When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, the country's Jewish population numbered nearly 200,000. Those Jews who were able to find refuge in neutral countries were safe; those who fled to count...
This book is a coat of many colors. It is a collection of essays written in English by the distinguished Israeli literary and cultural critic, Benjamin Harshav, covering the whole span of Jewish cultu...
"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that "Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than B...
HENRY COHEN, born into a family of Texas Reform Rabbis, was ordained as a rabbi at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1953. In 1964, he became rabbi of Beth David Reform Congregation in Philade...
Keys to the Kingdom is an easy-to-read introduction to the Christian Kabbalah, describing its major principles and historical elements. Drawing on the gospels and historical records, author Migene Gon...
" Harriet Murav has now provided English-language readers with the first comprehensive and most insightful study of Kovner and the image of the " Jew" in late imperial Russia. Her tale is well told an...
The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about the new meaning has been done by French writers of the left, but their work is a storm of contr...
Bernard Lazare's controversial magnum opus, originally published in France in 1894, asks why the Jews have aroused such hatred for three thousand years. The journalist, though severed from his Jewish ...
An award-winning history of the rise and fall of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater "Jeffrey Veidlinger relates a fascinating and little-known piece ofhistory.... He] distills a remarkable amount o...
Informed by literary theory and Homeric scholarship as well as biblicalstudies, Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode sheds new light on theHebrew Bible and, more generally, on the possibil...
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