New Jewish Books
Brill Reference Library of Judaism This volume brings together over forty of Schiffman’s Studies on Ancient Judaism that have helped to shape this emerging field. Throughout, these studies display a wide-ranging perspective, bringing together...
Foreword: Annette F. TimmTranslator: Dominic Bonfiglio Discover the chilling untold story of sexual forced labor in Nazi concentration camps In his seminal work, The Concentration Camp Brothel, Robert Sommer reveals the hidden horrors of...
Translator: Adrian Nathan West In the vein of Fleishman is in Trouble and Elif Batuman—an insightful, heartfelt, and hilarious debut exploring cultural diaspora through one teenager’s summer across Berlin, Jerusalem, and Chicago It’s another...
Illustrator: D. Yael Bernhard A good king is looking for the right words to help his people, rich or poor, deal with life’s challenges. Ezra, a humble servant boy, wants to help the king...
Edited and translated by Aubrey L. Glazer and Nehemia Polen From Tiberias With Love is a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history...
Routledge Studies in Modern History The importance of recording testimony of Holocaust survivors is well understood. While empowering the survivor and adding another layer of documentation about the cataclysm, it also serves as a...
Illustrator: Julie Downing Elsa carries her chessboard everywhere, always ready for a game. When World War II forces her from Europe, can chess help make America home? Growing up in 1900s Vienna, Elsa’s brothers...
Nine Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust In some ways, Adele, Barney, Eric, Ernie, Frank, Judy, Magda, Rodi, and Ruth had little in common. They were born in different European countries and came...
It has been one of Zionism’s foremost credos that so long as Jews continued their millenarian dispersal as small minorities in countless countries around the globe, antisemitism would remain unabated. Only by reinstating the...
Does modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred? How can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, anachronistic or corrupted? Does sexual obsession have a textual...
