New Jewish Books
HBI Series on Jewish Women A feminist reading of one of the most troubling tractates of the Talmud. Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud as...
Examines how day schools are educating diverse Jewish youth in a variety of content areas. Teaching and Learning in Jewish Day Schools offers an important analysis of Jewish day school classrooms today. In light...
The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Documents the lives of Greek Jews who returned after surviving persecution, combat, and exile during World War II. Homecoming records the experiences of Greek...
Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law A long overdue study of agunot based on exhaustive research in rabbinic sources, memoirs, and communal records. Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in...
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...
