New Jewish Books
Oxford Handbooks The Septuagint is the term commonly used to refer to the corpus of early Greek versions of Hebrew Scriptures. The collection is of immense importance in the history of both Judaism and...
Louis and Jenni Böhm were a middle-class Jewish couple who established a thriving business and raised a family in a small country town in Upper Silesia in 1885. The book follows the fortunes of...
The Greek empire. A Jewish rebellion. A musically gifted girl strives to overcome the brutal siege of a contested land. Maccabean Israel, 135 BCE. Judean orphan Keziah has been traumatized by a savage war....
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into...
Foreword: Michael Berenbaum Holocaust survivor Max Glauben is on a mission—to outlast hate, to preserve memory, and to compel the world to embrace tolerance. The stench of decay pierced the air aboard the boxcar...
Intellectual History of the Modern Age For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In this theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for...
In the first three months I added 81 books to this site. Here are the top 5 most popular/visited books from the same period: Contested Holiness: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Perspective on the Temple...
What war destroys, only love can heal. Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the...
In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Convinced by the latest jump in the price of kosher...
Edited by Jeffrey H. Tigay and Adele Berlin The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 1, covers the earliest period of Jewish civilization, from the second millennium BCE through 332 BCE. Organized...
