Adon Olam: A Search for Meaning by Rabbi Zalman Weiss
I know you. I was written nearly 2,500 years ago just for you. I am that prayer you have heard sung in synagogue since your youth. They call me Adon Olam. I was written...
Jewish Book World Blog
Urim publications and Sefaria strike unprecedented agreement
From Sefaria Project blog Sefaria is building a free, living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections. Our scope is Torah in the broadest sense, from Tanakh to Talmud to Zohar to modern texts...
The JPS Bible Commentary: Song of Songs
Commentary by Michael Fishbane Song of Songs is a wondrous collection of love lyrics nestled in the heart of the Hebrew Bible—songs of passion and praise between a young maiden and her beloved. It...
Lies, First Person by Gail Hareven
From the Examiner: Lies, First Person, Gail Hareven’s second novel to be translated into English (the eleventh of her thirteen adult books published in Hebrew), which is published today by Open Letter Books, is...
Salami Jew by Matthew Lippman
Matthew Lippman’s latest collection of poems, SALAMI JEW, is an extended rumination on one man’s relationship with Judaism. In these poems Lippman grapples with and explores the power of being a Jew under the...
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
With his memoir Little Failure, acclaimed novelist Gary Shteyngart brings the reader through his asthmatic childhood in St. Petersburg, Russia and across the ocean as his family immigrates to the United States. We watch...
Sex vs. Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein by John Launer
Why are we familiar with the writings of Freud, Jung, and Piaget, but not those of Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942), who worked closely with each of them in the formative years of their careers? Spielrein’s...
Two Prayers Before Bedtime by Nadine Wojakovski
“She saw her daughter, smaller and smaller until she faded out of view completely” Amsterdam, September 1942. Every day a fight for survival. Terror has gripped the beautiful city of Amsterdam, following the Nazi...
After Birth by Elisa Albert
A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it “birth” and still she can’t locate herself in her altered universe. Amid the...
The Best Place on Earth: Stories by Ayelet Tsabari
Confident, original and humane, the stories in The Best Place on Earth are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities: expatriates, travellers, immigrants and locals. In the powerfully affecting opening...
