New Jewish Books
Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page turning, epic family saga centering on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family―each striving to break free of fate...
Editors: Jacques van Ruiten and Koert van Bekkum In Violence in the Hebrew Bible scholars reflect on texts of violence in the Hebrew Bible, as well as their often problematic reception history. Authoritative texts and traditions...
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of...
Illustrator: Avi Katz “There’s an Ethiopian; there’s an Ethiopian!” I heard them shouting. I looked behind me, but I couldn’t see any Ethiopian. Children began crowding round me, and I still didn’t realize that...
Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today’s leading activists and artists. In this installment, The New Queer Conscience, Voices4 Founder and LGBTQIA+ activist Adam Eli offers a candid...
To be “mystical” is defined as “having a spiritual symbolic or allegorical significance that transcends human understanding”. In this ground-breaking book, Eduard Shyfrin (PHD) shows that the ideas of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah) also resonate...
The Personal Account of an IDF Officer in Egyptian Captivity During the Yom Kippur War “They shot me, Micky.” Those were the words Micky Seiffe managed to scratch on the wall in front of...
Translator: Alice E. Olsson “There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.” Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their...
Peter Fraenkel here gives a vivid account of a childhood in a middle-class, non-observant Jewish family in Nazi Germany, forced to emigrate to Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) in 1939. Here the contrast could hardly...
Kabbalah in America includes chapters from leading experts in a variety of fields and is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the title subject from colonial times until the present. Until recently, Kabbalah studies have not...
