Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas by Patrick Modiano
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In this trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of...
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Kuzmino Chronicles: Memoirs of teenage Holocaust Survival by Nathan C. Moskowitz
The book at Amazon Leib and Gittel Moskowitz were both born and raised in Kuzmino, a small town in Transcarpathia, in what was then Czechoslovakia. As children they hardly knew each other. In May...
Creation, Covenant, and the Beginnings of Judaism by Ari Mermelstein
Reconceiving Historical Time in the Second Temple Period The book at Amazon This study examines the relationship between time and history in Second Temple literature. Numerous sources from that period express a belief that...
The Gender Challenge of Hebrew by Malka Muchnik
The book at Amazon The Gender Challenge of Hebrew is the first book to delve in depth into the problem of gender representation over the 3,000-year history of the Hebrew language. By analyzing and...
Death by Pastrami by Leonard S. Bernstein
The book at Amazon and on Kindle In these seventeen wry stories, Bernstein introduces us to the unsung residents of NYCs garment district — proud lace sewers, unscrupulous ragmen, and salesmen with a penchant...
Great Jewish Books (Summer program)
A week-long exploration of literature & culture for high school students This year’s program will run from August 2-9, 2015. Applications are due April 1st. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcflSEQbh8o The Great Jewish Books Summer Program brings together...
Saxa judaica loquuntur, Lessons from Early Jewish Inscriptions by Pieter W. van der Horst
Radboud Prestige Lectures 2014 The book at Amazon In Saxa judaica loquuntur (‘Jewish stones speak out’), Pieter W. van der Horst informs the reader about the recent boom in the study of ancient Jewish...
November 2014 Jewish Book Carnival
The November Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Erika Dreifus at Fig Tree Books at http://figtreebooks.net/jewish-book-carnival/. You’ll find links to Jewish book...
Masorah and Text Criticism in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Jordan S. Penkower
Moshe Ibn Zabara and Menahem de Lonzano This book discusses Zabara and Lonzano who both worked on a particular Bible manuscript, MS Zurich, Jeselsohn 5, which is the first half of a complete Masoretic...
The Cave 4 Apocryphon of Jeremiah and the Qumran Jeremianic Traditions by Kipp Davis
Prophetic Persona and the Construction of Community Identity The book at Amazon The Cave 4 Apocryphon of Jeremiah C from Qumran survives in several copies, and presents significant links between the prophet Jeremiah, the...
