The 37 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in November 2024
Here are the 37 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in November 2024. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site”...
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Arthurs: Home of the Nosh by Raegan Steinberg, Alexandre Cohen, Evelyne Eng
A Big Personality Cookbook of Delicious Jewish Favorites A must-have breakfast, brunch, and lunch cookbook brimming with recipes for Jewish comfort food—co-authored by the husband-and-wife team behind Montreal’s famous Arthurs Nosh Bar. Take a...
Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible by Sara Lippmann, Seth Rogoff
Provocative new readings of biblical texts by major contemporary Jewish writers. Lot’s daughters rebel against their predatory father, Jacob wrestles an angel in a queer underground nightclub, Job arrives in the form of an...
The Salvation of Israel: Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans by Jeremy Cohen
Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity’s eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of...
A Journey of Memory: Honoring Lives Lost Through History
Thoughts on Stumbling Stones by Bonnie Suchman One hallmark of great literature is its lingering impact on readers, and by that measure, Stumbling Stones is nothing short of a triumph. I read it months...
The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits, a deeply moving novel set against the glitz and chaos of early 2000s pop stardom. Equal parts heartfelt family...
I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948–1967 by Gali Drucker Bar-Am
Translator: Natalie Melzer Olamot Series in Humanities and Social Sciences Israel’s cultural space is frequently studied as if it were synonymous with the Hebrew-Israeli one. But within the borders of Israel, a fascinating culture...
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
When Joe Dunthorne began researching his family history, he expected to write the account of their harrowing escape from Nazi Germany in 1935. What he found in his great-grandfather Siegfried’s voluminous, unpublished, partially translated...
Counting the Miracles: Jewish Thought, Mysticism, and the Arts from Late Antiquity to the Present by Silvana Greco and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (editors)
In honor of the writings of Giulio Busi, scholar of Jewish culture, the book investigates from a multidisciplinary perspective the extraordinary richness of Jewish culture in the Diaspora from antiquity to the latter part...
Gursha by Beejhy Barhany with Elisa Ung
Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond A joyous celebration of Ethiopian Jewish cuisine: more than one hundred accessible and healthy recipes, stories, and traditions from the intersection of the...
