New Jewish Books
Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on...
Moms who impersonate their daughters on JDate. Moms who try to set their daughters up with celebrities. Moms who can’t stop taking selfies with their dogs. Moms who make their daughters’ beds while their...
After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How...
What is real and what is an illusion? Can you trust your memory to provide an accurate record of what has happened in your life? The Confabulist weaves together the rise and fall of world-famous...
But these days, Ruebner is enjoying a new buzz in Israel. In the past decade, the accolades have been stacking up—the Anne Frank Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, the Israel Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature...
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014 | 7pmBOOK EVENT Cecile Kuznitz, Bard College; Samuel Kassow, Trinity College; Simon Rabinovitch, Boston University; Steven Zipperstein, Moderator, Stanford University and Kronhill Scholar at YIVO Special Member Reception at 5:30pm....
In January 1916, a New York Times headline proclaimed: “Rivington St. Sees War: Rival Restaurant Men Cut Prices on the Succulent Knish.” The article chronicled a time when the Lower East Side was saturated...
Rivka Galchen Is Not Your MommyThe thirtysomething characters in ‘American Innovations,’ her vital, intelligent, new collection of stories, have trouble growing up Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen’s first book, was one of the most celebrated novelistic debuts of the...
Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from...
Jurek Becker was one of the giants of postwar German literature. The novel for which he is best-known, Jacob the Liar, won wide acclaim, was awarded the Heinrich-Mann and Charles Veillon Prizes, and was made...
