New Jewish Books
It’s late 1938. Thomas Heiselberg has built a career in Berlin as a market researcher for an American advertising company. In Leningrad, twenty-two-year-old Sasha Weissberg has grown up eavesdropping on the intellectual conversations in...
The Association of Jewish Libraries’ practical guide for synagogue, school and community center libraries. Topics covered: Starting a New Library; The Budget; The Collection; Cataloging; Classification; Automation; Programming; Promotion and Advocacy; and Accreditation. Also...
From her immigration to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 until her death in 1950 American-born Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon worked as a reporter for The Palestine Post (later The Jerusalem Post), while freelancing for periodicals in...
The founders of the world-famous Gefilteria revitalize beloved old-world foods with ingenious new approaches in their debut cookbook. Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz are on a mission to reclaim and revolutionize Ashkenazi cuisine. Combining...
Volume 11 comprises a collection of different genres within the Zoharic library. The fragmentary Midrash ha-Ne’lam on Song of Songs opens with its treatment of mystical kissing. Highlights of Midrash ha-Ne’lam on Ruth are...
Original Yiddish poems are presented with their English translation on the facing page. Rivka Basman Ben Haim’s poems are witty and wise. Lyrical and personal, their length belies their depth. Rarely more than a...
In Between Life and Death, famed Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk describes the four months during which he lay unconscious in a Tel Aviv hospital, hovering between the world of the living and that of...
Lena Woodward, elegant and poised, has lived a comfortable life among Chicago Society since she immigrated to the US and began a new life at the end of World War II. But now something...
In spending time with his mother in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, Eliezer Sobel recognized something astounding. Although she had seemingly lost all of her language skills several years earlier, he discovered that...
Tishrei, the first month of the Jewish year, is a time for teshuvah and inspiration. From the elevated days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur through the joyous days of Sukkos and Simchas Torah,...
