books

'Melting Point': Showing the dilemmas and struggles of Diaspora Jewry

A descendant of hassidim and Zionist activists, Cockerell writes compellingly about our people’s wanderings, the need for a Jewish homeland, and her family’s fight to create it.

By GIDEON SYLVESTER
04/01/2025

'Iran's Ministry of Intelligence': A CIA analyst's look at Iranian intelligence

"Free of conflict, Tehran immediately struck up a friendship with Hamas – despite its being a Sunni organization rather than a Shi’ite one."

By COLIN SHINDLER
04/01/2025

New AI tool could redefine book charts and bestseller lists

The tool will be available in the first quarter of 2025 to publishers, retailers, and industry representatives.

'Giant Love': Shedding light on Edna Ferber and the making of 'Giant'

As Edna Ferber’s popularity has waned over the years, Julie Gilbert hopes to reintroduce the first Jewish Pulitzer Prize winner and “put her at the center of 20th-century women writers.”

By GEORGE MEDOVOY
30/12/2024

'My Grandmother’s Candlesticks': Honoring a grandma who resisted assimilation

As a grandmother herself, the author, Diane Schulder Abrams, speaks for a generation of contemporary female elders who led extraordinary careers while keeping their Jewish values front and center.

By LIANE GRUNBERG WAKABAYASHI
22/12/2024

'Uncovered': Examining Halacha through a female lens

Each of its nine chapters includes source material from biblical verses, Talmudic discussions, and classical and contemporary responsa, in Hebrew/Aramaic and English, presented chronologically. 

'This is their song too': A look at Phish and their Jewish fans

The book, clearly written for a very narrow audience of Jewish fans – many have seen several hundred shows – details every possible point of connection between Phish and Judaism.

By HOWARD BLAS
15/12/2024
 One of the books featured in the exhibit.

Library of Lost Books: Exhibit seeks help finding Nazi-looted texts

The project, titled “Have you seen this book?” invites the public to help locate Jewish books lost in WWII.

Polish police took initiative in Jewish killings, new book explores

Polish police murdered Jews during the Holocaust with gusto and even without Nazi orders, according to new resesarch.

By ZEV STUB/JTA
10/12/2024

'Jerusalem That Once Was': An architect's look at the history of Israel's capital

A new book by famed architect and former Jerusalemite David Kroyanker shines a penetrative loving light on the capital’s fading beauty.

08/12/2024
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