New Jewish Books
Edited by Oded Nir, Joel Wainwright The Middle East seems to be in perpetual crisis. One might expect a plethora of Marxist analyses of Israel and Palestine. Yet in the literature on Israel and...
The Southeast Europe and Black Sea Series Edited by Kateřina Králová, Marija Vulesica, Giorgos Antoniou This anthology brings together eight chapters which examine the life of Jews in Southeast Europe through political, social and...
Edited and translated by Miriam Udel Foreword: Jack Zipes An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems enhanced with original illustrations While there has been a recent boom in Jewish literacy and learning...
Foreword by Jonathan D. SarnaDeveloped by Peri Devaney Strangers and Natives: A Newspaper Narrative of Early Jewish America, 1734 – 1869 focuses on the daily life and customs of the Jewish community and the Jewish...
Editors: Bashir Bashir, Leila Farsakh Religion, Culture, and Public Life Nineteenth-century Europe turned the political status of its Jewish communities into the “Jewish Question,” as both Christianity and rising forms of nationalism viewed Jews...
Letters of a Liberal Rabbi To His Children and the Millennial Generation Presented in the form of letters from a rabbi to his sons, Why Israel (and its Future) Matters) makes the case to...
Edited By Nicholas Peter Legh Allen, Pierre J. Jordaan, József Zsengellér This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers...
The Book of Esther has inspired and impacted the American project since its very inception. Rabbis and ethicists, abolitionists and artists, preachers and presidents, have understood the text to speak to their moment. It...
Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein’s father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died after Kristallnacht, and, upon...
The Book of Jonah is a unique text in the Jewish canon. Among the shortest books in the Bible, it is also one of the most mysterious and morally ambiguous. Who is this prophet running...
