New Jewish Books
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...
Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life Jewish Identities in the American West fills a significant gap in racial identity scholarship. Since the onset of New Western History in the 1980s, the...
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...
Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education A perfect guide to those wishing to understand the contemporary Jewish day school. This book takes readers inside Jewish day schools to observe what happens day to day, as...
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...
