The Lost Girl from Belzec by Ravit Raufman
A little girl disappears from Belzec Camp without a trace. Will she survive the war on her own? Poland, 1942. At the very height of World War II, little Ruthie and her mother are...
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Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought by Ethan Kleinberg
Cultural Memory in the Present In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas’s Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while...
Barbed Wire University by Dave Hannigan
The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill’s internment of some...
Creating Community: The Jews of Springfield, Missouri by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
Creating Community expands the written histories of Springfield that have long overlooked this minority in the local community. It also adds to the growing study of small Jewish communities around the United States. Springfield...
Lies That Matter by Allan Gerson
A Federal Prosecutor and Child of Holocaust Survivors, Tasked with Stripping US Citizenship from Aged Nazi Collaborators, Finds Himself Caught in the Middle As the son of Holocaust survivors, federal prosecutor Allan Gerson thought...
In Praise of The Book That Chose to Speak to Me
A biased and committed review of Márk Mezei’s Zsidó Temetés (A Jewish Funeral), Kalligram, 2021 I don’t think I am quite the right person to be writing about the book. I was totally consumed...
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this poignant debut novel-in-verse. Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she’s...
Yael Bartana: The Book of Malka Germania; Edited by Shelley Harten, Gregor Lersch
She Is Hope. She Is the Leader. She Is the Messiah. She Is History. She Is Fake. The video artist Yael Bartana (b. Kfar Yehezkel, Israel, 1970; lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin)...
Jews and Gender by Leonard J. Greenspoon
Studies in Jewish Civilization Jews and Gender features sixteen authors exploring the history and culture of the intersection of Judaism and gender from the biblical world to today. Topics include subversive readings of biblical...
Going West: Migrating Personae and Construction of the Self in Rabbinic Culture by Reuven Kiperwasser
This new book by Reuven Kiperwasser examines the social, cultural, and religious aspects of third- to sixth-century narratives involving rabbinic figures migrating between Babylonia and Palestine. Kiperwasser draws on migration and mobility studies, comparative...
