Reflections on Herman Wouk
From Tablet Magazine: The first novel I ever read was by Herman Wouk. Now, 60 years later, he’s publishing yet another one. By Morton Landowne When I became a senior citizen a few years...
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Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism by Andrei A. Orlov
Divine Scapegoats is a wide-ranging exploration of the parallels between the heavenly and the demonic in early Jewish apocalyptical accounts. In these materials, antagonists often mirror features of angelic figures, and even those of...
Creating a Collection: a Basic Book List for Judaic Libraries by Marlene Schiffman, Leslie Monchar
Creating a Collection is an invaluable resource for new Judaic libraries. In this revised edition of AJL’s annotated non-fiction collection development guide, our editors have added many recent titles and expanded the list of...
Sweet Burdens: Welfare and Communality Among Russian Jews in Germany by Sveta Roberman
Sweet Burdens presents a detailed ethnographic study of the lives of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany over the past twenty years. Focusing on the first generation of adult immigrants, Sveta Roberman examines how they question...
Books posted in December 2015
Sidenote first: the 1000th post was published on this site sometimes in December. And now here is the list of books that made it here during the month of December 2015: Anne Frank and the...
Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish by Barry Deutsch
Welcome back to Hereville, where Mirka, the world’s first time-traveling, monster-fighting Orthodox Jewish girl, faces her greatest challenge yet: babysitting! Mirka just wants to find new adventures, but instead she’s stuck babysitting her disapproving...
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929 by Hillel Cohen
What inspires someone to wake up one day and kill their neighbor? How do communities internalize and remember periods of intense violence and hatred? How do those memories shape our identities and relationships going...
The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey by Roger Cohen
In his intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history—a memoir of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love—award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate and discerning eye on the legacy of his...
Tiptoe Through Genesis: A Unique Adaptation by Nancy Reuben Greenfield
Enjoy the timeless book of Genesis through this unique adaptation. It’s poetic, powerful, passage-based format allows you to read it every day, in one sitting or whenever the mood strikes. Relevant questions make text...
When We Danced on Water by Evan Fallenberg
From acclaimed author Evan Fallenberg, an exquisitely crafted debut novel tells the story of a preeminent male ballet dancer in theautumn of his career—a Jew whose talent once saved him from the Nazis—whose fading...
