New Jewish Books
Excerpt from a news article: An exhibition devoted to the life and legacy of scholar and philosopher rabbi Loew, according to legends a creator of supernatural monster Golem from the early 17th century, opens...
I added 16 books to the site/database: Cohn-Sherbok, Dan: A Dictionary of Kabbalah and Kabbalists Fishbane, Eitan: As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist Garb, Jonathan: The Chosen Will Become...
The Book Giveaway is a simple website, where every week anyone can enter to win one of five books, no strings attached. This week, till Friday, one of the selected books are M.J. Rose‘s...
The movie Pi had plenty of kabbalistic connections. Turns out that a comic book was also produced in relation to it: Pi: The Book of Ants, written by Darren Aronotsky and illustrated by Edward...
Forward has a detailed review of Moshe Halbertal‘s “Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and Its Philosophical Implications.” Here is the key of the article: As Moshe Halbertal shows in his brilliant new...
The prolific Yehuda Berg published another book in April: “The Spiritual Rules of Engagement: How Kabbalah Can Help Your Soul Mate Find You.” Here is quickdfw.com‘s (where I first found about the book) take...
I learned from Bob’s Book Reviews that the Steampunk anthology (edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer) that intended to introduce the Steampunk genre to wider audiences includes “Ted Chiang‘s “Seventy-Two Letters” a golem story,...
Being focused on Kabbalah I have to mention that there is a new movie out, which incorporates some Kabbalistic themes into its horror story: The Unborn. Here is the Wikipedia synopsis: “The Unborn is...
Larry Coleman wrote a review about Joseph C. Lisiewski‘s “Kabbalistic Cycles and the Mastery of Life.” This is a non-Jewish, astrological approach. Here is a short segment from Larry’s review: “This book describes the...
AP posted a story about how Chabad managed a US judge to issue “a restraining order telling Russia to protect the documents and return any that may already have been removed from the Russian...
