Small Talk by Jeffrey Schwartz
This is a book of elegies, meditations, and dreams. It’s a book about connections and disruptions. It’s a book about time, how quickly it slips through our fingers and how it never ends. In...
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Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870–1930: A Memoir by Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche
Edited by Michelle U. Campos and Or Aleksandrowicz The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry The literary memoir of a founder of Tel Aviv, now available for the first time in...
Radical Jewish Politics: A Global Perspective by Nathaniel Deutsch, Alma Rachel Heckman, Tony Michels (Editors)
For the first time, this volume centers the rich but little known history of radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts it into conversation with developments in the Americas,...
Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity by David Mazower
Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is the first ever museum to showcase the extraordinary vibrancy and breadth of modern Yiddish culture—its literature, theater, art, music, journalism, politics—from...
The Stage of Her Life: Conversations with Actress Lea Koenig on Theater and Her Life by Yaniv Shimon Goldberg
Lea Koenig, one of the most loved and appreciated Jewish actresses among audiences and critics alike, sat down with Dr. Yaniv Goldberg for conversations about theater and life. In the conversations, Lea talks about...
Degas at the Gas Station: Essays by Thomas Beller
In his latest collection, Thomas Beller trains his piercing literary eye on how a single, seismic event indelibly shapes the trajectory of the common and mundane experiences of one’s life. Weaving together a charming...
The Oxford Handbook of American Jewish History by Shari Rabin, Michael R. Cohen (Editors)
Though never more than a tiny percentage of the population, Jews have been persistent–if perplexing–participants in the American community at least since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. This volume creates a...
Siberian Summer by Raisa Borovsky
This is a vivid, true story of Soviet Russia during the last decades of the USSR. It provides a lesser-known insider’s view that breaks stereotypes. As a daring memoir of a young woman searching...
Moses Maimonides: A Very Short Introduction by Ross Brann
Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his death, the meaning of his...
Reading across Cultures: Translating Romances, Fables, and Poetry in Medieval Ashkenaz by Caroline Gruenbaum
Reading across Cultures explores a body of innovative Jewish literary works from the Middle Ages. In late twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenaz―the Jewish communities in northern France, Germany, and England―Jewish authors translated several Old French and German...
