Stella by Takis Würger
Translator: Liesl Schillinger In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming an artist. At a life drawing class, he is hypnotized by the...
Category: New Books
Spilt Milk by Courtney Zoffness
What role does a mother play in raising thoughtful, generous children? In her literary debut, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past—biologically, culturally, spiritually—and what we pass on to...
Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time by Saul Friedländer
This engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time considers how the narrator defines himself, how this compares to what we know of Proust himself, and what the significance is of these various points...
Transfer and Religion: Interactions Between Judaism, Christianity and Islam from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Sapientia Islamica Editors: Alexander A Dubrau, Davide Scotto, Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino This collaboration brings into conversation scholars of Jewish and Islamic studies, theologians, and cultural historians to shed new light on the enduring intertwining...
Missing Pieces – A Family Story Retold by M David Isaak, Beth Gerson
A large tattered envelope stuffed with letters and postcards written between 1934 and 1942 was discovered behind a sofa in my parents home. It contained correspondence written in German, Yiddish, and Hebrew by family...
Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes
When we came to America, we brought anger and socialism and hunger. We also brought our demons. In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women...
Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas: A Weekly Reading of the Hebrew Bible by Jonathan Sacks
What is Judaism? A religion? A faith? A way of life? A set of beliefs? A collection of commands? A culture? A civilization? It is all these, but it is emphatically something more. It...
The Life and Thought of Ze’ev Jawitz: “To Cultivate a Hebrew Culture” by Asaf Yedidya
Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory Ze’ev Jawitz (1847–1924) was one of the foremost intellectuals of the First Aliyah and a leader of the religious faction within the Hibbat Zion movement...
On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History by Nadine Fresco
In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian city of Liepaja, Nazi death squads (the Einsatzgruppen) and local collaborators murdered in three days more than 2,700 Jews. The majority were women and children,...
Rhapsody by Mitchell James Kaplan
One evening in 1924, Katharine “Kay” Swift–the restless but loyal society wife of wealthy banker James Warburg and a serious pianist who longs for recognition–attends a concert. The piece: Rhapsody in Blue. The composer:...
