New Jewish Books
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer ḥasidim, Susan Weissman documents a major transformation in Jewish attitudes and practices regarding the dead...
A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to today In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to “Jews, heathens, and other...
A History: Revolution, Civil War, and New Ways of Life, 1917–1930, Volume 1 Chronicles the encounter of one of the largest Jewish communities in the world with war, revolution, and Soviet power from 1917...
In a world with instant and unlimited access to almost all human knowledge, with more distractions and less time than ever before, Torah mastery and truly focused learning is becoming increasingly rare and difficult...
On a sunny May afternoon in Silver Spring, Maryland, Yaffa Klugerman’s 14-year-old son, Dov, crossed the street from his school to his home and was hit by a car. He was rushed to the...
Torah Commentaries to Cultivate Your Spiritual Practice Experiencing deep personal fulfillment, happiness, and sustenance comes from feeling connected to our authentic selves, which involves building an ongoing relationship with the Divine Presence within us,...
The Eighteenth-Century Ba’al Shem of London Translated by Edward Levin With an introduction by Todd M. Endelman The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization The enigmatic kabbalist Samuel Falk, known as the Ba’al Shem of...
The remarkable story of Sol Lurie, a child survivor of six concentration camps during the Holocaust, who continues to be a beacon of hope. After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just...
Award-winning novelist Mary Morris weaves together an unsolved family mystery, a poignant coming-of-age story, and a little-known corner of World War II history in this lyrical novel of family, loss and, ultimately, love. Thirty...
“To tell a long story short, Papa says, / and then proceeds to tell bits of a long story.” Poet Jamie Wendt does the same in her new collection Laughing in Yiddish, and through...
