New Jewish Books
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The J.I. Segal Awards Gala of the Jewish Public Library were given out November 12, 2014. The Gala honoured the winners of awards in various categories for their creative work on Jewish themes and...
