New Jewish Books
Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy Editor: Brian HorowitzTranslator: Hugh McLeanPreface: William Craft Brumfield Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda’s brilliant...
Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah Translator: Batya Stein The connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one expression of...
The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage Foreword: Paul Freedman A fascinating study that will appeal to both culinarians and readers interested in the intersecting histories of food, Sephardic Jewish culture,...
The Biography of Marcel Goldman, a Kracovian in Tel Aviv Translated by Katarzyna Rogalska-Chodecka This book tells the story of Holocaust survivor and prominent banker Marcel Goldman, born in Krakow in 1926. Goldman started...
The Jewish Prayer Book. Philosophy, Poetry, and Mystery Translated from the Hebrew by Gershon Greenberg Hebrew University Professor and Israel Prize recipient Emeritus Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022), widely recognized a one of the greatest historians...
Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies....
Translated from the Hebrew by Nancy Rosenfeld In this volume, Bible Studies scholar Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg offers an educational, values-based approach to the cycle of Jewish holidays―festivals and holy days―as found in the Jewish...
Foreword: Jonathan D. Sarna North American Jewish Studies Over a career spanning forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively about the role of American Jews in public life, from the nation’s founding, to...
A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, “is an invitation to reflect on the last century of teaching and learning at Hebrew College, to ask ourselves what has changed and what...
Essays on American Jewish History Studies in Orthodox Judaism This book is a collection of two dozen essays published over the past four decades on American Jewish history and culture. They discuss the role...
