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...
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Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History
In his new book Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History, Rutgers University Jewish Studies Professor Jeffrey Shandler, who has a particular interest in Yiddish culture, examines how the original meaning of shtetl has morphed and...
‘Like Dreamers’ wins RUSA’s Sophie Brody Medal winner for achievement in Jewish literature
The winner of the 2014 Sophie Brody Medal is “Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation” by Yossi Klein Halevi, published by HarperCollins. The Collection Development...
And Every Single One Was Someone
And Every Single One Was Someone by Phil Chernofsky As a math and Jewish studies teacher in a Jewish day school, Chernofsky wanted a different and meaningful way for his students to relate to...
Joshua Max Feldman’s The Book of Jonah
A Young Lawyer, Given a Revelation by God, at Sea About What To Do With It In Joshua Max Feldman’s entertaining debut novel ‘The Book of Jonah,’ Greed is Good meets Sept. 11 …What...
Welcome to the Cavalcade
We are delighted to tell you about ‘Welcome to the Cavalcade: a Festschrift in honour of Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet on the occasion of his 70th birthday’. Academic colleagues, friends and former students of...
Yiddish-English edition of The Dybbuk, by S. An-sky
Tsiterboym Books announces the publication of the first bilingual Yiddish-English edition of The Dybbuk, by S. An-sky. Translation by Fernando Peñalosa. 202 pp., introduction, notes. Size: 9 x 6 inches. $13.14, available from Amazon.com....
Hand of Miriam (A Bayla and the Golem Novel)
A Victorian world of supernatural creatures, magnificent airships, a secret society, and one bluestocking adventuress who, threatened by evil seeks protection by awakening the golem. On an archaeological expedition, Bayla Gideon, is widowed by...
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....
Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
In Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Ari Ariel analyzes the impact of local, regional and international events on ethnic and religious relations in Yemen...
