New Jewish Books
The Habad school of hasidism is today one of the largest hasidic groups, due to its intriguing synthesis of mysticism and postmodernity and its active engagement in outreach. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a critical,...
Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part...
Rabbi Eliezer Berland has been teaching from the wellsprings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov’s Torah for well over 40 years. This compendium of lessons on the Jewish holidays was drawn from a number of...
Illustrator: Steve Mack In Eilat, a blub, blub, blub―Swimmers’ snorkels glub, glub, glub. Tour Israel’s most fun places―kibbutz, beach, market, and more―and discover each spot’s special sound in this rhyming tribute to the sounds...
Editors: Dina Porat, Olaf Glöckner, Haim Fireberg, Marcela Zoufalá The book deals with the representation of Jews, Judaism and Jewish communities in current Central European culture, literature and media; the subject of Jewish identities/identity;...
Ephrem, one of the earliest Syriac Christian writers, lived on the eastern outskirts of the Roman Empire during the fourth century. Although he wrote polemical works against Jews and pagans, and identified with post-Nicene...
Editor: Lena Mintz Do you love Israeli cooking and Mediterranean recipes? Would you like to learn to make exciting Israeli recipes that are perfect for Rosh Hashanah? This Jewish cookbook is the perfect place...
I had a baseball question on the tip of my tongue: What was the name of “the natural,” the player shot by a stalker in a Chicago hotel room? He gave me an amused...
This autobiography is a compelling tale of an individual who survived the full brunt of the Shoah as a teenager, from the first day of the war in the small town of Dembitz in...
Translator: Gregory L. Freeze Zinaida Poliakova (1863–1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business...
