New Jewish Books
General readers are likely to find this scholarly work challenging, but those who persevere will be rewarded with greater insight into the sources and ideas of one of the most important voices for peace...
Translator: Roslyn Weiss This book is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas’s Light of the Lord, widely acknowledged as a seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy and second in importance only to...
Shelley Frisch, translator An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving debut memoir that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman’s family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a...
In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse “A river flows from Eden to water the garden” (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows...
Vienna, 1911. Greta Goldbaum has always dreamed of being free to choose her own life’s path, but the Goldbaum family, one of the wealthiest in the world, has different expectations. United across Europe, Goldbaum...
Afterword by Rabbi Zvi Dershowitz In 1939, Hitler’s tyranny approaches western Poland. A prosperous Jewish family–Julius and Josefina Kohn and their two teenaged children, Peter and Suzanna–flee their homeland, embarking on an unexpected odyssey...
Viviana Garofoli, illustator A family and their adorable dog celebrate the kid-friendly holiday of Tu B’Shevat, the birthday of trees!
Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives provides a philosophical and psychological interpretation of the major symbols of the theosophical Kabbalah. It shows that the Kabbalah, particularly as it is expressed in the...
Aspiring choreographer Sophie Orenstein would do anything for Peter Rosenthal-Porter, who’s been on the kidney transplant list as long as she’s known him. Peter, a gifted pianist, is everything to Sophie: best friend, musical...
Magdala of Galilee for the first time unifies the results of various excavations of the Galilean city. Here, archaeologists and historians of the Second Temple Period work together to understand the site and its...
