New Jewish Books
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Illustrator: Martín Morón In this fractured fairy tale mash-up that explains the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Bid Bad Wolf struggles to understand whether he has the capacity for change, and in the process...
Studies in Jewish Civilization Jews and Urban Life recognizes that throughout their long history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a...
How Courageous Women Rescued an Orphaned Girl from French Concentration Camps The life of Lore Schindler, an orphaned Jewish girl who was rescued from a concentration camp by two courageous women. Lore Schindler was...
Illustrators: Nava Chefitz, Gracen Deerman, Laura Spero While in the archives room of the Siena Municipal Public Library, I noticed a cardboard box labeled “Lorenzini?” Since Lorenzini wrote Pinocchio under the pen-name Collodi, I...
A fascinating look at Abraham, the founder of the Israelite nation, and largely considered the originator of the revolutionary religious philosophy of ethical monotheism. In this work, Jonathan Grossman’s unveils layers of complexity in...
