New Jewish Books
Today, many Jewish Americans are embracing a dual religious identity, practicing Buddhism while also staying connected to their Jewish roots. This book tells the story of Judaism’s encounter with Buddhism in the United States,...
Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany’s....
Editors: John J. Collins and Ananda Geyser-Fouché This volume contains 17 essays on the subjects of text, canon, and scribal practice. The volume is introduced by an overview of the Qumran evidence for text...
For twelve-year-old Rosetta Wolfson, the war in Europe seems very far off from her home in Canada. Then Mr. Schwartzberg comes to tea and asks Rosetta’s parents if they will take in a young...
Irving Berlin (1888–1989) has been called—by George Gershwin, among others—the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. “Berlin has no place in American music,” legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; “he...
In his much-anticipated second poetry collection, David Ebenbach addresses the full scope of the human condition–past, present, and future. Exploring the vast sweep of history, from our ancient evolutionary origins to our future archaeological...
The Animal in the Synagogue explores Franz Kafka’s sense of being a Jew in the modern world and its literary and linguistic ramifications. It falls into two parts. The first is organized around the...
Illustrator: Alex Peris Translators: Ilan Stavans, Eliezer Nowodworski, Frieda Press-Danieli, Randa Sayegh Daniel and Ismail, one Jewish and the other Palestinian, don’t know each other yet, but they have more in common than they...
In 1978, Jakub Slucki passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of seventy-seven. A Holocaust survivor whose first wife and two sons had been murdered at the Nazi death camp in Chelmno,...
Most Jews and Christians are unaware that an extraordinary sea-change is taking place in Jewish-Christian relations.Conflict and Connection: The Jewish-Christian-Israel Triangle poses a crucial question: does this sea-change point to a fundamental and historic...
