New Jewish Books
How is it that the prolific nineteenth-century sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel is largely forgotten today? Ezekiel was the first renowned Jewish American artist and one of the most popular artist-celebrities of his day. In...
Mizrahi-Arab-Ashkenazi Relations Since the Dawn of Zionism Translator: Haim Watzman Originally published in Hebrew in 2021, Hillel Cohen’s Enemies, a Love Story argues that to understand the ongoing conflict in Palestine/Israel we need to examine the...
This volume examines the cultural legacy of Jewish emigration from the Maghreb and the Middle East in the years following 1948. Drawing on the remarkable cinematic and literary output of the last twenty years,...
The Maintenance of Jewish Gender Norms Online Since its inception, the internet has been theorized as a democratic force, a public sphere in which hierarchies are flattened. But the internet is not a neutral...
Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police...
Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent throughout history. It is only when we...
A Photographic Chronicle Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination This book reveals one of the most beautiful and complicated untold stories of our time. Westerners often imagine Jews in Iran as a captive and...
“Ask the beast and it will teach thee, and the birds of heaven and they will tell thee.” ―Job 12:7 In the Middle Ages, the bestiary achieved a popularity second only to that of...
This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects...
Translator: Marion Leathers Kuntz Jean Bodin (1530–1596), renowned for his powerful intellect and breadth of knowledge, was truly a renaissance man. His works on political and legal thought set him apart as one of...
