New Jewish Books
The Light of Learning tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust. In the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish mystical movement appeared to be...
Oxford Handbooks The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies is the most comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Jewish music published to date. It is the first endeavor to address the diverse range of sounds,...
Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism as Spiritual Enterprise In the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed. That upward mobility, it has often been said, coincided with...
The Holocaust was the defining cataclysm of modernity. Now, more than three quarters of a century later, the immersive, interactive technologies of the digital age are dramatically refashioning our memory of that genocide. Virtual...
A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped the history of the Jewish people. Plagues, pandemics, and infectious...
Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover As the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar. While previous historical research assumed...
From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth The Heresy of Jacob Frank is the first monograph length study on the religious philosophy of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), who, in the wake of false messiah Sabbetai Zevi,...
The 2000 Camp David Summit and the End of the Two-State Solution A high-level insider’s history of the efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from 2000 Camp David Talks to the present, that explains...
The life and legacy of a young Argentinian woman whose disappearance in 1976 haunts those she left behind Marc Raboy always felt a “subliminal interest” in Argentina. His grandfather had left his village in...
The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law and, one could say, of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters of practice, custom, and law. The Oxford Annotated Mishnah...
