Items with the category: Modern Jewish Thought | Jewish Book Council

Cover of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience

Lyndsey Stonebridge

Cover of Communities of Meaning: Conversations on Modern Jewish Life Inspired by Rabbi Larry Hoffman

Communities of Meaning: Conversations on Modern Jewish Life Inspired by Rabbi Larry Hoffman

Joseph A. Skloot and Lisa J. Grushcow, eds. 

Cover of On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

Andrew Blauner, ed.

Essay

Women’s Friendship: From Ruth and Naomi to Henrietta Szold

Francine Klagsbrun

June 3, 2024

Cover of Woven Roots: Recovering the Healing Plant Traditions of Jews and Their Neighbors in Eastern Europe

Woven Roots: Recovering the Healing Plant Traditions of Jews and Their Neighbors in Eastern Europe

Cover of A Guide to The Guide to the Perplexed: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork

A Guide to The Guide to the Perplexed: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork

Lenn E. Goodman

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Searching for Martha Freud

Daphne Merkin

May 13, 2024

Cover of Living with Our Dead: On Loss and Consolation

Living with Our Dead: On Loss and Consolation

Delphine Horvilleur; Lisa Appignanesi, trans.

Cover of The Holocaust: An Unfinished History

The Holocaust: An Unfinished History

Essay

Plagues and Hypotheses: Applying Science to the Passover Story

Jeremy Brown

April 22, 2024

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Haggadah Highlights 5784/2024

Simona Zaretsky

April 12, 2024

Cover of Why Rain Comes from Above: Explorations in Religious Imagination

Why Rain Comes from Above: Explorations in Religious Imagination

Devora Steinmetz

Cover of Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life

Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life

Essay

The Ghost at the Feast: Writing in the Shadow of Yiddish

Toby Lloyd

March 25, 2024

Cover of The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (Political Imagination)

The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (Political Imagination)

Essay

What Is Our Duty to the Environment? Questions to Consider on Tu B’Shevat

Joel Burcat

January 22, 2024