Kabbalah and Art by Leo Bronstein
Told as a series of reflections, this study traces links between cultures as diverse as pre-Vedic India and late 19th-century France. An array of unrelated artists are all in fact linked by the Kabbalah...
Category: Older Books
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
Editors: Ra’anan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for...
Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community by H. G. Adler
Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss (Editor), Belinda Cooper (Translator), Jeremy Adler (Afterword) First published in 1955, with a revised edition appearing five years later, H. G. Adler’s Theresienstadt, 1941-1945 is a foundational work in the field of...
The Messianic Secret of Hasidism by Mor Altshuler
This book describes a circle of Eastern European Kabbalists that established Hasidism, an important movement that has influenced Jewish Mysticism, Yiddish culture and Hebrew literature. It uncovers the messianic motivation, concealed in Hasidic writings...
The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Aczel
From the end of the 19th century until his death, one of history’s most brilliant mathematicians languished in an asylum. The Mystery of the Aleph tells the story of Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a Russian-born...
Sexual Symbolism and Merkavah Speculation in Medieval Germany: A Study of the Sod h-Egoz Texts by Daniel Abrams
This study offers a fresh reinvestigation to the Sod ha-Egoz texts, the earliest known commentaries to Ezekiel’s Chariot (Ma’aseh Merkavah) from the medieval Jewish mystics of Europe. The texts, ascribed to Eleazar of Worms...
All I Could Never Be by Anzia Yezierska
In this heartfelt novel, written in 1932, Fanya Ivanowna, a Polish Jew from New York’s Lower East Side, meets Henry Scott, a well-bred professor who first helps her fulfill her ambition to become a...
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved classic From the Mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long...
The Gilboa Iris by Zahava Englard
A timeless love story set against the backdrop of global terrorism Romance, subterfuge and espionage merge in an irresistible suspense plot branching between Europe, Israel and the U.S. Dara Harow, the daughter of a...
One Bridge to Life by William Samelson
In 1939, Samelson, now a professor at Trinity University (Tex.), was an 11-year old violin prodigy living in Poland. A year later, he had a secret bar mitzvah in a Nazi labor camp. His...
