New Jewish Books
Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture: Ilana Pardes Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israel’s Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs...
Mounk uses his experiences growing up in Germany to provide a unique insider’s look at the often fraught status of the Jews who live there. Despite employing a memoir-like title, Mounk provides less of...
Dating in Brooklyn While Russian | Stealing Cherries by Marina Rubin Short and sudden, none longer than a page, the tales of Stealing Cherries are funny and embarrassing and sad and honest. In “The Weekend,” she...
A Surprising New History of “Fiddler on the Roof” Maybe you first heard Tevye break into song when you watched Fiddler on the Roof on VHS in your grandparents’ living room. Maybe you sat in the audience on...
They Called Her Rebbe After a solitary girlhood, Chana Rochel argued with her father, rabbis, and yeshiva-bocher fiancée for the right to study the way men do, jettisoning “the noodle board,” in the words...
Outside the Bible, 3-Volume Set – University of Nebraska Press Outside the Bible, 3-Volume Set: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture Edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman The...
Yiddish Theater for the Kindergarten Set | Jewniverse [Betty Rosenberg Perlov‘s] new picture book, Rifka Takes a Bow, tells the story of a little girl who explores the theater with her father, watches the actresses put...
Jewish Review of Books » Winter 2014 The Winter 2014 issue of Jewish Review of Books is online now, including: Riding Leviathan: A New Wave of Israeli Genre Fiction By Michael Weingrad A new batch...
One of the Most Remarkable Books About the Holocaust Was Just Published In Slavko Goldstein’s newly translated ‘1941,’ Nazi-backed fascists tear through the Balkans. Yugoslavia never recovered. “I think I can pinpoint exactly the...
The Rabbi and the Nuns: The Inside Story of a Rabbi’s Therapeutic Work With the Sisters of St. Franci [It] chronicles the highlights of a twenty-year working relationship between Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski...
