New Jewish Books
Nearly eight centuries, starting from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 until the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492, Muslims, Jews and Christians shared a common Andalusian culture under alternating Muslim and...
Edited by Vincent Brook, Marat Grinberg After an introductory overview by Vincent Brook that is probably the most valuable piece in the volume, the essays are grouped into broadly-conceived sections: comparative anal-ysis of the...
Winegarden recounts episodes in the life of Jacob Winegarden, an agnostic Jewish professor of theoretical physics whose speciality is ‘thought experimentation’. A burly, vague, distracted man, a fan of popular films such as Toy...
With the large-scale immigration of Jews from diaspora communities, the Jewish population of the United States is the largest in the world. You’ve most definitely heard about the Jewish communities in and near major...
Proceedings of a Sixth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira Edited by Eibert Tigchelaar, K.U. Leuven and Pierre Van Hecke K.U. Leuven, with the assistance of Seth...
In 1862, in the only instance of a Jewish expulsion in America, General Ulysses S. Grant banished Jewish citizens from the region under his military command. Although the order was quickly revoked by President...
Over the course of her 81 years (1898-1979), Peggy Guggenheim amassed art and financially sustained artists, despite the turmoil often found in her life. Born into a world of privilege, she suffered the loss...
They are innocent schoolgirls ranging in age from 14 to 22. Under normal circumstances they should be learning, laughing, and playing. Unfortunately, the year is 1942 and the place is Nazi-occupied Poland. Nothing is...
Novel: Nora Gold, for Fields of Exile (Dundurn Press). Scholarship: James A. Diamond, for Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon (Cambridge University Press). Biography/Memoir: Alison Pick, for Between Gods: A Memoir (Doubleday...
1944–1946, Volume 5 With its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative, Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1944–1946, provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the final year of Nazi destruction and...
