New Jewish Books
The Association of Jewish Libraries kicks off its first reading challenge with #Readukkah during Hanukkah, December 6-14, 2015. It’s easy! Anyone can participate, including kids. All you have to do is: Read one Jewish...
From Bible stories to Hasidic folktales to contemporary media, the discourse on infertility is becoming an increasingly widespread topic for open discussion. However, it largely remains within the context of womanhood. In THE PATER,...
In this concise and elegant biography, Benjamin Taylor ably illustrates how Proust absorbed the life around him and transformed it into immortal art. The son of a prominent Catholic doctor and the cultured daughter...
Fourteen Jewish men and women stepped beyond their family religion to become leaders of other spiritual paths. They became a Sikh, Sufi, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu chant master, visionary artist, Advaita teacher, Pagan witch, interfaith...
Here is the list of books that made it here during the month of October 2015: 94 Maidens by Rhonda Fink-Whitman Akiva: Life, Legend, Legacy by Reuven Hammer Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story by Nancy...
From Tablet Magazine In this view from Ferguson’s planet Kissinger’s Harvard critics were not only pinkly fatuous moralists but dishonest, carping, bitter men trying to whitewash their own dirty records. Some of them were,...
Heidi Neumark’s life changed when a few computer keystrokes exposed a generation of family secrets. Late one night while her family slept, Neumark discovered her hidden Jewish heritage and uncovered hundreds of questions: Did...
Excerpt For a number of years a fond, beautiful dream had been weaving in my thoughts. In a hidden crevice of the soul a seed had taken root and was quietly, modestly burgeoning. Amid...
The studies comprising this volume, most of them appearing for the first time in English, deal with some of the main topics in Maimonides’ philosophy and that of his followers in Provence. At the...
Reading My Father’s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things felt like opening a box of old photographs—the ones that are awkward and embarrassing and perfect in their own, warped way. Unlike most memoirs, My Father’s...
