Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare
In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill. Kel is...
Category: New Books
Global Jewish Plays: Five Works by Jewish Playwrights from around the World by Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker
Extinct; Heartlines; The Kahena Berber Queen; Papa’gina; A People (Methuen Drama Play Collections) A unique collection of plays that brings together stories of Jewish life from playwrights around the world. Curated and edited by...
Concentration by Arne Weingart
Suppose that a young Central European poet were to have been swept up into one of the World War II death camps. There were many such young women and men in the camps—the sheer...
Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York by Deborah Dash Moore
In the middle of the twentieth century, good cameras became smaller and lighter, enabling street photographers to roam alleyways, ride elevated trains and subways, and stroll beaches in summertime to capture daily life with...
Now You Are a Missing Person by Susan Hayden
Three devastating losses are at the heart of Susan Hayden’s lyrical memoir, Now You Are a Missing Person. The suddenness of each of these deaths ― her father, her childhood best friend and her...
Modern Jewish Theology: The First One Hundred Years, 1835–1935 by Samuel J. Kessler, George Y. Kohler (Editors)
JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought Modern Jewish Theology is the first comprehensive collection of Jewish theological ideas from the pathbreaking nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, featuring selections from more than thirty of the most...
Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil
A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life How do we relate to—and hold—our family’s past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art,...
Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 18 by Ilia Rodov
This volume focuses on the migration and acculturation of images in Jewish culture and how that reflects intercultural exchange. Gender aspects of Jewish art are also highlighted, as is the role of images in...
Sociology and the Holocaust: A Discipline Grapples with History by Ronald J Berger
For some time the conventional wisdom in the interdisciplinary field of Holocaust studies is that sociologists have neglected this subject matter, but this is not really the case. In fact, there has been substantial...
An Unlikely Guru: How a Neurotic Jewish Real Estate Developer from New Jersey Found Enlightenment (And How You Can, Too) by Chick Atkins
The answers to these questions and more can be found in this enlightening book. Its author, however, is the antithesis of the traditional spiritual guru. He dresses in business clothes rather than a robe...
