New Jewish Books
The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah Rabbi Jill Hammer has taken ancient Jewish mystical text and transformed it into a contemporary guide for meditative practice. In Return to the Place, Rabbi Hammer guides...
An old Jewish folktale in a modern-day library… with a magical librarian! Stevie craves quiet until he meets Miss Understood, a magical librarian whose books come to life and wreak havoc, in this...
Studies in Antisemitism Jennifer Craig-Norton sets out to challenge celebratory narratives of the Kindertransport that have dominated popular memory as well as literature on the subject. According to these accounts, the Kindertransport was a...
This book unpacks the history of British-Israelism in the UK. Remarkably, this subject has had very little attention: remarkable, because at its height in the post-war era, the British-Israelist movement could claim to have...
Shaul Ringler’s life long fascination with flight began when he was a young boy in Tel Aviv, running along the banks of the Yarkon river, flying his kite. When he looked up, he knew...
Intertwined Narratives of Sexuality, Gender, Body Image, and Jewish Identity Foreword by Rabbanit Dasi FruchterIntroduction by Sara Rozner Lawrence A collection of first-person poetry and prose designed to break the observant Jewish community’s taboo against...
Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature Perspectives on Israel Studies In From Schlemiel to Sabra Philip Hollander examines how masculine ideals and images of the New Hebrew man shaped the Israeli state. In this innovative book,...
Religious Awakening and National Identities Formation, 1815–1861 This book focuses on the national conceptualization of Judaism and Jews by German neo-Pietists from the early Restoration (1815) until the New Era (neue Ära, 1858-1861), at...
In Judges: The Perils of Possession, Rabbi Michael Hattin offers a highly readable introduction to the biblical book of Judges that combines imaginative sweep with analytic depth. Utilizing literary techniques, ancient and modern commentaries,...
The Torah offers us various paradigms of the earliest leaders of the Jewish people so that we can reflect upon their lives and leadership and thereby they and we can provide incentive and directIon...
