New Jewish Books
Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us—or should....
A revision of the excellent Random House Reference Guide. The Reference Guide is divided into three sections: Historical Background, Talmud Study, and Halakha. Although it is the ideal companion volume to the Koren Talmud...
A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found...
The first ever monographic study on the theological encounter of Judaism with Shicism through an explorartion of Judah Halevi’s reliance on basic themes of Shicism in the presentation of Judaism in his classical treatise,...
This book is the first attempt to apply formal pragmatics to Judaic studies as a discipline as well as within the broader discipline of cultural studies, reconstructing the pragmatic approach in Judaism and defining...
The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in...
When it was first published in 1980, Judith Laikin Elkin’s foundational book on the Jewish communities of Latin America quickly became the standard resource on the topic. This new edition, the first in fifteen...
This book is an original, unique recounting of a woman and her family’s trek to Yiddishkeit. The Mountain Family goes from Mrs. Berger’s childhood through grandmotherhood covering many diverse situations, locations and trepidations….This is...
The PURIM STORY is a KID APPROPRIATE retelling of Queen Esther’s and Uncle Mordechai’s success in thwarting wicked Haman’s plot. Sweet rhymes and great pictures make this book fun for kids and adults. 20%...
“But it hardly seemed to bother the players at all,” Larry Needle writes in his children’s historical fiction book, Homecourt: The True Story of the Best Basketball Team You’ve Never Heard Of. “The louder...
