New Jewish Books
How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question―and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everything Though typically translated as “Jewish law,” the term halakhah is not...
The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved...
The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This...
