Category: New Books

Arthur Green: Hasidism for Tomorrow

Arthur Green: Hasidism for Tomorrow

Edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes Introduction by Ariel Evan Mayse Arthur Green is Rector of the post-denominational Rabbinical School and Irving Brudnick Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Religion at Hebrew College...

The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, edited by Robert Alter

The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, edited by Robert Alter

The largest English-language collection to date from Israel’s finest poet Few poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth century, Amichai created remarkably...

The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion by Bryan K. Roby

The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion by Bryan K. Roby

Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966 During the postwar period of 1948-56, over 400,000 Jews from the Middle East and Asia immigrated to the newly established state of Israel. By the end of the...

History, Memory, and Jewish Identity

History, Memory, and Jewish Identity

Edited by Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn and Lorenzo DiTommaso This volume takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is...

The Safest Lie by Angela Cerrito

The Safest Lie by Angela Cerrito

This powerful historical novel tells the story of a young girl who is smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto and struggles to both hide and hold onto her Jewish identity. In 1940, nine-year-old Anna...