New Jewish Books
In “The Second Jewish Revolt: The Bar Kokhba War, 132-136 C.E.,” Menahem Mor offers a detailed account on the Bar Kokhba Revolt in an attempt to understand the second revolt against the Romans. Since...
The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in...
A Selection of Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Introduced, Transcribed, Translated, and Annotated, with Images. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series Volume 7. Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah, which sets a new tone for...
Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas seeks to explore the sphere of Jews and Jewishness in the popular music arena in the Americas. It offers a wide-ranging review of new...
The School as the Shrine of the Jewish Enlightenment by Mordechai Zalkin In Modernizing Jewish Education in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe Mordechai Zalkin offers a new path through which the Eastern European traditional Jewish...
The study explores the eschatological reinterpretation of the Yom Kippur ritual found in the Apocalypse of Abraham where the protagonist of the story, the patriarch Abraham, takes on the role of a celestial goat...
by Adam Zertal, Nivi Mirkam, Shay Bar The volume presents the results of a detailed survey of north-western Samaria in Israel/Palestine. It is the third volume of the Manasseh Hill Country Survey publications. This...
Narrative Conventions in Genesis 47.28-50.26 In The Death of Jacob: Narrative Conventions in Genesis 47.28-50.26 Kerry Lee investigates the deathbed story of the patriarch Jacob and uncovers the presence of a variety of conventional...
The Role of the Deuteronomist in Historical-Critical Research into Genesis-Numbers In The Deuteronomist’s History, Hans Ausloos provides for the first time a detailed status quaestionis concerning the relationship between the books Genesis–Numbers and the...
Essays in Honour of Martin G. Abegg on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday Edited by Kipp Davis, Kyung S. Baek, Peter W. Flint, and Dorothy M. Peters This volume is a collection of...
