New Jewish Books
David Malkiel, Bar-Ilan University From Renaissance to Risorgimento, the Hebrew tombstones of Padua express the cultural currents of their age, in text and art. The inscriptions are mainly rhymed and metered poems, about life, love...
Sennacherib at the Gates of JerusalemStory, History and HistoriographyEdited by Isaac Kalimi, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Seth Richardson, University of Chicago Sennacherib and his ill-fated siege of Jerusalem fascinated the ancient world. Twelve scholars—in...
Add to your bookshelf’s “Undead” section The Color of Light, Helen Maryles Shankman’s debut novel. This vampire tale is set in an art school that closely resembles the New York Academy of Art, which...
Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and TraumaFederica K. Clementi; Shulamit Reinharz, fwd.Brandeis University Press, 2013. 392 pp. $40.00 In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted...
Here is an authentic Jewish meditations workbook, with clear, systematic instructions, exploring these questions and MUCH more, enabling both layman and scholar to derive immediate benefit from a hands-on spiritual manual.In over eighteen chapters...
In her latest novel, Alice Hoffman renders the brutal world of Lower East Side immigrants in the romantic hues her readers expect …None of the extraordinary things in The Museum of Extraordinary Things, the new...
The Parable and Its Lesson: A NovellaS. Y. Agnon; James S. Diamond, trans.Stanford University Press, 2014. 176 pp. $19.95 S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew...
The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History (Brandeis, 2013) mixes lesser-known writings with some of his classic essays. What emerges out of this mix is a clear...
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah MirskyYale University Press, 2014. 288 pp. $25.00 Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the...
In his new book Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History, Rutgers University Jewish Studies Professor Jeffrey Shandler, who has a particular interest in Yiddish culture, examines how the original meaning of shtetl has morphed and...
