New Jewish Books
Dana E. Katz examines the Jewish ghetto of Venice as a paradox of urban space. In 1516, the Senate established the ghetto on the periphery of the city and legislated nocturnal curfews to reduce...
Novel: Nora Gold, for Fields of Exile (Dundurn Press). Scholarship: James A. Diamond, for Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon (Cambridge University Press). Biography/Memoir: Alison Pick, for Between Gods: A Memoir (Doubleday...
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 examines one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior of the Polish Underground – the resistance organization loyal to...
This book presents the first full-length study of a vast and complex visual tradition produced, revered, preserved, banned, and destroyed by the Hasidic movement of Chabad. This rich repository of visual artifacts provides the...
