New Jewish Books
Common Ground, by Rabbi Arieh Friedner, is a transformative guide to unlocking the secret of Jewish unity. Drawing from decades of teaching and mentorship, Rabbi Friedner shares practical insights how to connect with Hashem...
Translators: Jessica Cohen and Sondra Silverstone From one of the most acclaimed masters of the short story form whom the New York Times calls “Genius,” a darkly funny collection of stories explores themes of...
The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
