New Books in Jewish Studies
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The 'Tsenerene': The Most Popular Yiddish Book in History
Jun 29, 2026
The Jewish Press Today
Jun 25, 2026
Antizionism as a Distinct Anti-Jewish Bigotry with Adam Louis-Klein
Jun 24, 202631 min
A Very Jewish Christmas: Jesus and Shabbtai Zvi, from Heretic to Hero
Jun 22, 20261h 4m
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Jun 20, 2026
European Jews in the 21st Century
Jun 18, 2026
Adrian Ciani, "Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Jun 17, 202657 min
Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture" (Pegasus Books, 2026)
Jun 17, 202649 min
Great Minds in Despair
Jun 17, 202645 min
Jewish Identity in Lithuania Today
Jun 16, 2026
Brook Wilensky-Lanford, "A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026)
Jun 15, 202645 min
The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust
Jun 14, 2026
The Legacy of Chaim Grade
Jun 13, 2026
Stephen Spector, "God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis" (Jewish Publication Society, 2026)
Jun 12, 202642 min
Matti Friedman, "Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe" (Spiegel & Grau, 2026)
Jun 9, 202634 min
Christopher D. Stanley, "A Ram for Mars" (NFB Publishing, 2026)
Jun 9, 202658 min
Sarah M. Cushman et al eds., "The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Routledge, 2026)
Jun 7, 20261h 10m
Jane Kanarek, "Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah" (Brandeis UP, 2025)
Jun 6, 20261h 3m
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 2, 202640 min
Homes of the Past
Jun 1, 2026
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
May 29, 2026
Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
May 24, 2026
Ellen Levitt, "Former Synagogues of the United States: Looking at Buildings That Once Housed Synagogues, Schools, and Other Jewish Institutions" (Resource Publications, 2026)
May 22, 20261h 2m
Ruth Balint, "Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe" (Cornell UP, 2021)
May 22, 202654 min
Rachel Deblinger, "Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2025)
May 20, 20261h 1m
"My Heart is in the East": How Yiddish Speakers Moved to the East
May 19, 2026
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
May 18, 2026
Under the Tenement Rooftops: Immigrant and Migrant Families in New York
May 16, 20261h 3m
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
May 13, 2026
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, "How to Read Mishnah and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic Literature" (U California Press, 2026)
May 11, 20261h 0m
The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration
May 11, 20261h 3m
Nazi-Looted Art and Archives: Recovering and Preserving Jewish Culture
May 10, 20261h 31m
Justin Michael Reed, "The Injustice of Noah's Curse" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 10, 202633 min
Gideon Reuveni, "The Great Repair: Emotions, Memory, and the German–Jewish Settlement after the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2026)
May 9, 20261h 7m
Jewish Anarchist Women 1920–1950: The Politics of Sexuality
May 8, 2026
Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs To Know by David Harris
May 8, 202635 min
Yiddish: Biography of a Language
May 6, 2026
Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938" (Stanford UP, 2026)
May 5, 202652 min
Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938" (Stanford UP, 2026)
May 5, 202652 min
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, "Rambam Mishne Torah, Volume 1" (Koren Publishers, 2026)
May 3, 202625 min
Roger Frie, "Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 3, 20261h 3m
Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 1, 20261h 32m
The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915–1953
Apr 28, 2026
Gennady Estraikh, "The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia" (Bloombury, 2023)
Apr 26, 20261h 0m
Josh Franklin, "Where Are You?: Finding Yourself in the Bible" (Wipf & Stock, 2026)
Apr 26, 202642 min
Yair Mintzker, "I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 23, 202642 min
Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 23, 202647 min
Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis
Apr 20, 20261h 7m
Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Apr 20, 20261h 2m
Karolina Przewrocka-Aderet, "Polanim: From Poland to Israel" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)
Apr 19, 202651 min