New Jewish Books
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...
The great Yale literary scholar introduces new poetry by Peter Cole, in ‘The Invention of Influence’ I first came to know Peter Cole as a matchless translator of Hebrew poetry, particularly of the warrior...
Samson: Hero or Fool? New Book Samson: Hero or Fool? The Many Faces of Samson Edited by Erik Eynikel, University of Regensburg and Tobias Nicklas, University of Regensburg Samson is a peculiar character. He...
January 2014 Jewish Book Carnival Welcome to the New (secular) Year and a new batch of Jewish book related blog entries; designed to keep you warm on these long winter nights At the Book...
How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ Yascha Mounk’s book about growing up Jewish in Germany, “Stranger in My Own Country,” is rickety, not fully assembled, more the frame of...
New Book: The Angel of Jewish History The relationship between the traditional Jewish past and the present is a key question in Jewish intellectual thought from the Wissenschaft des Judentums in the nineteenth century up to...
The People of the Book vs The People of the Kindle – Tablet Magazine What happens when our libraries are purged from our homes, replacing spines with screens? … What of the appeal of...
Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem | Brill Upcoming book: Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem; Story, History and Historiography Edited by Isaac Kalimi, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Seth Richardson, University of Chicago Sennacherib and his...
The Book of Life: Hannah’s Way An interview with author Linda Glaser and illustrator Adam Gustavson, creators of the picture book Hannah’s Way which won the 2013 Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Younger Readers Category.
