New Jewish Books
From Mosaic Magazine: Year after year, most of what gets served up to young Jewish readers is poorly conceived, substantively shallow, and reeking of chicken-soup nostalgia. … Admittedly, part of the challenge for children’s...
The Ladino collection is among the nation’s largest, second to the one housed at Yeshiva University in New York. Among the finds is a rare book of ethics published in Istanbul in the 1740s...
Where Jewish writers are finding homes these days, and why By Adam Kirsch …The real question for the future of publishing—and, more important, of literature—is what happens to the 99 percent of books that...
Developments in the saga of the missing perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible, whose future is still unknown The Aleppo Codex, a bound book of approximately 500 parchment pages, was compiled in Tiberias around...
Boaz Huss‘ essay on The Theologies of Kabbalah Research will be in the February issue of Modern Judaism . Here is the opening paragraph: It is commonly accepted today that Gershom Scholem’s study of Kabbalah was shaped...
Paul Levy wrote an article for the latest issue of Tikkun magazine [29(1): 37], titled “Light Hidden in the Darkness: Kabbalah and Jungian Psychology” The first 10 paragraphs is available for non-subscribers too. Here...
In the current, Fall 2001, issue of Jewish Quarterly Review there are three essays dedicated to Kabbala, Jewish Mysticism. Let me quote below the beginning of the editorial introduction and then share the table of...
