New Jewish Books
Chaim Waxman, the pre-eminent sociologist of contemporary Orthodoxy, is one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. Having written on various aspects of this subject over the past forty years, he now revisits...
In his newest edition of The Book of Life: A Transformative Guide to the High Holidays, Rabbi Eliezer Hirsch provides fresh insight and upends common misconceptions about Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. This guide...
In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Portuguese-Jewish community for “abominable heresies” and “monstrous deeds,” the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family’s import business to dedicate his life to philosophy. He quickly became notorious...
A Suspenseful Saga of Nazi Intrigue and Divine Providence Across Two Continents and Two Generations Yitzchak Austerlitz, a Holocaust survivor who lost his first wife and three children, visits Yad Vashem and collapses in...
In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous...
“On the day after Yom Kippur, as he did every year, the old Rabbi shaped a Golem from a mound of clay.” So begins this powerful fable about a man of clay who tries...
Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challenge religious themes in their...
Illustrator: Sonja Wimmer When Flory’s ancestors are forced to leave Spain during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, they take with them their two most precious possessions―the key to their old house and the...
With: Magdalena Janosikova Before the Enlightenment, before Spinoza had rejected traditional beliefs about the Bible, came the humanistic skeptics of the Renaissance. Alongside oft-cited Christian thinkers, Eliezer Eilburg now takes his rightful place. Comparable...
An Introduction to the Concepts and Prayers of the Holiest Days in the Jewish Year The Yamim Noraim (high holy days) are the most intense Synagogue holidays of the year . Many new prayers...
