Three New Books for Fascinating Summer Reading
Reviewing: “First Impressions: Sefer Ḥassidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing,” by Joseph A. Skloot. Brandeis University Press, 2023. Through this fascinating work, the author embarks
Reviewing: “First Impressions: Sefer Ḥassidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing,” by Joseph A. Skloot. Brandeis University Press, 2023. Through this fascinating work, the author embarks
Reviewing: “England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century” by John Tolan. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2023. English. Hardcover. 264 pages. ISBN-13:
Reviewing: England’s Jews: Finance, Violence and the Crown in the 13th Century, by John Tolan. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. This scholarly book offers an
Reviewing: “The Formation of a Modern Rabbi: The Life and Times of the Viennese Scholar and Preacher Adolf Jellinek” by Samuel Joseph Kessler. Brown Judaic
“The Anochi Project: Seeking God’s Identity,” by Paul M. Hamburger. 2018. 280 pages. Hardcover. ISBN-13: 978-1532358845. In this work, Paul M. Hamburger assumes his alter
Reviewing: “The Cultural Legacy of the Pre-Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe” by Moshe Taube. University of California Press. 2023. 154 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0520390782. While many of
“Bedtime Reading for Briskers: Lomdus and Life-Lessons From the Laws of Korbanos on the Weekly Parsha,” by Rabbi Ephraim Meth. Independently published. 2021. English. Paperback.
Reviewing: “The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature” by Marina Zilbergerts. Indiana University Press. 2022. Paperback. 184 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0253059437. Conventional wisdom says that
Reviewing: “The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature” (Indiana University Press, 2022) by Marina Zilbergerts. Conventional wisdom says that although most of the
“Disputed Messiahs: Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World During the Reformation” by Rebekka Voss. Wayne State University Press. 2021. Paperback. 384 pages. ISBN-13: