New Jewish Books
With essays by Michael Berenbaum and Stuart E. Eizenstat Raised by Polish Jewish parents in small-town Alabama in the ’50s and ’60s, American photographer Max Hirshfeld (born 1951) tells his parents’ Nazi-era love story...
Translator: Yael Lotan A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first...
Oscar Orleans is a Congolese refugee in Israel. He’s also the only Hebrew-speaking liaison to the African refugee community living in Tel Aviv’s worst slum. When his old friend Inspector Kobi Sambinsky of the...
Newly Discovered Hebrew Binding Fragments in Context. European Genizah Texts and Studies, Volume 5 This volume includes contributions presented at two conferences, in Mainz and Jerusalem, and presents new discoveries of binding fragments in...
Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to “America’s Playground” and move into the small apartment above their bakery. Despite the cramped quarters, this is the...
Foreword: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Introduction: Art Garfunkel The remarkable and inspiring story of a Columbia undergrad from a poor Jewish family who, after losing his eyesight to disease during his junior year, finds...
When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it’s clear that life is changing for the girl and her family. Step by step, the Nazis close in on the Dutch Jews. But when...
In The Cave 3 Copper Scroll: A Symbolic Journey, Jesper Høgenhavn presents a reading of the Copper Scroll as a literary text. For more than 60 years, scholars have debated whether or not the treasures...
From Johannesburg to Jerusalem, with a stopover in Manhattan, Jodi Samuel’s mission is to change the world, one small, unique step at a time. As an entrepreneur, international speaker, special needs advocate and super...
Coming from the Hebrew root that means “to receive,” Kabbalah is known as the “inner” or “esoteric” dimension of Judaism. Kabbalah for Beginners is your introduction to a great spiritual tradition that will help you deepen...
