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Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side
(January 2013)
Narratives Out of Time
Catherine Rottenberg - Editor
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Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.
Harlem and the Lower East Side are two neighborhoods that evoke not only a rich if contested history, but also a particular “racial” narrative. Indeed, these spaces—one downtown and one uptown on Manhattan Island—have ...(Read More) |
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Spiritual Masters of the World's Religions
(December 2012)
Victoria Kennick - Editor
Arvind Sharma - Editor
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Discusses the notion of a spiritual master and looks at examples in a variety of world religions.
What is a spiritual master? Spiritual Masters of the World’s Religions offers an important contribution to religious studies by addressing that question in the context of such themes as charismatic authority, role models, symbolism, and categories of religious perception. The book contains essays by sch...(Read More) |
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From the Shahs to Los Angeles
(November 2012)
Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture
Saba Soomekh - Author
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GOLD MEDALIST - 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion category
A fascinating look at the lives, culture, and religious and ritual observance of three generations of Iranian Jewish women in the United States.
Saba Soomekh offers a fascinating portrait of three generations of women in an ethnically distinctive and little-known American Jewish community, Jew...(Read More) |
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Suckling at My Mother's Breasts
(November 2012)
The Image of a Nursing God in Jewish Mysticism
Ellen Davina Haskell - Author
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A fascinating discussion of the kabbalistic image of a nursing god, its historical context, and its theological implications.
One of Kabbalah’s most distinctive images of the feminine divine is that of a motherly, breastfeeding God. Suckling at My Mother’s Breasts traces this idea from its origins in ancient rabbinic literature through its flourishing in the medieval classic Sefer ha-...(Read More) |
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The Gambler's Daughter
(October 2012)
A Personal and Social History
Annette B. Dunlap - Author
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In exploring her father’s own gambling addiction, the author uncovers a hidden history of gambling in the Jewish community.
Screening calls from her father’s creditors, hiding his mail from her mother—being the child of a compulsive gambler wasn’t easy, and Annette B. Dunlap thought for years that her experience was a singular one. In early adulthood, she was fortunate enough to learn that sh...(Read More) |
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The Masorah to Targum Onqelos
(August 2012)
Michael L. Klein - Author
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A critical edition, with notes and commentary, of the ancient Aramaic translation of the Torah.
The study of the Masorah to Onqelos, when undertaken in constant reference to textually reliable sources of the targum, enables one to appreciate just how scrupulous and systematic this ancient translation is. The many levels of consciousness and sensitivity to both meaning and form that are reflected in Onqelos are ind...(Read More) |
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Utopia of Understanding
(May 2012)
Between Babel and Auschwitz
Donatella Ester Di Cesare - Author
Niall Keane - Translator
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A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.
Speaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in language—even in one's mother tongue. Drawing from the philosophical hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the testimonies of the German Jews and their relation with the German language, Jacques Derrida’s confrontation wi...(Read More) |
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Hiding Places
(April 2012)
A Mother, a Daughter, an Uncovered Life
Diane Wyshogrod - Author
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Finalist - 2013 Montaigne Medal, presented by Hopewell Publications
A daughter struggles to get her mother to talk about her Holocaust experiences, and tries to understand how those experiences have shaped her own life.
What’s it like to spend sixteen months in hiding, crouching in a tiny cellar, during the dark years of World War II? To know that many of your friends a...(Read More) |
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The Prophet of Tenth Street
(March 2012)
A Novel
Tsipi Keller - Author
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A literary love story.
In this literary love story, Marcus Weiss, a loyal denizen of New York City, retires at age fifty to work on a dictionary he has grandly titled “The Human Gesture in Western Literature.” Comparing himself to Flaubert, who read fifteen hundred books in order to compose his Bouvard and Pécuchet—Marcus immerses himself in literature, culling quotations and passag...(Read More) |
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Dark Mirrors
(December 2011)
Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology
Andrei A. Orlov - Author
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Discusses the two most important figures in early Jewish mythologies of evil, the fallen angels Azazel and Satanael.
Dark Mirrors is a wide-ranging study of two central figures in early Jewish demonology—the fallen angels Azazel and Satanael. Andrei A. Orlov explores the mediating role of these paradigmatic celestial rebels in the development of Jewish demonological traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism ...(Read More) |
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