Siberian Summer by Raisa Borovsky
This is a vivid, true story of Soviet Russia during the last decades of the USSR. It provides a lesser-known insider’s view that breaks stereotypes. As a daring memoir of a young woman searching...
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Moses Maimonides: A Very Short Introduction by Ross Brann
Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his death, the meaning of his...
Reading across Cultures: Translating Romances, Fables, and Poetry in Medieval Ashkenaz by Caroline Gruenbaum
Reading across Cultures explores a body of innovative Jewish literary works from the Middle Ages. In late twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenaz―the Jewish communities in northern France, Germany, and England―Jewish authors translated several Old French and German...
Russian-Speaking Jews as a Political Body: A Global Perspective by Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin, Olaf Glöckner (Editors)
Jewish Identities in a Changing World Since 1989 Russian-speaking Jews, often raised and socialized in the Soviet Union, have “dispersed” in great numbers to Western countries and Israel. Even there, they retain their own...
Fragmented Geographies: A Short Critical Anthology of Jewish Women’s Writing in the Balkans and Latin America
Edited by Oana Hergenröther, Marjorie Agosín, Jelena Filipovic Love, Loss, and Life between the Biobío and the Danubio This anthology embraces a physical stretch of land, sea, mountain, marsh, desert, and woods that lies...
Behind the Trigger by Yariv Inbar
A Psychological Spy Novel About Two Women on Opposite Sides of Deception Translated by Dalit Shmueli What if one impossible decision during a suspenseful mission shattered everything you believed about your past? Set deep...
Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah by Jane Kanarek
HBI Series on Jewish Women A feminist reading of one of the most troubling tractates of the Talmud. Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud as...
October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds by Asaf Romirowsky, Donna Robinson Divine (Editors)
October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds is a collection of essays by scholars that seeks to analyze how words and imagery used to categorize the violence and savagery of the October 7th assaults...
Zaidy’s Band: The Untold Stories of a Jewish Band of Brothers in World War II by Aron Heller
In Zaidy’s Band, Aron Heller chronicles his extensive journey with his grandfather Mickey Heller — his Zaidy — to uncover Mickey’s mysterious wartime past and the untold stories of his Jewish Canadian band of...
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman
Both a love letter to America and a stirring rallying cry for the country to live up to the ideals on which it was founded, this propulsive biography from National Book Award Finalist and...
