New Jewish Books
Translator: Haim Watzman A magisterial biography of Israel’s first president. In Chaim Weizmann: A Biography, Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani show how Weizmann, a leader of the World Zionist Organization who became the first...
Illustrated highlights from the Judaica Collection of the Library of Congress. Books Like Sapphires showcases a wide range of Hebraic treasures from the storied collection at the Library of Congress, many of them for the first...
Translators: Yaëlle Azagury, Frances Malino The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry A first-ever English translation of a compelling work by a forerunner of modern Sephardi feminist literature. Raised in the...
Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education A teacher reflects on her teaching practice, bringing literacy scholarship into the arena of Jewish education. In The Second Conversation, university professor Ziva R. Hassenfeld returns to the middle...
The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry An original and comprehensive comparison of the universalisms of two major modern Jewish philosophers. Any version of universalism relevant to a more attentive, pluralistic,...
Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust HBI Series on Jewish Women A sympathetic history that focuses on the experiences of women and girls during the Holocaust and draws on new archival sources. Beginning...
Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the...
HBI Series on Jewish Women The first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff. In Sculpting a Life, the first book-length biography of sculptor Chana Orloff (1888-1968), author Paula Birnbaum tells the story of a fiercely...
A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have—no surprise—typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith magazine,...
The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry The first scholarly biography of Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv in English in over thirty-five years. Defender of the Faithful explores the life and thought...
