New Jewish Books
Editor, Introduction: Rena Potok Contributors: David Bassuk, Carol Rocamora, Aaron Posner While Chaim Potok is most famous for his novels, particularly his first book The Chosen (1967)—which was listed on The New York Times bestseller list for 39...
Every year before the holiday of Sukkot, Jews all around the world purchase an etrog—a lemon-like fruit—to participate in the holiday ritual. In this book, David Z. Moster tracks the etrog from its evolutionary...
Sunday, January 14, 2018 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York City to discuss the important issues of the day, as well as the enduring themes of...
In Ziegler’s presentation, the book of Ruth is a contrast and corrective to the book of Judges. The opening verse sets the events of Ruth in the era of the Judges (Ziegler barely addresses...
On June 2, 2014, the Jewish Review of Books and Yale University Press hosted an evening for our editorial board member Hillel Halkin’s brilliant new biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky at YIVO. In addition to...
Here at the Jewish Review of Books our job is to read books, not make them, but we’ve been looking back at the last 18 issues and looking forward to celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut, and we find,...
John Judis’ Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict has recently raised a controversy, or at least a kerfuffle (he was invited, disinvited, then re-invited to speak at the Museum...
