New Jewish Books
Translators: Oona Smyth and Claudia Patane Foreword: David I. Kertzer In this gripping revisionist history of Italy’s role in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents an unforgettable account of how ordinary Italians actively participated...
An authority on the twentieth-century philosopher Martin Buber (1878–1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Organized around several key moments—such as his...
Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal, but Matt won’t give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp—and he needs to be as sharp...
A wide-ranging discussion of mysticism in the great monotheistic world religions, this text features scholars who are internationally renowned. The notion of mystical union with God, of being one with the divine, has seemed...
What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she...
Many Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel’s founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born...
Bringing to light a hidden chapter in the history of modern Judaism, Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah explores the shamanic dimensions of Jewish mysticism. Jonathan Garb integrates methods and models from the social sciences, comparative religion,...
Here is the list of the 63 books that I posted on this site in February 2019. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page...
David, an Israeli vigilante, is forced to flee to Cairo, leaving behind him a trail of blood. Limor, an Ex-Mossad operative with plenty of chutzpah, will stop at nothing to bring down the most...
This book explores the cultural and religious politics of the contemporary food movement, starting from the example of Jewish foodies, their zeal for pig (forbidden by Jewish law), and their talk about why ignoring...
