New Jewish Books
Between Nihilism and Hope Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the...
The Myth of Psychology and the Evasion of Responsibility Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour The Therapized Antisemite seeks to determine the failure of psychology in the understanding and punishment of antisemitism. For over a...
The Story of Rose Schneiderman Illustrator: Giovanni Abeille A young Jewish immigrant from Poland, Rose Schneiderman went to work in a cap factory in New York City when she was just thirteen years old....
Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in...
Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. For many historians, the...
Straddling Black and White follows the story of brave, fourteen-year-old Azmera, who takes part in the mass immigration of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel in the 1980s. Azmera embarks on the treacherous journey to join...
Building Character, Shaping Perspectives, and Finding Happiness throughout Shabbat What unites a Russian refusenik, a US senator, a Parisian fashion designer, a world-famous behavioral psychologist, and a world championship boxer? What brings together prime...
In this book, Monika Amsler explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission. Scholars have posited that the...
A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust A thrilling mystery woven into a beautifully constructed family memoir: Meryl Frank’s journey to seek the truth...
This heartwarming, beautifully written middle-grade historical novel about an untold American frontier story is destined to be a cherished classic. North Dakota, 1905 After fleeing persecution in the Russian Empire, eleven-year-old Shoshana and her...
