New Jewish Books
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 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...
Edited by Franziska Davies, Michael Brenner and Martin Schulze Wessel The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union were multiethnic and multireligious empires, which ruled over a large number of Jews and Muslims. In many...
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...
Oy vey! When elderly mystery writer Agatha Krinsky falls for the fifth time, her nephew Sheldon insists she move into an assisted living facility. True to form, on her first day in her new...
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 Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, is pleased to announce a new digital resource. Fifty of our Hebrew manuscripts have been digitized, with indices and metadata. This project is a work-in-progress, eventually...
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...
In most windows I saw people working and children playing. When the soldiers came, people began covering their windows, so I couldn’t see inside anymore. But the tiny attic window of the narrow brick...
Edward Levin (Translator) The postmodernist experience is associated with a strong interest in the concepts of saints and religious genius. In this volume, Dov Schwartz considers the questions related to these ideas through his...
