New Books in Jewish Studies

1293 Episodes

1. Ezra Glinter, "Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah" (Yale UP, 2024)

   Published: 6/15/2025
2. Dave Margoshes, "A Simple Carpenter" (Radiant Press, 2024)

   Published: 6/6/2025
3. Semmy Stalhammer, "Codename Barber: My Father’s Story" (Albert Bonniers Publishers, 2007)

   Published: 6/6/2025
4. Elisabeth Åsbrink "And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War" (Other Press, 2020)

   Published: 6/4/2025
5. Tobias Brinkmann, "Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2924)

   Published: 6/3/2025
6. Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 6/2/2025
7. Adi Nester, "Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity" (Cornell UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/30/2025
8. Krista N. Dalton, "How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

   Published: 5/28/2025
9. Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 5/24/2025
10. Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/23/2025
11. David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/22/2025
12. Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/21/2025
13. Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi: "The Kabbalistic Tree of Life" and "The Anointed"

    Published: 5/20/2025
14. Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)

    Published: 5/19/2025
15. Marc Katz, "Yochanan's Gamble: Judaism's Pragmatic Approach to Life" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

    Published: 5/18/2025
16. Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)

    Published: 5/16/2025
17. Joanna Rubin Dranger, "Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)

    Published: 5/15/2025
18. Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)

    Published: 5/14/2025
19. Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/11/2025
20. Paul R. Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-existence" (U Toronto Press, 2018)

    Published: 5/10/2025