New Jewish Books
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Editors: Samuel L. Adams, Greg Schmidt Goering, Matthew Goff In Sirach and Its Contexts an international cohort of experts on the book of Sirach locate...
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict Editors: Maryla Hopfinger, Tomasz Żukowski This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in which the Holocaust occurred. It inspects the category of the bystander...
Fans of the Penderwicks and the Vanderbeekers, meet the Finkel family in this middle grade novel about two autistic sisters, their detective agency, and life’s most consequential mysteries. When twelve-year-old Lara Finkel starts her...
This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer. Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography...
Janice Masur grew up in a tiny, remote European Jewish community in Kampala, Uganda, under British Imperial rule, with no rabbi or Jewish infrastructure. And yet, this community of only twenty-three families formed a...
In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and...
George David Schwab’s life began as a cosseted child leading a charmed and comfortable life in the 1930s. He recreates his childhood in pre-war Latvia, giving it vivid life in detailed memories of an...
A brilliantly modern take on Jewish culinary traditions for a new generation of readers, from a bright new star in the culinary world. When you think of Jewish food, a few classics come to...
Illustrated by Raquel Catalina When Benjy is born, his grandfather, a tailor, gives him a beautiful handmade blanket to keep him warm in his cot. As Benjy grows, he takes his blanket with him...
Mosaics: Studies on Ancient Israel This multidisciplinary study takes a fresh look at Judean history and biblical literature in the late fourth and third centuries BCE. In a major reappraisal of this era, the...
