Escape Velocity, A Post-Apocalyptic Passover Haggadah
Escape Velocity works under a very simple assumption: The Haggadah is the one source Jews use, on the one night they have, to express, and be impressed, by their faith. Escape Velocity sees to...
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Moroccan Sephardic Romancero Wins European Prize for Folklore
Susana Weich-Shahak, has just won the European Prize for Folklore for her work on the Moroccan Sephardic Romancero, published 2013. This is an anthology of Judeo-Spanish ballads from the Spanish romancero tradition that have...
Get the Inside Scoop on the Best Contemporary Jewish Literature
The first The Whole Megillah Seminar on Jewish Story, together with the Association of Jewish Libraries, is planned for Sunday, May 18, 2014 at Temple Emanu-El in New York City. The full-day event features several panels: Keynotes:...
Opening up the Hebrew manuscript collection
Acknowledged as one of the finest and most important in the world, the British Library’s Hebrew manuscripts collection is a vivid testimony to the creativity and intense scribal activities of Eastern and Western Jewish...
What Ever Happened to Italy’s Jews?
We usually think of historical fiction as storytelling that attempts to simulate the events and atmosphere of the past—but what if historical fiction recreated not the past itself, but the historian’s process of trying...
The Best Little Jewish Publishing House in London
Peter and Martine Halban run England’s most cosmopolitan and finely curated Jewish and Middle Eastern-themed literary press …One of the surprising things about Motherland is that it was an unsurprising choice for its publisher,...
Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul by Daniel Gordis
Menachem Begin—maker of peace with Egypt, Nobel Prize winner, welcomer of the Ethiopian Jews to Israel—was shunned by David Ben-Gurion and renounced as a terrorist. In this sympathetic biography, Daniel Gordis, a prominent American-Israeli...
Essential Figures in Jewish Scholarship by Ronald L. Eisenberg
Despite the fact that scholars of the post-Talmudic era have been of great importance to the continued interpretation of religious texts for more than a millennium, they are typically not given as much attention...
Book Sale: Antonio’s Devils by Jeremy Asher Dauber
This books is on Sale in March: $10 for the hardcover instead of the usual $72.50 Antonio’s Devils deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature by tracing...
Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman
Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political...
