The Passover Cowboy by Barbara Diamond Goldin
Last year, Jacob and his family had been in Russia, but this year they were in the new land of Argentina. Jacob hoped his new friend Benito would join them for the seder. Would...
Category: New Books
Americans and the Birth of Israel by Lawrence J. Epstein
Americans and the Birth of Israel tells the dramatic story of how a ragtag group of Americans of all religions worked, often in secret and facing the possibility of arrest and imprisonment, to make...
The (unofficial) Hogwarts Haggadah by Moshe Rosenberg
Aviva Shur (Designer) What could a School of Witchcraft and Wizardry possibly have in common with the most published book in Jewish history and the most celebrated holiday of the Jewish calendar? As it...
A Different Kind of Passover by Linda Leopold-Strauss
Jessica loves spending Passover with her grandparents. But this year, Grandpa is sick and can’t lead the seder like he always does. Jessica knows Passover won’t be the same. But maybe she can find...
Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology; The Malleable Self and the Presence of God byTyson L. Putthoff
In Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology, Tyson L. Putthoff explores early Jewish beliefs about how the human self reacts ontologically in God’s presence. Combining contemporary theory with sound exegesis, Putthoff demonstrates that early...
Akim Volynsky; A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet by Helen Tolstoy
In Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet Helen Tolstoy goes far beyond the accepted image of Akim Volynsky as a controversial literary critic of the 1890s who ran the first journal of Russian Symbolists,...
Medieval Midrash: The House for Inspired Innovation by Bernard H. Mehlman and Temple Israel
Medieval Midrash: The House for Inspired Innovation is the first book-length study of this under-examined genre of Jewish Literature. Mehlman and Limmer cover the history of scholarship of these curious texts and evaluate the...
The Proselyte and the Prophet; Character Development in Targum Ruth byChristian M. M. Brady,
The Proselyte and the Prophet: Character Development in Targum Ruth by Christian M. M. Brady is an exegetical study of Targum Ruth with a focus upon the transformation of the biblical characters into exemplars...
No Stories to Tell by Steve Sherr
At the end of the tumultuous 1960s, Steve Sherr, a young university psychologist finds himself drowning in a sea of relative values and political correctness. Battling growing disenchantment with his profession as well as...
Hybrid Judaism: Irving Greenberg, Encounter, and the Changing Nature of American Jewish Identity by Darren Kleinberg
American Jewish identity has changed significantly over the course of the past half century. During this time, Irving Greenberg developed a unique theology that anticipated David Hollinger’s notion of postethnicity and represents a compelling...
