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Set in the intimate Jerusalem cafes of the 1950s and 1960s, the celebrated Appelfeld reveals the centrality of that city to his life and writing. With 40 paintings by Meir Appelfeld.

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Hidden Light is a far-reaching exploration of the scientific principles embedded in the Tanakh. Dr. David Medved draws on cosmology, astronomy, mathematics, chemistry, geology, and archeology to illuminate various biblical issues and phenomena. He demonstrates how the language of Psalm 19 anticipates the most recent findings on pulsars, binary star systems, and gravitational wave projects, provides an ingenious exploration of the chemical prop...

To read the poetry of Rivka Miriam is to view the world through the eyes of a sensitive soul, profoundly affected by the Holocust experience of her parents, deeply committed to engaging in the Bible and classical Jewish sources and yearning for intimacy with the divine. In language characterized by an appealing simplicity, Rivka Miriam shares with her readers a variety of moving responses to a lifetime of experiences which have spanned virtual...

When war breaks out in Israeli in 1973, childhood friends Haim and Dov are called up together to serve in a tank battalion. In the chaos of battle, the friends are separated. A month later, on his first leave, Haim returns home alone. Weary and saddened, but sustained by religious faith, he struggles to come to terms with his experiences. One question remains uppermost in Haims mind: What happened to Dov? Reminiscent of the work of S.Y. Agnon,...

Berdichevsky's greatest novella is the title piece of this outstanding collection by the classic early Hebrew writer.

Brenner's last novel is set in a Jewish settlement in Palestine in the years before World War I, when the tragic pattern of Arab-Jewish relations was taking shape. Much more than an absorbing period piece, it is a story of the individual suffering and loneliness that are part of the human condition.

I.I. Magdalen's Henning Forsell takes up the case of the nineteen-year-old "Emma H., well-born, a great beauty, and "apparently" a collaborator, murdered or executed in Belgium in 1945 in the aftermath of the Second World War. Three men carried out the "execution": an exiled Hungarian Stalinist who believes in a scientific future, a conservative Catholic intellectual, and a self-made entrepreneur-politician. All three were in the "maquis, thou...

What would happen if the members of the Roman Curia discovered that the Pope was about to publicly state that he had received a private revelation that the world was about to end? Pope Gregory XVII claims to have received a private revelation of the end of the world-an apocalypse coming not in some distant future but at an moment. Is he a madman, as his cardinals suspect, a mystic, or a fanatic grasping for an unholy power?

By the time of this death at the age of only 22, MZ Feierberg had written a small, but impressive collection of stories that promised an impressive future as a major writer. Collected and translated by Hillel Halkin, this was the first English edition of this important early Hebrew writer of the modern age.

Subtitle on cover: Reflections by alumni of Taglit-Birthright Israel trips.

During World War I, the head of a British spy ring in a Jewish colony in Ottoman-ruled Palestine, the beautiful Sarah Aaronsohn, killed herself. When the ring was broken by the Turks, leaving behind a letter in which she asked to be avenged. Was she? And what did this have to do with the spectacle of four women who ran through the town, jeering and cursing the arrested spies as though let loose from "an infernal world of Gorgons and Furies?" A...