New Jewish Books
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...
World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens,...
Institutional Collections of Original Art An essential reference guide for learning where Arthur Szyk’s public works reside During his lifetime, Arthur Szyk (1894–1951)—the prolific Polish-Jewish artist celebrated for his exquisite miniature paintings, book illustrations,...
A fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, and a gripping account of the secret operation to rescue his last artworks. The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a...
