New Jewish Books
The Disappearance of God details the gradual receding of the divine presence in the Biblical writings—from the unquestioned companion and teacher of the Patriarchs, to the distant but still-present redeemer in Exodus, to the...
A wealthy, prominent German-Jewish family was torn apart, first by suicide, then by Hitler. At sixteen, Siddi, the youngest, was left on her own in Nazi Germany. Through an extraordinary chain of events, she...
The July Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted Deborah Kalb at http://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2015/07/july-2015-jewish-book-carnival.html . You’ll find links to Jewish book news, book reviews and author interviews....
Ruth Morris, translator Feminist theories maintain that gender issues are a ubiquitous component of our lives, intersecting with every aspect of the society in which we live and interact. Because the feminist debate has...
In 1944, Hadassah Benjamin feels abandoned by God when she is saved from a firing squad only to be handed over to a new enemy. Pressed into service by SS Kommandant Colonel Aric von...
The Ladino collection is among the nation’s largest, second to the one housed at Yeshiva University in New York. Among the finds is a rare book of ethics published in Istanbul in the 1740s...
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Through a largely hidden ceremony…four friends discover the true meaning of life. It’s 2006 in a seaside village in Israel, where a war is brewing. Lauren, Emily, Aviva and Rachel, four memorable women from...
A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan by Sara Koplik describes the situation of Jews in that country during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly 1839-1952. It examines the political, economic...
Where Jewish writers are finding homes these days, and why By Adam Kirsch …The real question for the future of publishing—and, more important, of literature—is what happens to the 99 percent of books that...
