New Jewish Books
Texts, Contexts, Reassessments Bohemian Jewish culture and literature during the underexamined 1820s to 1880s. This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the “quiet” decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period...
During a teenage adventure abroad, twins Petal and Rose find their lives diverging in ways they could not have imagined, highlighting the complexities of their relationship and a shrouded family history. Free-spirited Rose becomes...
Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace On the...
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,...
