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Kaddish: Women's Voices

Published: 2013-11-01

Hardcover: 268 pages

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Winner of:2013 National Jewish Book AwardFor centuries, Jews have turned to the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer upon experiencing a loss. This groundbreaking book explores what the recitation of Kaddish has meant specifically to women. Did they find the consolation, closure, and community they ...

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Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority

by Sue Fishkoff

Published: 2010-10-12

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Kosher? That means the rabbi blessed it, right? Not exactly. In this captivating account of a Bible-based practice that has grown into a multibillions-dollar industry, journalist Sue Fishkoff travels throughout America and to Shanghai, China, to find out who eats kosher food, who produces ...

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One More Year: Stories

by Sana Krasikov

Published: 2009-08-11

Paperback: 256 pages

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One More Year is Sana Krasikov’s extraordinary debut collection, illuminating the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet Empire. With novelistic scope, Krasikov captures the fates of people–in search of love and prosperity–making their way in a world whose ...

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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

by David Nirenberg

Published: 2014-03-03

Paperback: 624 pages

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“Exhilarating . . . a scholarly tour de force. The story Nirenberg has to tell is not over.”?Adam Kirsch, Tablet This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenber...

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Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

by David Nirenberg

Published: 2016-07-21

Paperback: 348 pages

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Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David Nirenberg examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived wi...

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Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel (Studies of Jews in Society)

by Yael Raviv

Published: 2015-11-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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When people discuss food in Israel, their debates ask politically charged questions: Who has the right to falafel? Whose hummus is better? But Yael Raviv’s Falafel Nation moves beyond the simply territorial to divulge the role food plays in the Jewish nation. She ponders the power strugg...

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Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature (Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law & HBI Series on Jewish Women)

by Ronit Irshai

Published: 2012-06-12

Paperback: 376 pages

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This book presents, from the perspective of feminist jurisprudence and feminist and liberal bioethics, a complete study of Jewish law (halakhah) on contemporary reproductive issues such as birth control, abortion, and assisted fertility. Irshai examines these issues to probe gender-based v...

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Marching to Zion: A Novel

by Mary Glickman

Published: 2013-11-12

Paperback: 262 pages

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A family of Eastern European refugees finds a home in racially charged St. Louis in this sweeping historical novel from a National Jewish Book Award finalist. In 1916, Mags Preacher arrives in the big city of St. Louis, fresh from the piney woods, hoping to learn the beauty trade. Instead,...

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Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures (Studies in Antisemitism)

by Andrei Oisteanu

Published: 2009-05-01

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Inventing the Jew follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures (their legends, fairy tales, ballads, carols, anecdotes, superstitions, and iconographic representations) to that of “high” cultures (including...

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Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death

by Erica Brown

Published: 2014-04-15

Paperback: 352 pages

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Called “cathartic” by The Wall Street Journal, this wise and affirming book helps you accept and prepare for death through important conversations about what matters most.“Extreme empathy with extreme tough-mindedness.” That’s how David Brooks, of The New York Times, describes Er...