People of the Image: Jews and Art by Marc Michael Epstein
Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination The Middle Ages provide us with one of the richest repositories of art in the West. Yet the rise in the production of art made for and by...
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The Master Jeweler by Weina Dai Randel
From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Night Angels comes the epic story of a brilliant young woman’s dangerous rise to fame in the perilous world of jewelry in 1920s Shanghai―and the power...
The Scrapbook by Heather Clark
The traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism echo and reverberate through the present in this story of a lifechanging seduction. Harvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she falls hard...
Final Judgement and the Dead in Medieval Jewish Thought by Susan Weissman
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer ḥasidim, Susan Weissman documents a major transformation in Jewish attitudes and practices regarding the dead...
The Jewish South: An American History by Shari Rabin
A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to today In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to “Jews, heathens, and other...
Jews in the Soviet Union by Elissa Bemporad
A History: Revolution, Civil War, and New Ways of Life, 1917–1930, Volume 1 Chronicles the encounter of one of the largest Jewish communities in the world with war, revolution, and Soviet power from 1917...
Mastering the Mind: A Guide to Focused Learning and Torah Retention by Saul Clarke
In a world with instant and unlimited access to almost all human knowledge, with more distractions and less time than ever before, Torah mastery and truly focused learning is becoming increasingly rare and difficult...
The Broken Vase by Yaffa Klugerman
On a sunny May afternoon in Silver Spring, Maryland, Yaffa Klugerman’s 14-year-old son, Dov, crossed the street from his school to his home and was hit by a car. He was rushed to the...
Planting Seeds of the Divine by Yiscah Smith
Torah Commentaries to Cultivate Your Spiritual Practice Experiencing deep personal fulfillment, happiness, and sustenance comes from feeling connected to our authentic selves, which involves building an ongoing relationship with the Divine Presence within us,...
Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor? by Michal Oron
The Eighteenth-Century Ba’al Shem of London Translated by Edward Levin With an introduction by Todd M. Endelman The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization The enigmatic kabbalist Samuel Falk, known as the Ba’al Shem of...
