books

'Sons and Daughters': The last great Yiddish novel now available in English

An English translation by Rose Waldman of Chaim Grade’s final, unfinished work has been published.

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
27/04/2025

'The Right to Happiness': Moving fiction about Holocaust survivors

While they are firmly grounded in the hearts and souls of the survivors and their families, these tales tell a universal story of love and loss that will appeal to any reader.

'Rabbinic Scholarship': How the Talmud Yerushalmi was made

This book is a deeply scholarly and ambitious work that sheds new light on the Talmud Yerushalmi and its place within the intellectual world of late antiquity.

By RABBI REUVEN CHAIM KLEIN
22/04/2025

'The Defeat of Evil': A warning for constant vigilance against a resurgent evil within

The Defeat of Evil ends with this somber warning: “Even in victory, we must remember: No triumph is ever complete or permanent. Safeguarding our values demands constant vigilance.”

An FBI vehicle

'The Human Scale': Israel-based FBI mystery is a page-turner

The Human Scale is a superb contemporary political thriller that goes well beyond simply keeping the reader enthralled with a succession of unexpected developments, page after page.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

'The Art of the Music Critic': Music through a former ‘Jerusalem Post’ critic's eyes

The Art of the Music Critic is an incisive and illuminating compendium of an expansive stretch of our musical timeline, presented in an invitingly user-friendly form.

18/04/2025

'Songs for the Brokenhearted': A mosaic of Israeli society

This cast of characters and their stories offer an authentic mosaic of the people who make up Israeli society, portraying the tensions, the long history, and the unresolved traumas.

By JANICE WEIZMAN
18/04/2025

Jerusalem Highlights: April 18-24

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

The power of telling the whole story: Honoring truth and complexity

To make space for a truth that isn’t ours. And to carry it with the same weight we ask for our own.

By JACOB SCHIMMEL
15/04/2025

Educational Bookshop and the cultural institutions of east Jerusalem

Notwithstanding the current toxic political climate, some arguably naïve and ever-hopeful Jerusalemites haven’t lost faith in the dream of coexistence.

14/04/2025
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