Daniel Schwartz‘s book The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image has just been released. Ranging from Amsterdam to Palestine and back again to Europe, the book chronicles Spinoza’s posthumous odyssey from marginalized heretic to hero, the exemplar of a whole host of Jewish identities, including cosmopolitan, nationalist, reformist, and rejectionist. Daniel [...]
Shmuel Glick, the editor of the Kuntress ha-Teshuvot he-Ḥawash, has published Eshnav le-Sifrut ha-Teshuvot (A Window Into the Responsa Literature). The book is available from the Schocken Institute in Israel.
The second volume of the English edition of Binyamin Lau’s The Sages is now available. I have all four volumes of the Hebrew edition and I highly recommend it. For some comments about the fourth volume of the Hebrew edition, see this (H) post by Rav Tzair.
Norman Solomon, the author of The Analytic Movement: Hayyim Soloveitchik and his School and The Talmud: A Selection (Penguin Classics), has published a new book, Torah from Heaven: The Reconstruction of Faith. From the publisher: Traditional Jewish religious belief speaks of a divinely revealed, perfect text, authoritatively expounded. The question this book addresses is one [...]
Coming soon from Brill: Seride Teshuvot-A Descriptive Catalogue of Responsa Fragments from the Jacques Mosseri Collection Cambridge University Library. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series Volume 3
Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures by Talya Fishman has won the National Jewish Book Council’s award for the best work of scholarship. Congratulations.
A new project of translation is in the works: The Hackmey Hebrew Classical Library, a joint publication of Harvard University Press and Tel Aviv University Press seeks to make classical Hebrew and Aramaic texts from the post-biblical era to the rebirth of Hebrew in the nineteenth century as a series of facing-page translations which are [...]
The NYT has an article about a new index to the Talmud. (hat tip) It is available in either English or Hebrew and is published by Feldheim. There is a website for the book that includes some sample pages and it looks very good. I would be interested to know if anybody has used it.
There are a few new books from Israel on aggadah that may be of interest. (hat tip) The next volume of Benny Lau’s series on the Sages has been released. This volume is called ממשנה לתלמוד. Yehuda Brandes has released the another volume of his examination of Talmudic legends, Aggada Le-Ma’aseh II. See here for [...]
A two-volume memorial volume has just been published for Prof. I.M. Ta-Shma. (hat tip) The book can be ordered from EliezerBrodt-at-gmail.com. It is nine hundred pages of research into liturgy, Jewish law, customs, history, etc.
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