The Israeli author Yochi Brandes has published a new book, Sheva Imahot, Seven Matriarchs. The book is described as a modern midrashic interpretation of some of the female biblical figures. Brandes has a foot in a number of Israel’s different religious and cultural communities. The following description is from here.
She was born [...]
Shaul Stampfer’s new book, Families Rabbis and Education: Essays on Traditional Jewish Society in Eastern Europe,
has just been published. Below is the table of contents.
The Social Implications of Very Early Marriage in Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Love and Family Life among East European Jewry in the Modern Period
Scientific Welfare and Lonely Old [...]
Prof. Daniel Sivan and Dr. Chaim Dihi have written a new Aramaic-Hebrew dictionary. The dictionary is for the reader who wants to familiarize themselves with Aramaic words which are used in modern Hebrew.
The Society for the Interpretation of Talmud has published Aaron Amit’s commentary on the fourth chapter of Bavli Pesahim, Makom She-Nahagu. This volume, as well as the others already published, is available for purchase from Rubin Mass.
The Jewish Review of Books is about to hit the stands. If both Shmuel Rosner and Azzan Yadin have articles in it, who wouldn’t want to subscribe.
From the JNUL:
1. Another volume of Machon Yerushalayim’s edition of the Or Zarua.
2. A possible new translation of the Rambam’s commentary on the Mishnah. From the description I wasn’t sure if the translation of his commentary is new.
Alan Brill discusses Sarah Stroumsa’s new book Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker.
ADDeRabbi posted some comments on Melvin Urofsky’s book Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. As a follow-up, here is a fascinating video of a lecture by Richard Polenberg, the author of The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process, titled “Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo: Judaism and the Crisis of the 1930s.” [...]
The Masorti Movement in Israel has published a new edition of their siddur, ואני תפילתי. A description of the siddur can be found here. The siddur will be distributed by the Yediot Achronot publishing house so it should be available in many bookstores within the next few days.
Tomer Persico reviews (Hebrew) Jay Michaelson’s Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism. For a recent article by Persico on The Rebbe see here. From his article,
As I will show, the Rebbe did believe—and encouraged his followers to believe—that he was the messiah, destined to reveal himself to the people Israel [...]
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