Judaísmo

In this first in-depth portrait of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel today, Samuel Heilman introduces a community that to many may seem to be the very embodiment of the Jewish past. To outsiders who stum …

Sidra De Koven Ezrahi’s sweeping study of modern Jewish writing is in many ways a long meditation on the thematics of geography in Jewish culture, what she calls the ‘poetics of exile and return.’ Un …

In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jew …

Michael Stanislawski’s provocative study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de siècle and early Zionism. Stanislawski takes …

‘Iran’s strategy is to eat away at American power, while legitimising its own role as a regional power with nuclear ambitions.’ —Kim Ghattas In this issue of The Jewish Quarterly, renowned writer and …

Your shadow is your dark side. It is the part of you that causes you to feel unworthy, not enough, not loveable and ashamed, sad and angry. Most of us have suppressed and denied this side of us, howe …

This book follows the origins of the Kedushta, a sequence of poems that leads up to the epitome of Jewish prayer, the Kedusha or Sanctus. It tracks back the earliest forms of prayer in late antiquity …

This book is intended to help manage the messiness of adulthood. Serving as a crossing guard at a local elementary school, the author found himself moved and inspired by the experiences and encounter …

The Jewish population of early modern Italy was characterised by its inner diversity, which found its expression in the coexistence of various linguistic, cultural and liturgical traditions, as well …

Yitskhok Rudashevski was taken to the Vilna Ghetto at age 13 and murdered at age 15. This is his diary, discovered in his final hiding place. ‘Today I turned fifteen and live very much for tomorrow. …