New Jewish Books
Thematic Coherence and the Diachronic-Synchronic Relationship in the Minor Prophets In The Non-Israelite Nations in the Book of the Twelve Daniel Timmer offers the first comprehensive survey of the ‘nations’ in the Minor Prophets....
Editors: Donald W. Parry and Andrew C. Skinner In Consultation with Emanuel Tov and Eugene Ulrich Quality control: Ariel Tov The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library presents a complete Hebrew transcription and English translation...
The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myriad as the traditions themselves. Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers...
The May Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod at Write Kids Books, at http://blog.writekidsbooks.org/2015/05/carnival-of-jewish-books-may-2015-iyyar.html. You’ll find links to Jewish...
Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s second novel follows Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother that he’ll marry within the tribe. But when Zach falls for Cleo, an African...
The 1948 war was a watershed in the long history of Ramle, when most of the town’s original Arab inhabitants were displaced, their material and symbolic assets appropriated by the nascent Israeli state. Those...
Heidi A Campbell Editor In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community...
The invention of the printing press created a revolution for Jews everywhere. Who could imagine at that time the extraordinary benefits that printing would bring to world Jewry? “People of the Book” vividly describes...
When 16-year-old Raina Resnick is expelled from her Manhattan private school, she’s sent to live with her strict aunt — but Raina feels like she’s persona non grata no matter where she goes. Her...
A Bittersweet Love Song to Jewish Alexandria Lost Egypt comes alive in Yitzhak Gormezano Goren’s 1978 Hebrew idyll ‘Alexandrian Summer,’ in a first English translation Alexandrian Summer is a nostalgic, farewell portrait of a...
