New Jewish Books
An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York’s oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning New York City’s Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent...
What is the purpose of Jews in the world? The Bible singles out the Jews as God’s “chosen people,” but the significance of this special status has been understood in many different ways over...
Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved...
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries The...
Library of Jewish Ideas The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism―but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as...
Editors: Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Abraham Socher Translator: Paul Reitter Afterword: Gideon Freudenthal The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon’s influential and delightfully entertaining memoir Solomon Maimon’s autobiography has delighted readers for more...
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus Al-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth...
The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern...
An essential biography of one of the Bible’s most powerful and inspiring books Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first in lasting cultural importance. It is here...
Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in...
