New Jewish Books
The literature on Zionism as a political ideology is extensive, but this book takes a different approach by focusing on the cultural dimensions of the movement and their profound impact on the history of...
A candid, thought-provoking exploration of contemporary women’s experiences of religious conversion and the relationship between faith and fulfillment in our time Religious involvement has been declining in the West for decades—and, though men have...
Translator: Jody Gladding European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go...
Routledge Philosophy Companions The Routledge Companion to Jewish Philosophy is a deep and broad reference that brings diverse perspectives to bear on the key topics, problems, and debates in Jewish philosophy and philosophical theology. The...
Illustrator: Lisa Anchin Annie Cohen Kopchovsky was ready to ride her bicycle. Not to the market.Not around the block.Not across town.Annie was going to ride her bike all theway around the world. In 1894,...
A dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery―and fought the Civil War. Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been...
Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity This Element explores constructions of Israelite identity among Jewish, Samaritan Israelites, and Christian authors in Late Antiquity, especially early Late Antiquity. It identifies three major strategies for claiming...
A bold, new history of British Jewish life since the Second World War. Historian Gavin Schaffer wrestles Jewish history away from the question of what others have thought about Jews, focusing instead on the...
“Goodbye, Tahrir Square” is a first-person memoir written from the standpoint of a Jewish boy growing up in Egypt during the watershed years that shaped the Middle East into the powder keg it is...
Detroit, 1960. Lila Pereira is two years old when her angry, abusive father has her mother committed to an asylum. Lila never sees her mother again. Three decades later, having mustered everything she has—brains,...
