New Jewish Books
The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness...
Editor: David Stromberg Old Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays―most of them previously unpublished in English―by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific...
The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soil Settled in the mid-1970s...
Translator: Jeremiah Riemer From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler’s quest for power In the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War I and the...
The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survival Meir Kahane came of age...
How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the Torah Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria...
The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survival Meir Kahane came of age...
In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and...
The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalism For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeavors in the United States,...
On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick’s, shot him dead on...
