New Jewish Books
How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question―and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everything Though typically translated as “Jewish law,” the term halakhah is not...
Book 1 in The Chronicles of Meir ben Yaakov Meir ben Yaakov is sent away from his home in Paris, armed only with a small sack of belongings and his parents’ tearful blessings. His...
“This is a book of husks and sparks, of things lost and then recovered…” So begins Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis in his introduction to this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia devoted to the esoteric in Judaism-the fabulous, the...
Small-scale wars, terrorism, and guerilla warfare, each characterized by low-intensity violence are the new global reality in the twenty-first century. States in general, and liberal democratic states in particular, are compelled to develop a...
Edited by Dean Phillip Bell The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography provides an overview of Jewish history from the biblical to the contemporary period, while simultaneously placing Jewish history into conversation with...
Picking up the mantle of legendary authors such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, an exquisite literary talent makes his debut with a nuanced and provocative tale of materialism, tradition, faith, and the search...
This book describes the history of Jewish mysticism, introducing the wide-ranging and varied mystic writings known collectively as the Heikhalot and the Merkavah literature, with its description of mystic spiritual elevations, and meetings between...
Editors: Sheldon Teitelbaum, Emanuel Lottem; Illustrator: Avi Katz This anthology showcases the best Israeli science fiction and fantasy literature published since the 1980s. The stories included come from Hebrew, Russian, and English-language sources, and...
Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old...
The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved...
