New Jewish Books
Narrative Conventions in Genesis 47.28-50.26 In The Death of Jacob: Narrative Conventions in Genesis 47.28-50.26 Kerry Lee investigates the deathbed story of the patriarch Jacob and uncovers the presence of a variety of conventional...
This book tells the story of how a dying synagogue congregation on Boston’s Beacon Hill (the Vilner Congregation, which built and operated the Vilner (Vilna) Shul on Phillips Street) filed what it thought would...
In 2002, after retiring from academia, I returned to the ghettos, killing fields and death camps of Eastern Europe. Throughout the trip my fears reemerged and I felt traumatized again. My memories became more...
Using the covers of books I mentioned on this site in November 2015 I crated a new image for our social media channels. (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) :
Young Bijan helps a wise old traveler… and rediscovers the lost game of chess. Ultimately, King Cyrus is so impressed that he rewards Bijan with any single request. Watch his request take on a...
Here is the list of books that made it here during the month of November 2015: The 613 by Archie Rand Abraham: The World’s First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer by Alan Dershowitz Angels...
This unique project is part graphic novel and part historical education. The first part of this book shares Aron’s (my grandfather) experience, living in Odessa, Ukraine (part of the former USSR) and his survival...
Plus One is a funny novel about an interfaith family set in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman–Zicklin is a midlevel marketing executive raised in the hippie mountain hamlet of Ojai, whose wife Figgy’s fourteenth...
The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and...
Hanukiah, Dreidel, Latkes, Judah Maccabee, Menorah, Candles, Miracle, Cruse of Oil, Chanukah Songs David Levin (Illustrator) Join Dave in another fun book for children, this time they learn about Hanukkah and the story behind...
