New Jewish Books
In offering a comprehensive account of Syria’s key Jewish communities at an important juncture in their history, this pioneering study – now available in paperback – also throws light on the broader effects of...
Harvey Sheldon’s History of Jewish Comedy reveals the Jewish contributions to American comedy. What made the Jewish comedians so popular with American audiences? Comedy has always been a distinguishing characteristic of the Jewish people....
What we do in shul is central to our Avodas Hashem. It also shapes and develops our hearts and minds to become closer to Him, and better to our fellow man. In our days,...
Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and...
This Purim/Lent I am giving away a genealogy/adoption chapbook for five days on Kindle, Friday, March 14th – Tuesday, March 18th. Here’s a description:“Reunions in Spring: Meditations for a Holiday Table” is based on...
Susana Weich-Shahak, has just won the European Prize for Folklore for her work on the Moroccan Sephardic Romancero, published 2013. This is an anthology of Judeo-Spanish ballads from the Spanish romancero tradition that have...
The first The Whole Megillah Seminar on Jewish Story, together with the Association of Jewish Libraries, is planned for Sunday, May 18, 2014 at Temple Emanu-El in New York City. The full-day event features several panels: Keynotes:...
Acknowledged as one of the finest and most important in the world, the British Library’s Hebrew manuscripts collection is a vivid testimony to the creativity and intense scribal activities of Eastern and Western Jewish...
We usually think of historical fiction as storytelling that attempts to simulate the events and atmosphere of the past—but what if historical fiction recreated not the past itself, but the historian’s process of trying...
Peter and Martine Halban run England’s most cosmopolitan and finely curated Jewish and Middle Eastern-themed literary press …One of the surprising things about Motherland is that it was an unsurprising choice for its publisher,...
