Happily Jewish! by Michael Levin
Finding Actionable Spirituality In Judaism (Of All Places!) Happily Jewish blows the dust off texts formerly inaccessible to anyone but Orthodox Jews and offers a wealth of guidance about how to live a more...
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Maybe Once, Maybe Twice by Alison Rose Greenberg
Filled with the romance and angst that defines the years you come to know yourself, with a shifting timeline covering two decades and ratcheting up the tension, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice is a novel...
Interiority and Law: Bahya ibn Paquda and the Concept of Inner Commandments by Omer Michaelis
Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism Interiority and Law presents a groundbreaking reassessment of a medieval Jewish classic, Baḥya ibn Paquda’s Guide to the Duties of the Hearts. Michaelis reads this work anew as a...
The Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales by Jay Michaelson
A provocative collection of interconnected tales, bridging the worlds of mysticism and heresy, faith and desire—from the award-winning author of Everything is God and The Heresy of Jacob Frank. The Secret That Is Not...
The Promise by Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams
Illustrator: Cinzia Battistel A garden is a prayer. It is also a promise. In a Moroccan village, a Jewish boy and a Muslim boy are best friends. Jacob and Hassan play together every day...
Owning Disaster: Coping with Catastrophe in Abrahamic Narrative Traditions by Aaron M. Hagler
Delving into the intertwined tapestry of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sacred texts, exegesis, philosophy, theology, and historiography, this book explores the similar coping mechanisms across Abrahamic communities in reconciling the implications of disasters without...
Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making by Noam Lemish
Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally. An impressive number of Israeli jazz...
Jewish Mindfulness for Kids by Blanca Sissa
Illustrator: Camila Carrossine The exercises in this book use everyday Jewish items to inspire mindfulness in children. Imagine you have a piece of fresh challah in one hand and a spoonful of hot chicken...
Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America by Jonathan Karp (Editor)
The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review The concept of ethnicity, once in vogue, has largely gone out of fashion among twenty-first-century social scientists, now replaced by models of assimilation defined in...
Kafka’s Son by Szilárd Borbély
Translator: Ottilie Mulzet The Hungarian List A posthumously published Hungarian masterpiece that reflects on fragmented lives. Born in 1963, Szilárd Borbély emerged as one of the most important poets of post-communist Europe, exploring the...
