New Jewish Books
HBI Series on Jewish Women Foreword: Tamar Kadari A unique compilation of contemporary women’s midrashim. Dirshuni: Contemporary Women’s Midrash, is the first-ever English edition of a historic collection of midrashim composed by Israeli women,...
Engendering Tractate Yoma HBI Series on Jewish Women A feminist project that privileges the Babylonian Talmudic tractate as culturally significant. While the use of feminist analysis as a methodological lens is not new to...
What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud A literary critic’s journey through the Talmud. Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi—a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around...
How Jews Made the Art World Modern The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become...
The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures Foreword: Yosef Kaplan In Blood and Boundaries, Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal’s policies of exclusion and discrimination based on...
Editors: Ariel Evan Mayse, Sam Berrin Shonkoff Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In Hasidism: Writings on Devotion,...
Brandeis University is the United States’ only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it has risen to become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The...
Translator: Gregory L. Freeze Zinaida Poliakova (1863–1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business...
Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632–77), the seventeenth-century philosopher, pioneering biblical critic, and Jewish heretic from Amsterdam. Revered in many...
What is the role of Judaism and Jewish existence in America? And what role does America play in matters Jewish? This anthology considers these questions and offers a look at how the diverse body...
