New Jewish Books
A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and culture are independent of one another. In...
It is not giving the story away if you know right off that one of three American sisters living together in Manhattan has a tattoo wrapped around her calf that says, “the sins of...
The Anatomy Lesson tells the imagined story behind Rembrandt’s first large-scale masterpiece, “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.” Set on a single day in 1632, the novel begins as Amsterdam prepares for Justice...
Even a surface reading of Tanach and Talmud tells the reader that there are other literary works to which the writers had access, which are not present in our Bible. Some of these works...
Hannah Nordhaus attempts to uncover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, Julia—whose ghost is said to haunt an elegant hotel in Santa Fe—in this exploration of myth, family history, and the American West. La Posada—“place...
It is 1969, and Johanna Reiss has been convinced by her husband, Jim, to revisit Holland, where she was born, and then to write a memoir of her childhood. It is to be a...
The newest book in Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s award-winning series of commentaries on the hebrew bible, Bewilderments reflects on the book of Numbers. In the book of Numbers, what should have been for the Israelites...
Anonymous Soldiers re-creates the crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling the three decades of growing anticolonial unrest that culminated in the end of British rule and the UN resolution to create two...
This book is composted of fascinating vignettes of the community of Jews encountered by Ruth Behar on her many trips back to her birthplace. The author left Cuba as an exile at the age of five,...
Lev Pearlmutter, an assimilated, cultured German Jew, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his gentile wife Josephine and their children, Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev’s and Josephine’s viewpoints, Part I...
