New Jewish Books
When Joe Dunthorne began researching his family history, he expected to write the account of their harrowing escape from Nazi Germany in 1935. What he found in his great-grandfather Siegfried’s voluminous, unpublished, partially translated...
In honor of the writings of Giulio Busi, scholar of Jewish culture, the book investigates from a multidisciplinary perspective the extraordinary richness of Jewish culture in the Diaspora from antiquity to the latter part...
Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond A joyous celebration of Ethiopian Jewish cuisine: more than one hundred accessible and healthy recipes, stories, and traditions from the intersection of the...
Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures examines the place of classical music in early 20th-century Japanese and Hebrew literatures. As this book shows, both Japanese and Hebrew writers...
The Modern Jewish Experience After the Nazi seizure of power on January 30, 1933, over 250 German rabbis, rabbinical scholars, and students for the rabbinate fled to the United States. The Last Generation of...
The literature on Zionism as a political ideology is extensive, but this book takes a different approach by focusing on the cultural dimensions of the movement and their profound impact on the history of...
A candid, thought-provoking exploration of contemporary women’s experiences of religious conversion and the relationship between faith and fulfillment in our time Religious involvement has been declining in the West for decades—and, though men have...
Translator: Jody Gladding European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go...
Routledge Philosophy Companions The Routledge Companion to Jewish Philosophy is a deep and broad reference that brings diverse perspectives to bear on the key topics, problems, and debates in Jewish philosophy and philosophical theology. The...
Illustrator: Lisa Anchin Annie Cohen Kopchovsky was ready to ride her bicycle. Not to the market.Not around the block.Not across town.Annie was going to ride her bike all theway around the world. In 1894,...
