New Jewish Books
Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe A groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal life In small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish...
Illustrator: Alexandra Colombo My Body Can showcases all the different talents bodies have throughout the year. Inclusive of a variety of body types and abilities, the body-positive message affirms that everyone is beautiful, powerful,...
An authoritative guide to Jewish studies, reflecting the latest research in a diverse and flourishing field Jewish studies is a dynamic, interdisciplinary field that draws on the methods of the modern academy—historical research, anthropology,...
Essays by Bernard Avishai and Joanna Podolska A photographic tribute that highlights the stories behind remnants of Jewish communal life in post-war Poland, western Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia. In 1992 Canadian documentary filmmaker and...
Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg declared there were only two great Holocaust heroes — the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Mordechai Anielewicz) and Rudolf Vrba. After he escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau in April of 1944,...
The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern design Ella Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt...
Translator, Introduction: Adi Mahalel In late 1920s Palestine, Zalmen has just arrived at Jaffa port on his way to a small northern kibbutz. Young and idealistic, he hopes to put down roots and help...
Thoughts on Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature by Miriam Udel How do you contain an explosion? If it is ideas you put them in a book, connect the bright sparks, and make...
Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today The Devil’s Castle delves into the forgotten history of eugenics and links it to present-day psychiatry to explain how we as a culture continue...
The Hebrew Experience and the Globalization of Modern Sports in Interwar Palestine This original and thought-provoking study offers a fresh perspective on Zionism by exploring Hebrew culture’s ambivalent attitude toward modern sports. Drawing on...
