New Jewish Books
Foreword: Ismar Schorsch Lost Synagogues of Europe chronicles and recreates in vivid color paintings the life stories of nearly 80 majestic—and destroyed—European synagogues, each one a testament to the approximately 17,000 synagogues decimated during the...
My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry Interweaving memoir with Hebrew poetry, Going Out with Knots illuminates author Wendy I. Zierler’s literary and personal Jewish mourning journey in the aftermath of unremitting personal loss. She begins...
The Artful Modern Revival of the Jewish Marriage Contract Illuminating the contemporary revival of the Jewish marriage contract, Ketubah Renaissance relays the storied history of this beloved document (known in Hebrew as a ketubah)...
Ethics at the Center culls the best of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff’s pioneering thinking in Jewish ethics over nearly five decades. Dorff shows that our response to moral issues depends ultimately on our conceptions...
JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought Modern Jewish Theology is the first comprehensive collection of Jewish theological ideas from the pathbreaking nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, featuring selections from more than thirty of the most...
A People and Their Book Judaism and Its Bible explores the profoundly deep and complex relationship between Jews, Judaism, and the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible has been ubiquitous in Jewish life and thought:...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust....
This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem’s rediscovered novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before...
