New Jewish Books
Jews and Judaism: History and Culture A groundbreaking exploration of the Jewish marriage contract and its evolution in English translation Translating the Ketubah offers a fresh perspective on the ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract....
War, Memory, and Culture A sweeping exploration of survival, resilience, and the fate of one family amid Europe’s most turbulent century Echoes of Exile reveals the seismic disruptions of twentieth-century European history through the...
Jews and Judaism: History and Culture An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth...
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Orthodox Judaism is one of the fastest-growing religious communities in contemporary American life. Anyone...
Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics Zionism and the Melting Pot pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theological, political,...
Today, April 21 is Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah, aka Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. I commemorate it with posting Shoah related books. Ruth Herskovits Gutmann’s powerful memoir recounts her life not only as...
