New Jewish Books
The strangest summer of Elisha Davidson’s life turns into a reality-shattering adventure when Elisha figures out how to access an Ispaklaria’s powerful ancient secrets without ever leaving his own bedroom. Now Elisha is the...
A beautifully illustrated collection of old-world Jewish tales of faith and morality. Jewish Stories of Wisdom is the perfect antidote to our busy, modern lives. It serves as a daily companion that one can...
The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews Some two thousand years ago, a group of Jews settled in Ethiopia and was for millennia cut off from the rest of world Jewry, preserving...
by Murray Jack Lauicht with Peter Weisz On February 1, 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually become the author of this...
Why have the monotheistic religions failed to produce societies that live up to their ethical ideals? A prominent rabbi answers this question by looking at his own faith and offering a way for religion...
Little is spoken of, and hardly remembered, concerning Shem, son of Noah. Yet is from him, in the Academy of Shem and Ever, that “Kabbalah Kadmonim” − Wisdoms of the Ancients, from Adam, Seth,...
Take a ride back in time to the Wild West, where a young Levi Strauss builds his family business into a cornerstone of the multicultural boom town of San Francisco. A Jewpanese love story...
Through personal narrative and letters preserved for decades, Béla’s Letters tells the remarkable story of a large Eastern European family torn apart by war and the Holocaust, the extraordinary circumstances that each family member...
The Fusgeyers were Jews who fled persecution in Romania in the early 1900s to find refuge, ultimately, in the New World. On hundred years later, Culiner retraces their steps on foot in the search...
A Selection of Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Introduced, Transcribed, Translated, and Annotated, with Images. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series Volume 7. Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah, which sets a new tone for...
