New Jewish Books
The book of Job has often been called the greatest poem ever written. The book, in Edward Greenstein’s characterization, is “a Wunderkind, a genius emerging out of the confluence of two literary streams” which...
One of the enduring problems in biblical studies is how the Bible came to be written. Clearly, scribes were involved. But our knowledge of scribal training in ancient Israel is limited. William Schniedewind explores...
Translator: Lisa C. Hayden Foreword: Lara Vapnyar Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II―and it’s a novel about the petty dramas and...
”We, the undersigned, promise…” ”Chaim’ke, remember that you are a Yid! Don’t forget, Chaim’ke!” A group of cheder-boys-turned-soldiers seal a pact. Can they stay true to their word, despite the impossible circumstances? Chaim’ke and...
This book is the autobiography of the author, a Turkish Jew born in Izmir in 1923. Ben Shlomo narrates with vivid details his parents and his life in Izmir. How he decided to emigrate...
In R. J. Palacio’s bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère’s heartrending...
R’ Moshe Pruzansky has combed through early and contemporary commenters and sources in order to offer you the best divrei Torah for the Shabbos table. Each comprehensive dvar Torah has been carefully designed to...
Is psychoanalysis a “Jewish science”? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth century Europe, Freud’s Jewishness and the...
Illustrator: Tiphanie Beeke Kukurikuuu! squawks the rooster. Meowwwww! yowls the cat. ZZZZZZzzzzzzz buzzes the mosquito… It is the end of a hot, dry summer, and Mrs. Strauss just can’t fall asleep. “SHEKET! QUIET!” But...
You are invited to enter the new-old pathway of Neo-Hasidism—a movement that uplifts key elements of Hasidism’s Jewish revival of two centuries ago to reexamine the meaning of existence, see everything anew, and bring...
