The Jewish Comix Anthology: Volume 1
The Jewish Comix Anthology: Volume 1 will contain the works of 47 creators. It will be 8” x 10”, approximately 252 pages, a beautiful mix of black & white with color comic book/graphic novel...
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February Jewish Book Carnival
It’s been almost a year since Jewish Book Council has hosted a Jewish Book Carnival, and we’re happy to take the reins this month! We’re huge fans of this series, which has been produced...
Stones Speak – Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862
David Malkiel, Bar-Ilan University From Renaissance to Risorgimento, the Hebrew tombstones of Padua express the cultural currents of their age, in text and art. The inscriptions are mainly rhymed and metered poems, about life, love...
Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem
Sennacherib at the Gates of JerusalemStory, History and HistoriographyEdited by Isaac Kalimi, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Seth Richardson, University of Chicago Sennacherib and his ill-fated siege of Jerusalem fascinated the ancient world. Twelve scholars—in...
A Holocaust Novel with Fangs
Add to your bookshelf’s “Undead” section The Color of Light, Helen Maryles Shankman’s debut novel. This vampire tale is set in an art school that closely resembles the New York Academy of Art, which...
Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma
Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and TraumaFederica K. Clementi; Shulamit Reinharz, fwd.Brandeis University Press, 2013. 392 pp. $40.00 In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted...
Eye to The Infinite by Aharon Rubin
Here is an authentic Jewish meditations workbook, with clear, systematic instructions, exploring these questions and MUCH more, enabling both layman and scholar to derive immediate benefit from a hands-on spiritual manual.In over eighteen chapters...
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
In her latest novel, Alice Hoffman renders the brutal world of Lower East Side immigrants in the romantic hues her readers expect …None of the extraordinary things in The Museum of Extraordinary Things, the new...
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...
The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History
The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History (Brandeis, 2013) mixes lesser-known writings with some of his classic essays. What emerges out of this mix is a clear...
