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Memoirs: Hans Jonas
Christian Wiese, ed.; Krishna Winston, translator

Because Jonas’s life spanned the entire twentieth century, this memoir provides nuanced pictures of German Jewry during the Weimar Republic, of German Zionism, of the Jewish emigrants in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s, and of German Jewish émigré intellectuals in New York. In addition, Jonas outlines the development of his work, beginning with his studies under Husserl and Heidegger and extending through his later metaphysical speculations about “God after Auschwitz.”

Art and Literature

	Feathers Haim Be’er “Haim Be’er resembles the adolescent hero of his novel in wanting to preserve in hard-won modern Israel some of the quirky obstinacy of earlier European-Jewish utopians.” — Ruth R. Wisse, Harvard University Learn more | Click to buy
	Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community Thomas C. Hubka “Through the meticulous analysis of a single wooden synagogue, he opens before us the nearly undocumented pre-Hasidic popular culture of Eastern European Jews.” — Michael Steinlauf, Gratz College Learn more | Click to buy
	Small Change: A Collection of Stories Yehudit Hendel “The overall effect is almost like reading a diary — the glimpses of ordinary private lives… resonate with loss, disappointment and rich, raw emotion.” — Publisher’s Weekly Learn more | Click to buy
	The Pure Element of Time Haim Be’er “….The writing is subtle, skillful, humorous, and vivacious. Haim Be’er created in this novel a superb blend of horror, ridicule, compassion, self-irony, as well as a remarkable picture of Jerusalem in the early years of Israel’s statehood….” — Amos Oz Learn more | Click to buy
	Reading Hebrew Literature: Critical Discussions of Six Modern Texts Alan Mintz, ed. Six classic texts of modern Hebrew literature viewed from a variety of critical perspectives.  Learn more | Click to buy
	Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art Ezra Mendelsohn “Deeply researched and thoroughly original, this remarkable study encourages new ways of thinking about Jewish artists and their place in the emergence of modern culture….” — Richard I. Cohen, author of Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe Learn more | Click to buy
	Aharon Appelfeld: From Individual Lament to Tribal Eternity Yigal Schwartz Schwartz organizes his book around three of Appelfeld’s major themes: the recovery of childhood and memory, the creation of place, and the religious stance of the Holocaust writer. He develops a new perspective not only on Appelfeld’s work, but on Holocaust literature itself. Learn more | Click to buy
	Landscapes of Jewish Experience: Samuel Bak, Paintings Lawrence L. Langer Landscapes of Jewish Experience represents a unique combination of multi layered paintings by Samuel Bak and the rich, thoughtful essay and commentary of Lawrence L. Langer.  Learn more | Click to buy
	The Boom in Contemporary Israeli Fiction Alan Mintz, ed. “The book fulfills an important need by calling attention to the new voices that have reshaped contemporary Israeli literature and culture.” — Hana Wirth-Nesher Learn more | Click to buy