New Jewish Books
By July of 1944, nearly 600,000 Hungarian Jews had been ripped from their homes and deported to Auschwitz, victims of a fate that claimed the lives of millions by the end of the Second...
Illustrator: Hector Borlasca Oy vey! Such bad mazel you are having. You tripped, banged your shnoz and fell on your tuchus. Then, oy vey is mir, you lost your vocab notebook the day before the big test! But don t worry,...
Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Editor: Isabelle Rozenbaumas; Translator: Jonathan Layton In The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922–2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught...
Editor: Elisheva Carlebach Series Editor: Deborah Dash Moore A landmark project to collect, translate, and transmit primary material from a momentous period in Jewish culture and civilization, this volume covers what Elisheva Carlebach describes...
Translator: Stefan Hoffman Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, disease, and exhaustion, and some were killed by criminals...
Nine countries. Nine lessons. One epic journey. From orphanages in Sri Lanka to silent meditation in Thailand; from fasting in India to temples in the Himalayas; from extreme martial arts in Korea, China, and...
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries The...
Whatever you’ve heard of Hebrew knowledge, linguist and cultural anthropologist Jeremy Benstein will take you on a journey into the deep significance of Hebrew in the life of Jews and Judaism. With fluency a...
A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website editor. At first, they stick to the standard fare: Did you always know you would be a writer?...
Rabbi Y. Landy’sUncovering Sefer Yirmiyahu is not just another commentary. It raises the reader to a new level of understanding by synchronizing Tanach and Chazal with archaeological evidence and modern scientific research. It enters the...
