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  • Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul

    A Summer on the Lower East Side

    by Jonathan Boyarin ...
    This story of one of the last remaining synagogues in the historic neighborhood and its congregation is "as absorbing as a good cinema verité documentary" ( Booklist).On New York's Lower East Side, a narrow building, wedged into a lot designed for an old-law tenement, is full of clamorous voices—the generations of the dead, who somehow contrive to make their presence known, and the newer ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hasidic Warsaw

    Reb Zalmen and the Aleksander Shtibl

    by Mr Yechiel Hofer ...
    Translated by Professor Jonathan Boyarin ...
    Series series Yiddish Voices
    This book provides the first English translation of Yechiel Hofer's book, Reb Zalmen. Centering on a particular denizen of the Aleksander Hasidim's shtibl (prayer house), it offers a unique and intimate portrait of the lives of those who went inside to pray, eat, study, and argue there in the early 20th century. It is hard to imagine that Reb Zalmen was not an actual figure - someone the young ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

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  • A Fire Burns in Kotsk

    A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland

    by Menashe Unger ...
    Translated by Jonathan Boyarin ...
    A vivid novelistic account that details a crucial period in the evolution of Polish Hasidism, translated from Yiddish.Half a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the movement had drifted away from its revolutionary ideals. Menashe Unger's A Fire Burns ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • As the Story Goes

    Funny, Strange, and Serious Stories of Yiddishland’s Jews

    by Mordekhai Lipson ...
    Translated by Jonathan Boyarin, Jonah Sampson Boyarin ...
    Series series Yiddish Rediscoveries
    A treasure trove of anecdotes that illuminate the lives, humor, and wisdom of Eastern European Jewish communities from the 18th and 19th centuries. A bestseller nearly a century ago in its original Yiddish and now brought to renewed life in translation by Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah Sampson Boyarin, these stories capture the essence of a world where tradition and ingenuity intertwined. From rabbis ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining the Jewish God

    by Leonard Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Jonathan Boyarin, Zachary Braiterman, Laynie Browne, Michael Castro, James Chapson0, Alison Creighton1, Marcia Falk2, Norman Finkelstein3, Lewis Freedman4, Jeff Friedman5, Lenn Goodman6, Susan Handelman7, Michael Heller8, Jack Hirschman9, Leonard V. Kaplan0, Shaul Magid1, Michael Marmur2, David Novak3, Randi Rashkover4, Noam Reisner5, Jerome Rothenberg6, Jonathan Wyn Schofer7, Howard Schwartz8, Bill Sherman9, Benjamin Sommer0, Gerald Stern1, Rabbi Rebecca Alpert2, Martin Kavka3, Jay Michaelson4, Alicia Ostriker5, Kenneth Seeskin6 ...
    Series series Graven Images
    Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Yeshiva Days

    Learning on the Lower East Side

    by Jonathan Boyarin ...
    An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway. Yeshiva Days ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Jews and the Ends of Theory

    by James I. Porter, Svetlana Boym, Elliot R. Wolfson, Martin Land, Senior Lecturer, Computer Science, Yehouda Shenhav, Hannan Hever, Sarah Hammerschlag, Martin Jay, Sergey Dolgopolski0, Andrew Bush1, Jay Geller2 ...
    Theory, as it’s happened across the humanities, has often been coded as “Jewish.” This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this understanding that rely on the self-evident (the historical centrality of Jews to the rise of Critical Theory with the Frankfurt School) or stereotypical (psychoanalysis as the “Jewish Science”) in order to show how certain problematics of modern ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz

    by Eti Elboim, Sara Leibovits ...
    Translated by Esther Frumkin ...
    ‘You are no longer a number’Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos inside.Sara Leibovitz, a 16-year-old Jewish girl, was a passenger on the train with her family. They spent their final moments together on the platform in Auschwitz before their ... Read more

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  • When the Angels Left the Old Country

    by Sacha Lamb ...
    For fans of Good Omens — a queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power of love to change and endure.Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms ... Read more

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  • Judaism For Dummies

    by Rabbi Ted Falcon, David Blatner ...
    Judaism isn’t a race or even a particular culture or ethnic group. There are about 13 or 14 million Jews spread around the world, including about 6 million in the United States and about 5 million in Israel – so Judaism clearly isn’t “a nation.” So what does it mean to be Jewish? Here are the basics:Being Jewish (being “a Jew”) means you’re a Member of the Tribe (an M-O-T). The tribe started with ... Read more

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  • The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

    by Isaac Blum ...
    **LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!A WILLIAM C. MORRIS AWARD WINNER!The Chosen meets Adam Silvera in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friendship, betrayal, and the hatred that divides us.**Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn ... Read more

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  • Yiddish Folktales

    by Beatrice Weinreich ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life, they include parable and allegories about life, luck, and wisdom; tales of magic and wonder; stories ... Read more

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