New Jewish Books
The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture The Gaon of Vilna was the foremost intellectual leader of non-Hasidic Jewry in eighteenth-century Europe; his legacy is claimed...
A Woman’s Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1943 At the end of 1944, while World War II was still raging, nineteen-year-old Renia Kukielka published her Hebrew language memoir about the Holocaust. The account may well...
Chicago, August 1968: a hot town. The Democrats are gathered for their national convention to nominate a candidate for President. Thousands of young people are in the streets to protest America’s involvement in the...
He who turns his ear away from hearing the Torah – even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28-9 Melbourne 1999- Ezra and Yonatan are best friends whose lives are forever changed when their...
Answering a Question with More Questions Psyche and Soul Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and change-within-continuity...
Illustrator: Andrés Vera Martínez National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman and acclaimed illustrator Andrés Vera Martínez present a graphic novel exploring the Holocaust through surreal visions and a textured canvas of heroism and hope....
A Dark Urban Fantasy Adventure (Yancy Lazarus) Levi Adams is a soft spoken, middle-aged Mennonite man—at least he tries to be when he’s not murdering people.Levi’s a golem, a Mudman, crafted from the muck,...
For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us...
There is a lively discussion in contemporary philosophy that explores the meaning of life or, more modestly, meaning in life. Philosophers, for the most part, assume that religion has little to contribute to this...
A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi...
