New Jewish Books
The Lamentations Commentary of Salmon ben Yeruhim The emergence of the Jewish Bible commentary in the tenth century marks a turning point in Jewish intellectual history, namely, the transition from ancient rabbinic culture to...
One of Independent Writers’ Association Best Truly Independent Books of 2021-2022 When a young burial society volunteer encounters the body of a woman she thinks may have been murdered, her search for the woman’s...
75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams? On Israel’s seventy-fifth anniversary comes a nuanced examination of the country’s past, present, and future, from the two-time National Jewish Book Award–winning author...
Classic Essays in Jewish History Designed for both students and seasoned scholars, this volume provides an innovative guide to the study of the Jewish past from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. It...
This book answers the question of what happened to Sarah at the end of Carter’s award-winning debut novel I, Sarah Steinway. When Tova Goodman is born, her mother calls her Tova. Along with her...
Between Nihilism and Hope Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the...
The Myth of Psychology and the Evasion of Responsibility Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour The Therapized Antisemite seeks to determine the failure of psychology in the understanding and punishment of antisemitism. For over a...
The Story of Rose Schneiderman Illustrator: Giovanni Abeille A young Jewish immigrant from Poland, Rose Schneiderman went to work in a cap factory in New York City when she was just thirteen years old....
Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in...
Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. For many historians, the...
