Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and TraumaFederica K. Clementi; Shulamit Reinharz, fwd.Brandeis University Press, 2013. 392 pp. $40.00 In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted...
In her latest novel, Alice Hoffman renders the brutal world of Lower East Side immigrants in the romantic hues her readers expect …None of the extraordinary things in The Museum of Extraordinary Things, the new...
The Parable and Its Lesson: A NovellaS. Y. Agnon; James S. Diamond, trans.Stanford University Press, 2014. 176 pp. $19.95 S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew...
