Bookstore Romance: Love Speaks Volumes
From proposals to “I do.” Book-lovers find their perfect match at bookstores they love. What is the most romantic place to get engaged?…
The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850
This book tells the family stories of men and women who lived hundreds of years ago. Focusing on agunot, literally “chained…
A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel
Recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award, administered by the Association for Jewish Studies This study seeks to examine…
Jewish Country Houses
Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy. Jewish country houses—properties…
The Prelude
A gorgeous new edition of the definitive text of Wordsworth’s The Prelude, with full-color contemporaneous illustrations that illuminate…
The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade
A first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce. We may…
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
In this fascinating meld of history and ecological economics, the author uncovers the medieval precedents for modern concepts of sustainable living….
On James Baldwin
Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish…
Environmental Futures: An International Literary Anthology
A global anthology, curated by experts from around the world, draws on fiction and poetry to examine environmental challenges and their implications…
Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women’s Rights in Israel
In Holy Rebellion, Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks examine social change in Israel through a rigorous analysis of the shifting entanglements of…
Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica Collection
Books Like Sapphires spotlights selections from the Library of Congress’s storied Hebraic collection. Tracing the history of Judaica collecting…
Chaim Weizmann: A Biography
In Chaim Weizmann: A Biography, Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani show how Weizmann, a leader of the World Zionist Organization who became the first…