New Jewish Books
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Something crucial and quite unprecedented happened to kabbalah in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Though it had previously been considered a highly secretive and esoteric tradition, its practitioners...
Tradition in an Untraditional Age, first published in 1990, explores the challenges of secularisation, assimilation and antisemitism, through analyses of thinkers including R. Samson Raphael Hirsch, R. Moses Sofer, R. Abraham Isaac Kook, R....
The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique Combining political theory and sociological interviews spanning four countries, Israel, the USA, Canada and the UK, Ilan Zvi Baron explores the Jewish Diaspora/Israel relationship and suggests that instead...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization From its first appearance, the Zohar has been one of the most sacred, authoritative, and influential books in Jewish culture. Many scholarly works have been dedicated to its...
Review of the first volume of the Hoshiyan Chronicles by Dr. Barry Nadel Have you ever noticed the tendency of nationalistic politicians and historians to create a heroic, great past for their homeland? It...
In this first-ever biography of Colonel John Patterson, Denis Brian reveals his subject to be a diverse composite of identities. An Irishborn soldier, lion hunter, bridge builder, East African game warden, author, and Zionist,...
A Woman’s Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1943 At the end of 1944, while World War II was still raging, nineteen-year-old Renia Kukielka published her Hebrew language memoir about the Holocaust. The account may well...
This ground-breaking book exposes a taboo aspect of Holocaust history; the sexual abuse of children. Children were sexually assaulted in ghettos, camps, on transit trains, while in hiding, and even when sent to supposed...
Psalms 120 to 134 in the Worship of Jerusalem’s Temples Codes hidden for 3,000 years unveil the origin of the fifteen Songs of Ascents.Mysterious marks in medieval manuscripts disclose the lost temple song.Rabbinic traditions...
From Jewish Broadcasting Service: After a long hiatus, the popular ZOA Book Club is back, hosted by ZOA Director of Special Projects Liz Berney. This edition features famed attorney and mediation/dispute resolution expert Kenneth...
