New Jewish Books
Editors: Jeffers Engelhardt, Philip Bohlman Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world....
Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award–Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship At once a study of biblical theology and modern Jewish thought, this volume describes...
Our Story Book explains through photographs and stories how/why Jewish culture changed the world. Our Jewish culture, although small in number (14 million today) impacted the world in politics, science, art and religion. Photographer...
The disappearance of his great-uncle Samuel during World War II has shaped the life of the young university lecturer, Shmulik Kaplan. As part of his Master’s Thesis on the history of German between the...
This book is an invitation to explore creative ways to photograph God in all that happens in your everyday life while crafting a vibrant dialogue between your story and the biblical narrative. Photographing God...
It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the...
The Inspiring True Story of Tibor “Teddy” Rubin–Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient Hardcover From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this...
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Rabinowitz Estrin, features an interview with Susan Krawitz about her middle grade novel Viva, Rose, based on her own family’s history...
In pursuit of her Master’s degree in Imperial Russian History, 24 year-old Molly Abramovitz is heading to Moscow for a week long seminar. Never one to miss an opportunity for genealogical research; methodical and...
A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little...
