Agnon: The Parable and Its Lesson
The Parable and Its Lesson: A NovellaS. Y. Agnon; James S. Diamond, trans.Stanford University Press, 2014. 176 pp. $19.95 S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew...
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Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah MirskyYale University Press, 2014. 288 pp. $25.00 Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the...
Philip Schultz: The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse
This novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother’s diaries....
How to Woo a Jew: The Modern Jewish Guide to Dating and Mating
In How to Woo a Jew, your very own Jewish Carrie Bradshaw takes you through each facet of the dating world—from traditional Jewish matchmaking and mixers to modern online dating portals, from honing your...
