New Jewish Books
For twenty-five years, Rabbi Tovia Halberstam, a scion of leading Chassidic dynasties, told riveting Chassidic tales to an audience of thousands on the Yiddish radio in New York. These legends, as precious and rich...
What is kehuna? The term is often translated as “priesthood,” and the Jewish kohanimare indeed charged with ministering God’s Temple, yet kehuna signifiesmuch more than that. A kohen is a representative of God on...
The Hirsch Chumash – so brilliant in content and expansive in scope – now has a comprehensive index that allows easy access to a specific subject, word, or reference. This 312-page volume has 3...
Orphan Number Eight tells the story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish...
From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910–1991) was a member of an official team documenting the implementation of Nazi policies in the Lodz Ghetto. Covertly, he captured on film scores...
Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body...
The microcosm encased within a glass terrarium on the book cover for The Language of Paradise evokes the poignant contradictions of the story it contains: nurtured wilderness, love and estrangement, caged Arcadia, Art, Science,...
Two agents. Two opposing sides. Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain...
Dalya Bilu, translator The Sound of Our Steps is an inventive novel of immigration and exile from Ronit Matalon, a major voice in contemporary Israeli fiction. In the beginning there was Lucette, who is...
Edited by Annette Levine and Natasha Zaretsky Landscapes of Memory and Impunity chronicles the aftermath of the most significant terrorist attack in Argentina’s history—the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed eighty-five people, wounded hundreds, and...
