Half Empty Paperback by David Rakoff
The book at Amazon and on Kindle Rakoff died of cancer in August 2012 at the age of 47, and the final book published during his lifetime (his last novel will be published posthumously...
Category: Older Books
The Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa by Vladimir Jabotinsky
The book at Amazon and on Kindle. One staple of the classic, often hagiographic, biographies of Vladimir Jabotinsky is the idea that his life was split into two while his transformation from a Russian...
Yiddish-English edition of The Dybbuk, by S. An-sky
Tsiterboym Books announces the publication of the first bilingual Yiddish-English edition of The Dybbuk, by S. An-sky. Translation by Fernando Peñalosa. 202 pp., introduction, notes. Size: 9 x 6 inches. $13.14, available from Amazon.com....
They Called Her Rebbe
They Called Her Rebbe After a solitary girlhood, Chana Rochel argued with her father, rabbis, and yeshiva-bocher fiancée for the right to study the way men do, jettisoning “the noodle board,” in the words...
Elior: Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism, and Folklore (2008)
You can read on lots of sites the standard description of Rachel Elior‘s book from last year: Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism, and Folklore, and I will share it at the...
Mendel: Dancing in the Footsteps of Eve (2009)
Hot Indie News‘ review of Heather Mendel‘s new book, “Dancing in the Footsteps of Eve: Retrieving the Healing Gift of the Sacred Feminine for the Human Family through Myth and Mysticism”, devotes one paragraph...
Hecker: Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals (2005)
Last summer’s issue of the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture has an indepth review of Joel Hecker’s Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah, “the first book-length study of mystical...
