New Jewish Books
Fiction. Jewish Studies. Women’s Studies. WILD MILK is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it’s like Donald Barthelme meets Pony Head; it’s like the Brothers Grimm meet Beckett in his swim trunks at the...
Tracing the Origins of Legal Obligation from Ezra to Qumran In The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, Vroom identifies a development in the authority of written law that took...
Paul Goldberg, the acclaimed author of The Yid, takes us behind the scenes of a Florida condo board election, delivering a wild spin on Miami Beach, petty crime, Jewish identity, and life in Trump’s...
Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? If mystical experience embraces a form of non-dual consciousness, then in such a state of mind, the regulative dichotomy so basic to ethical...
The third novel in the epic Colossus series! Set during the Roman siege of Jerusalem, the story culminates in the savage fire and sack that is lamented to this day. Inside the walls, brothers...
Below is the list of the 68 books that I posted on this site in October 2018. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page...
All we knew was silence. My maternal grandparents never spoke of their wartime experiences. We built myths around them: he was a teacher in the camps, keeping the children busy until it was their...
In Moses among the Idols: Mediators of the Divine in the Ancient Near East, Balogh simultaneously redefines one of the greatest figures in the history of religion and challenges the historically popular understanding of...
A fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning neighbors, friends, and even family members against one another—as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during...
Hoffman’s classic work on Kabbalah and psychology was a great contribution to learning and creative thought when it was first released and it still has a significant impact on both these disciplines. Hoffman gleans...
