New Jewish Books
Fascinating Zmanim and Calendar Calculations Which Shemoneh Esrei was last recited in the year 1994, and won’t be recited again until 2089? Why is it that some people’s nineteenth Hebrew birthday does not fall...
Writing the Jewish Self explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family as it grapples with the meaning of its Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-conversionary...
Illustrator: Álvaro Sarraseca It’s been years since the Nazis invaded Max Rosen’s home country of Poland. All the Jewish people, including Max’s family, have been forced to live in a ghetto. At least Max...
Jews being Jewish: that’s the subject of Jennifer Anne Moses’ new collection of short stories. Whether in Tel Aviv, suburban New Jersey, or the Deep South, the characters who populate the pages of THE...
In 2004, Sherri Mandell won the National Jewish Book award for The Blessing of the Broken Heart, which told of her grief and initial mourning after her 13-year-old son Koby was brutally murdered. Years...
In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and...
This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary manifestations of the discrimination of Jews. It documents the religious, sociological, political and economic contexts in which antisemitism thrived and thrives and shows...
From the New York Times bestselling author of over 40 books comes Barbara Bottner’s I am Here Now – a beautiful novel in verse set in the 1960’s about one artist’s coming of age....
Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Semantic studies of the Biblical Hebrew verb שׁלם have been influenced by those of its most invoked nominal form שָׁלוֹם. In this volume Andrew Chin Hei Leong shows...
Routledge Jewish Studies Series Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone,...
