New Jewish Books
Formulates a framework for the development of Jewish rituals for newborn girls This engaging book offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, philosophy, and social trends that underpin modern welcoming ceremonies for newborn...
Shira is Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon’s final, epic novel. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1970, the Hebrew original was published a year later. With this newly revised English translation by Zeva...
The 49th Annual Association of Jewish Libraries conference will take place June 22-25, 2014 at the Westin Las Vegas Hotel, Casino & Spa in Las Vegas, NV, The odds are 100% that you won’t...
Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day In the present book, Dana Densmore brings to light an unpublished and nearly...
Svelte and supple as unleavened bread, Shlepping the Exile rends the shmaltz from Jewish fiction and replaces it with a pound of real flesh. It’s the story of Yoine Levkes, a hassidic boy of the Canadian...
The Jewish Comix Anthology: Volume 1 will contain the works of 47 creators. It will be 8” x 10”, approximately 252 pages, a beautiful mix of black & white with color comic book/graphic novel...
It’s been almost a year since Jewish Book Council has hosted a Jewish Book Carnival, and we’re happy to take the reins this month! We’re huge fans of this series, which has been produced...
David Malkiel, Bar-Ilan University From Renaissance to Risorgimento, the Hebrew tombstones of Padua express the cultural currents of their age, in text and art. The inscriptions are mainly rhymed and metered poems, about life, love...
Sennacherib at the Gates of JerusalemStory, History and HistoriographyEdited by Isaac Kalimi, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Seth Richardson, University of Chicago Sennacherib and his ill-fated siege of Jerusalem fascinated the ancient world. Twelve scholars—in...
Add to your bookshelf’s “Undead” section The Color of Light, Helen Maryles Shankman’s debut novel. This vampire tale is set in an art school that closely resembles the New York Academy of Art, which...
