An Excerpt From ‘Mount Terminus’
In David Grand’s atmospheric new novel, ‘Mount Terminus’, set in pre-Hollywood Los Angeles, a man can’t outrun his dark New York past. The Rosenblooms were conceived somewhere on the other side of the world. In...
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The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol
At night, Talia and her sisters liked to sneak onto the kibbutz adjacent to their land and hang out in the date palms, climbing and balancing themselves while trying to steer clear of the...
The Jewish Eye
The Jewish Eye publishes reviews of Jewish books, audio tapes, and software, both religious and secular. We are also building a resource lists on a variety of topics including the Holocaust, Jewish Holidays, Hebrew...
John Judis’ review of Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict
John Judis’ Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict has recently raised a controversy, or at least a kerfuffle (he was invited, disinvited, then re-invited to speak at the Museum...
Children’s Illustrated Holocaust Books @ Pinterest
Children’s picture books and illustrated middle grade fiction and nonfiction about the Holocaust
The Visual Culture of Chabad
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...
A Jewish Ceremony for Newborn Girls: The Torah’s Covenant Affirmed
Formulates a framework for the development of Jewish rituals for newborn girls This engaging book offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, philosophy, and social trends that underpin modern welcoming ceremonies for newborn...
Shira by S.Y. Agnon
Shira is Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon’s final, epic novel. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1970, the Hebrew original was published a year later. With this newly revised English translation by Zeva...
Reb Zalman Gathers Figs
Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day In the present book, Dana Densmore brings to light an unpublished and nearly...
Shlepping the Exile by Michael Wex
Svelte and supple as unleavened bread, Shlepping the Exile rends the shmaltz from Jewish fiction and replaces it with a pound of real flesh. It’s the story of Yoine Levkes, a hassidic boy of the Canadian...
