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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

Jewish books

Detail from an illustration from 'Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,' by Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American artist Debra Band. (Courtesy)
October 18, 2024, 12:14 pm
This Sukkot, a new book gives a daring – and beautiful – reassessment of Ecclesiastes
In ‘Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,’ Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American artist Debra Band paint the ancient eponymous text in a more optimistic light
By Rich Tenorio
The so-called Afghan Liturgical Quire, a codex some believe is the oldest Jewish book in existence. (Museum of the Bible)
September 25, 2024, 7:44 am
Museum of the Bible unveils newly dated ‘oldest Jewish book’
Museum says 5-inch by 5-inch codex, including prayers, poems and Haggadah, is relic from Jewish minority in 8th century Afghanistan
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rabbi Dov Linzer and Abigail Pogrebin, study partners and co-authors of 'It Takes Two to Torah' (Lorin Klaris)
September 15, 2024, 4:33 pm
What happens when a seemingly odd couple becomes friends and Torah study buddies?
In their new book, Reform journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox Rabbi Dov Linzer show genuine warmth and respect for one another while not dancing around their differences
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Author and native New Yorker Sarah Seltzer, left, and the cover of her debut novel 'The Singer Sisters.' (Kurt Sneddon/Flatiron Books/ via JTA)
August 27, 2024, 1:07 am
In new book ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish rock music family finds sex, drugs – and deli
While some of the most iconic folk legends of the ’60s and ’70s were Members of the Tribe, author Sarah Seltzer’s fictional dynasty’s drama strikes a particularly Jewish chord
By Gabe Friedman
Joshua Leifer and his new book, "Tablets Shattered." (Courtesy/Dutton Publishing via JTA)
August 23, 2024, 10:38 pm
Brooklyn book launch rescheduled after cancellation over ‘Zionist’ rabbi moderator
Event for Joshua Leifer’s ‘Tablets Shattered’ back on as owner of bookstore blames rogue employee for ‘hideous’ incident, fires her
By Luke Tress
Bettina Farack, a research fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, speaks about the Library of Lost Books initiative during a launch event in Berlin in November 2023. (Courtesy Weiner Library via JTA)
July 6, 2024, 3:59 am
Amateur detectives invited to join search for lost Jewish library looted by Nazis
Researchers from the Leo Baeck Institute seek to virtually reunite 60,000 texts from the modern liberal Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, destroyed in the Holocaust
By Shira Li Bartov
National Jewish Book Awards for the best books of 2023 were presented to works by, from left, Sabrina Orah Mark, Ruth Madievsky, Jeremy Eichler and James McBride. (Random House, Catapult, Knopf, Riverhead via JTA)
January 24, 2024, 9:31 pm
Critic’s account of classical music after the Holocaust named Jewish book of the year
Jeremy Eichler’s ‘Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance’ is joined by many other notable titles at the 73rd annual Jewish Book Awards
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
'Blood Years,' 'Two New Years' and 'The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman' won this year's Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book awards. (Collage by Mollis Suss/ JTA)
January 23, 2024, 2:58 pm
Story of Chinese-Jewish family observing two New Years nabs top Jewish kids book award
Announced Monday, the 2024 Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book awards winners include the story of a 6th grader who stands up to peer pressure and a young adult Holocaust memoir
By Penny Schwartz
Some of 2023's best Jewish books. (JTA collage by Mollie Suss)
January 2, 2024, 2:08 am
Some of the best Jewish books – and authors – we’ve seen in 2023
Flawed and complex, historic and particular, the noteworthy works defining this year were written prior to the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities; next year’s list may be marked by war
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A rare Jewish prayer book that sold for tens of thousands of pounds at auction, September 5, 2023. (Hansons Auctioneers)
September 10, 2023, 11:37 am
Centuries-old Jewish prayer book smashes expectations at UK auction
Illustrated volume, brought to appraisers as afterthought alongside sellers’ Harry Potter book, fetches £57,000; may be linked to noted 18th century German Rabbi Yaakov Emden
By ToI Staff
From left to right: A page from a 1607 edition of the Shulchan Aruch printed in Krakow; a brightly colored cover page of a religious text from Venice, 1674; and a page from a 1540 edition of the Arba'ah Turim by Jacob ben Asher. (From the 'Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures'/ Courtesy of Brill Publishers)
July 10, 2023, 5:12 pm
Built by conversos fleeing Spain, Amsterdam’s ancient Ets Haim library gets an update
Massive Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures also underway by Dutch publisher Brill, who says 31 institutions already purchased access to the compilation to be complete in 3 years
By Martin Rosenberg
Dr. Haim Neria with the longest 'ilan' scroll in the world at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, June 11, 2023. (Uri Barkat)
June 12, 2023, 4:11 pm
Israel National Library unveils collection of 36 kabbalistic tree-like ‘maps of God’
At collection opening, NLI says it seeks to illuminate new genre of Jewish research through the ancient scrolls, shed light on mystical teachings for scholars and amateurs
By Charlie Summers
(JTA illustration)
March 28, 2023, 12:47 am
Inside the New York auction house driving the rare-book craze in the Orthodox world
Behavior that confounds veterans of the rare Jewish book market has become routine at auctions organized by Genazym as it taps into emerging luxury market among Orthodox Jews
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The Oxford Annotated Mishnah is the product of 10 years of rigorous academic scholarship.(Image courtesy of Oxford University Press; design by Grace Yagel/ JTA)
June 21, 2022, 4:51 am
They set out to produce an ‘accessible’ Mishnah. The price tag: $645
Oxford University Press annotated version of notoriously cryptic Oral Torah compendium comes steep even for an academic title, but may become more affordable in the future
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Author Jane Yolen and her most famous book, 'The Devil's Arithmetic.' (Photos: Courtesy of Jason Stemple and Penguin Random House via JTA)
January 25, 2022, 9:37 am
‘Devil’s Arithmetic’ author honored with lifetime achievement award
Jane Yolen wins Association of Jewish Libraries’ Sydney Taylor Book Award in Jewish children’s literature; picture book prize goes to Susan Kusel’s ‘The Passover Guest’
By Penny Schwartz
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