Welcome to the Cavalcade
We are delighted to tell you about ‘Welcome to the Cavalcade: a Festschrift in honour of Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet on the occasion of his 70th birthday’. Academic colleagues, friends and former students of...
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Yiddish-English edition of The Dybbuk, by S. An-sky
Tsiterboym Books announces the publication of the first bilingual Yiddish-English edition of The Dybbuk, by S. An-sky. Translation by Fernando Peñalosa. 202 pp., introduction, notes. Size: 9 x 6 inches. $13.14, available from Amazon.com....
Hand of Miriam (A Bayla and the Golem Novel)
A Victorian world of supernatural creatures, magnificent airships, a secret society, and one bluestocking adventuress who, threatened by evil seeks protection by awakening the golem. On an archaeological expedition, Bayla Gideon, is widowed by...
Philip Schultz: The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse
This novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother’s diaries....
Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
In Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Ari Ariel analyzes the impact of local, regional and international events on ethnic and religious relations in Yemen...
How to Woo a Jew: The Modern Jewish Guide to Dating and Mating
In How to Woo a Jew, your very own Jewish Carrie Bradshaw takes you through each facet of the dating world—from traditional Jewish matchmaking and mixers to modern online dating portals, from honing your...
Why Harold Bloom, Master Critic, Likes Poet Peter Cole a Lot – Tablet Magazine
The great Yale literary scholar introduces new poetry by Peter Cole, in ‘The Invention of Influence’ I first came to know Peter Cole as a matchless translator of Hebrew poetry, particularly of the warrior...
Samson: Hero or Fool?
Samson: Hero or Fool? New Book Samson: Hero or Fool? The Many Faces of Samson Edited by Erik Eynikel, University of Regensburg and Tobias Nicklas, University of Regensburg Samson is a peculiar character. He...
January 2014 Jewish Book Carnival
January 2014 Jewish Book Carnival Welcome to the New (secular) Year and a new batch of Jewish book related blog entries; designed to keep you warm on these long winter nights At the Book...
How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’
How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ Yascha Mounk’s book about growing up Jewish in Germany, “Stranger in My Own Country,” is rickety, not fully assembled, more the frame of...
