New Jewish Books
The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History (Brandeis, 2013) mixes lesser-known writings with some of his classic essays. What emerges out of this mix is a clear...
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah MirskyYale University Press, 2014. 288 pp. $25.00 Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the...
In his new book Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History, Rutgers University Jewish Studies Professor Jeffrey Shandler, who has a particular interest in Yiddish culture, examines how the original meaning of shtetl has morphed and...
And Every Single One Was Someone by Phil Chernofsky As a math and Jewish studies teacher in a Jewish day school, Chernofsky wanted a different and meaningful way for his students to relate to...
A Young Lawyer, Given a Revelation by God, at Sea About What To Do With It In Joshua Max Feldman’s entertaining debut novel ‘The Book of Jonah,’ Greed is Good meets Sept. 11 …What...
Tsiterboym Books announces the publication of the first bilingual Yiddish-English edition of The Dybbuk, by S. An-sky. Translation by Fernando Peñalosa. 202 pp., introduction, notes. Size: 9 x 6 inches. $13.14, available from Amazon.com....
A Victorian world of supernatural creatures, magnificent airships, a secret society, and one bluestocking adventuress who, threatened by evil seeks protection by awakening the golem. On an archaeological expedition, Bayla Gideon, is widowed by...
This novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother’s diaries....
In Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Ari Ariel analyzes the impact of local, regional and international events on ethnic and religious relations in Yemen...
In How to Woo a Jew, your very own Jewish Carrie Bradshaw takes you through each facet of the dating world—from traditional Jewish matchmaking and mixers to modern online dating portals, from honing your...
