New Jewish Books
Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature Sacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination provides fresh and insightful interpretations of Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the “sacred” from the...
Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis examines the ways in which the work of Israeli political...
Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature This volume of eight essays written by French scholars analyzes Daniel Mendelsohn’s first three volumes of nonfiction (The Elusive Embrace, 1999; The Lost, 2006; and An Odyssey, 2017) and...
Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature Foreword: Omer Bartov The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust shares a complex tapestry of voices of memories previously underrepresented, ignored and denied. An alternative perspective...
May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). In “Those Who Didn’t Survive,” Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland with...
The Animal in the Synagogue explores Franz Kafka’s sense of being a Jew in the modern world and its literary and linguistic ramifications. It falls into two parts. The first is organized around the...
