New Jewish Books
Webster’s bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the...
Looks at areas including post-medieval renewal, the Safed revival, the piety of Askenazic women, the strategies of modern faith, revelation and the Bible, Zionism and the contemporary renewal of Jewish spirituality.
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) is without question a “master” of Jewish studies, particularly Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah. Indeed, he once commented that when he began his studies, “All I found were scattered, shabby pages, and...
Andrei Orlov examines the tradition about the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch, tracing its development from its roots in the Mesopotamian lore to the Second Temple apocalyptic texts and later rabbinic and Hekhalot materials where...
Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images...
Translator: Jeffrey M. Green This book is a study of the Habad Hasidism movement, an influential part of the Hasidic Movement, which originated in the eigteenth century. Habad was founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman...
In this collection of essays, we encounter a scholar passionately concerned with the cultural and spiritual renaissance of the Jewish people in its own land, a scholar whose concerns encompass issues of the cultural...
In this book, one of the world’s leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience. Moshe Idel calls upon his profound knowledge of ancient and medieval texts...
Editor: Meir Hanegbi Translators: Edward Levine, Tuvia Natkin, Yaacov David Shulman Learning from the Tanya offers a key for unlocking the mysteries of one of the most extraordinary books of moral teachings ever written....
the background of what has become known as ceremonial magic is medieval Jewish magic. In turn this was based on the Kabbalah, the Jewish traditions known as Haggadah, and other esoteric beliefs. This is...
A Karakas Speaks by C.M. Kosemen
The Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker: My Father’s Holocaust Odyssey by Scott M. Neuman
Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered by Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Global Jewish Foodways: A History by Hasia R. Diner & Simone Cinotto