Philip Roth: A Counterlife by Ira Nadel
This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer. Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography...
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Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph by David Schneer
In January 1942, Soviet press photographers came upon a scene like none they had ever documented. That day, they took pictures of the first liberation of a German mass atrocity, where an estimated 7,000...
Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989 by Tina Frühauf
By the end of the Second World War, Germany was in ruins and its Jewish population so gravely diminished that a rich cultural life seemed unthinkable. And yet, as surviving Jews returned from hiding,...
Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project by Assaf Shelleg
Theological Stains offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel from the mid-twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first. In a bold and deeply researched account, author Assaf Shelleg...
Hasidism: Key Questions by Marcin Wodzinski
Hasidism is one of the most important religious and social movements to have developed in Eastern Europe, and the most significant phenomenon in the religious, social and cultural life of the Jewish population in...
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag by Julius Margolin
Translator: Stefan Hoffman Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, disease, and exhaustion, and some were killed by criminals...
The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity by Theodore J. Lewis
Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that deity of the world’s three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, who has been worshiped over millennia. In the Hebrew...
The Finger of the Scribe: How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible by William M. Schniedewind
One of the enduring problems in biblical studies is how the Bible came to be written. Clearly, scribes were involved. But our knowledge of scribal training in ancient Israel is limited. William Schniedewind explores...
Reading the Zohar: The Sacred Text of the Kabbalah: A Sacred Text of Kabbalah by Pinchas Giller
Comprising well over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands of Jewish mysticism, or kabbalah, up to the thirteenth...
Between Heimat and Hatred: Jews and the Right in Germany, 1871-1935 by Philipp Nielsen
In the decades between German unification and the demise of the Weimar Republic, German Jewry negotiated their collective and individual identity under the impression of legal emancipation, continued antisemitism, the emergence of Zionism and...
