New Jewish Books
A hilarious, heartfelt story about four lifelong friends determined to change their lives, come hell (terrible bosses, ex-husbands living next door) or high water (laundry…so much laundry) from the acclaimed author of Last Summer...
The Politics of Objectivity from William F. Albright to William G. Dever Copenhagen International Seminar This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism. While these scholars...
Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write. When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some...
Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah Translator: Batya Stein The connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one expression of...
The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory: The Crisis of Testimony in Theory and Practice re-considers survivor testimony, moving from a subject-object reading of the past to a subject-subject encounter in the present. It explores how...
Arthur Kurzweil grew up hearing his father’s tales of Dobromyl, the small town-a shtetl – in what is now Ukraine, which his father had left behind as a child when his family emigrated to...
In a small, seaside city on the Jersey Shore, three half-siblings confront the death of a distant and bullying patriarch. They now have the chance to imagine new relationships and new futures, ones that...
The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage Foreword: Paul Freedman A fascinating study that will appeal to both culinarians and readers interested in the intersecting histories of food, Sephardic Jewish culture,...
Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust presents interdisciplinary postmemorial endeavors of second-, third- and fourth-generation Holocaust survivors living in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora. Drawing on a wide range of...
Essays on Skepticism and the Search for Meaning Can a seeker also be a skeptic? Can one believe without renouncing the responsibility to doubt? These eight essays argue that the answer is yes. They...
