New Jewish Books
Encountering Edward Said and the Late-Style Jewish Prophetic in the New Diaspora Designer: Alicia Beebe Encountering Edward Said on Yom Kippur: Reflections on the Late-Style Jewish Prophetic is a fascinating and controversial collection of...
When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to...
Illustrator: Polina Solomodenko “Only the closed circle, Mendel, has power, because the closed circle can keep us whole.”When Mendel’s father imparts these words to him, the boy does not at first grasp their full...
Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother’s grief, and his father’s violent...
Portrayal of Jews in Dutch French-Language Periodicals (1680–1715) The present study focuses on the way that Jews were portrayed in various scholarly journals and lay gazettes published in French in the United Provinces of...
A Retrospective View of Their Holocaust Experiences This volume comprehensively explores the life trajectories of nine child/adolescent Holocaust concentration camp survivors as recollected when the subjects were elders. Based on extensive face to face...
Experience the chagim with a deeper and enriched spiritual perspective with this thoughtful analysis of the Shalosh Regalim (the three major festivals in Judaism). Did you ever wonder why the Torah groups Pesach Shavuot,...
Ancient Israel and Its Literature The book of Hosea is a labyrinth of juxtaposed images for God and God’s people, with such disparate metaphors as God the devouring lion and God the reviving dew....
The Sonderkommando―the “special squad” of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau―comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. As eyewitnesses...
Sally Sterling never intended to embrace the Judaism of her ancestors, but after her first love and Catholic college sweetheart broke her heart, the surprising salve for her sadness appears when she stumbles into...
