New Books in Jewish Studies
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Barry Strauss, "Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
44 mins; August 19, 2025
Geoffrey D. Claussen, "Jewish Ethics: The Basics" (Routledge, 2024)
45 mins; August 18, 2025
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
56 mins; August 17, 2025
Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, "Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–48" (Cambridge UP, 2014)
83 hours 22 mins; August 16, 2025
Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage" (Backbeat Books, 2023)
44 mins; August 15, 2025
Raffale Bedarida, "Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic Bridges (1938-1947" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
112 hours 42 mins; August 12, 2025
Michael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler" (Cornell UP, 2020)
73 hours 2 mins; August 11, 2025
Daniel I. Block, "Hearing the Gospel According to Moses: Chapters 24-34" (Inspirata, 2024)
31 mins; August 10, 2025
Benjamin J. Segal, "Kohelet's Pursuit of Truth: A New Reading of Ecclesiastes" (Gefen, 2016)
37 mins; August 09, 2025
Yorai Linenberg, "Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity: American and British Prisoners of War During the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
87 hours 54 mins; August 08, 2025
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan ed. et al., "Holocaust Testimonies: Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times" (Bloombury, 2025)
60 hours 15 mins; August 03, 2025
Anne Hand, "Austrian Again: Reclaiming a Lost Legacy" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2025)
77 hours 7 mins; July 30, 2025
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the End of History" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
63 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2025
Gabriella Gelardini, "Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews: Collected Essays" (Brill, 2021)
27 mins; July 26, 2025
Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
62 hours 42 mins; July 24, 2025
Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
46 mins; July 22, 2025
Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee eds., "Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories" (Karnac Books, 2025)
49 mins; July 22, 2025
Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
55 mins; July 21, 2025
Lucas F. W. Wilson, "At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
48 mins; July 18, 2025
Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish, "A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Traditions in Dialogue" (Lexington Books, 2024)
66 hours 19 mins; July 17, 2025
Steven Scott Eichenblatt, "Pretend They Are Dead: A Father's Search for the Truth" (Christmas Lake Press, 2025)
68 hours 3 mins; July 16, 2025
Anastasios Karababas, "In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece: From Ancient Times to the Present Day" (Vallentine Mitchell & Co, 2024)
43 mins; July 16, 2025
Sonja Stahlhammer, "Sonja’s Journey: Through Life and the Death Camps" (2022)
73 hours 11 mins; July 13, 2025
Daniel I. Block, "Hearing the Gospel According to Moses Volume 2: Chapters 12-23" (Inspirata, 2024)
34 mins; July 11, 2025
Yardena Schwartz, "Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Union Square, 2024)
49 mins; July 11, 2025
Robert G. Morrison, "Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe" (Stanford UP, 2025)
62 hours 4 mins; July 10, 2025
Andrew Tobolowsky, "Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
59 mins; July 07, 2025
Michael Marmur, "Living The Letters: An Alphabet of Emerging Jewish Thought" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
61 hours 30 mins; July 02, 2025
Elisabeth Åsbrink, "1947: Where Now Begins" (Other Press, 2019)
64 hours 37 mins; July 01, 2025
Jonathon Stuart Wright, "Joseph and Aseneth After Antiquity: A Study in Manuscript Transmission" (de Gruyter, 2025)
63 hours 34 mins; June 30, 2025
Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; June 30, 2025
Elana Gomel, "The Pilgrim Soul: Being a Russian in Israel" (Cambria Press, 2009)
66 hours 1 min; June 29, 2025
Ewa Herbst, "Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
83 hours 13 mins; June 22, 2025
Nicholas de Lange, "Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Bible Translations in Byzantine Judaism" (Mohr Siebeck, 2016)
65 hours 27 mins; June 22, 2025
Ezra Glinter, "Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah" (Yale UP, 2024)
69 hours 40 mins; June 15, 2025
Semmy Stalhammer, "Codename Barber: My Father’s Story" (Albert Bonniers Publishers, 2007)
87 hours 29 mins; June 06, 2025
Dave Margoshes, "A Simple Carpenter" (Radiant Press, 2024)
55 mins; June 06, 2025
Elisabeth Åsbrink "And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War" (Other Press, 2020)
65 hours 31 mins; June 04, 2025
Tobias Brinkmann, "Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2924)
94 hours 29 mins; June 03, 2025
Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; June 02, 2025
Adi Nester, "Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity" (Cornell UP, 2025)
71 hours 50 mins; May 30, 2025
Krista N. Dalton, "How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
55 mins; May 28, 2025
Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)
75 hours 10 mins; May 24, 2025
Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
55 mins; May 23, 2025
David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 37 mins; May 22, 2025
Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
62 hours 12 mins; May 21, 2025
Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi: "The Kabbalistic Tree of Life" and "The Anointed"
24 mins; May 20, 2025
Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)
41 mins; May 19, 2025
Marc Katz, "Yochanan's Gamble: Judaism's Pragmatic Approach to Life" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
50 mins; May 17, 2025
Ewa Herbst, "Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
86 hours 39 mins; May 17, 2025
Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)
44 mins; May 16, 2025
Joanna Rubin Dranger, "Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)
33 mins; May 15, 2025
Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
49 mins; May 14, 2025
Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)
99 hours 28 mins; May 11, 2025
Paul R. Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-existence" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
56 mins; May 10, 2025
Katerina Kralova, "Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46" (Brandeis UP, 2025)
81 hours 55 mins; May 09, 2025
Chris Webb and Artur Hojan, "The Chelmno Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Press, 2019)
53 mins; May 08, 2025
Nechama Birnbaum, "The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2021)
53 mins; May 07, 2025
Lucy Adlington, "The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive" (HarperCollins, 2021)
71 hours 34 mins; May 04, 2025
Hasia R. Diner, "Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
73 hours 38 mins; May 04, 2025
David Resnick, "Empowered or Abused: The Bible's Plan to Stop Battlefield Rape and Reduce Sexual Abuse" (BfoT, 2025)
28 mins; May 03, 2025
Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)
71 hours 57 mins; May 01, 2025
Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
66 hours 42 mins; April 30, 2025
Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024)
66 hours 22 mins; April 25, 2025
Jerome Gellman, "The Problem of God in Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
31 mins; April 24, 2025
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
69 hours 42 mins; April 23, 2025
Ulf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy" (Lund UP, 2024)
70 hours 57 mins; April 14, 2025
Nora Gold, "18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages" (Cherry Orchard, 2023)
48 mins; April 13, 2025
Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann, "Oberbrechen: a German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 37 mins; April 12, 2025
Haggadah Roundup
108 hours 38 mins; April 11, 2025
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, "Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
48 mins; April 11, 2025
Enrico Fink, ed., "Shirat Hayam: The Song of the Sea" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
69 hours 31 mins; April 10, 2025
Andrew J. Viterbi, "Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur" (Centro Primo Levi, 2016)
60 hours 6 mins; April 09, 2025
Karen A. Frenkel, "Family Treasures: Lost & Found" (Post Hill Press, 2025)
59 mins; April 08, 2025
Orit Rozin, "Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967" (Oxford UP, 2024)
69 hours 34 mins; April 07, 2025
"Queer Jews, Queer Muslims" with Adi Saleem and Shanon Shah
68 hours 43 mins; April 06, 2025
Eli Rubin, "Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
76 hours 42 mins; April 05, 2025
My First Tanakh Stories Set (4vs.): Avraham, Miriam, Eliyahu, Ruth
42 mins; April 04, 2025
Dariel U. González García, "Dos miradas: Israel and Judaism in Puerto Rico" (2024)
73 hours 25 mins; April 01, 2025
Jeremy Brown, "The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19" (Oxford UP, 2023)
63 hours 17 mins; March 31, 2025
Yaron Ayalon, "Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy" (Brill, 2024)
43 mins; March 30, 2025
Hannan Hever, "Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
56 mins; March 29, 2025
Mikhail Goldis, "Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
48 mins; March 28, 2025
Lucy Adlington, "Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust" (HarperCollins, 2025)
66 hours 43 mins; March 27, 2025
Joanne Miyang Cho, et al., "German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930-1950" (Routledge, 2025)
67 hours 14 mins; March 26, 2025
Thomas P. Bernstein, "Holocaust: German History and Our Half-Jewish Family" (Cherry Orchard, 2024)
87 hours 19 mins; March 24, 2025
"T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism" (T&T Clark, 2019)
31 mins; March 21, 2025
Ofra Amihay, "The People of the Book and the Camera: Photography in the Hebrew Novel" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
96 hours 13 mins; March 20, 2025
Kobi Kabalek, "Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
58 mins; March 19, 2025
Laurel Leff, "Well Worth Saving: American Universities' Life-And-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe" (Yale UP, 2019)
79 hours 25 mins; March 18, 2025
Simon Rabinovitch, "Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History" (Yale UP, 2024)
81 hours 44 mins; March 17, 2025
Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
53 mins; March 16, 2025
Moshe Tzvi Wieder, "Siddur from Its Sources" (Wieder Press, 2023)
57 mins; March 11, 2025
Ken Frieden, "Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2016)
94 hours 17 mins; March 11, 2025
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)
81 hours 20 mins; March 08, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
46 mins; March 06, 2025
Stefan Cristian Ionescu, "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
81 hours 28 mins; March 05, 2025
Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish Pogroms in Kiev During the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920" (Edwin Mellen, 2015)
83 hours 31 mins; March 01, 2025
Irina Rebrova, "Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus" (de Gruyter, 2020)
55 mins; February 27, 2025
Bernard McGinn, "Modern Mystics: An Introduction" (Herder & Herder, 2023)
104 hours 30 mins; February 25, 2025