This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars who absorbed into their thought the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands.
This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars who absorbed into their thought the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands.
Based on the life of a young child from a distinguished Torah lineage in Poland, and crafted from a variety of... Læs mere
This story of Krystyna Bierzynska, an acculturated Polish Jew, explores how she survived the Holocaust thanks to the efforts of her Jewish... Læs mere
The first collection of essays devoted to the rich tradition of Russian science fiction on the page and the screen from a variety of... Læs mere
A New Life in Israel, 1950-1954 is the last book in the trilogy about Shimon Redlich’s childhood and adolescence. A New Life in Israel focuses on his first years in the... Læs mere
In his captivating new book, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer offers a richly journalistic portrait of Russia’s dwindling yet still vibrant... Læs mere
A sophisticated but accessible fusion of theory and critical popular culture of Leonard Cohen’s mystical songbook... Læs mere
A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he... Læs mere
The first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of classroom studies conducted by... Læs mere