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Essay Seeking Fact, Finding the Unknowable Debra Spark’s newest book, The Pretty Girl, is now available. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.In literature, as in… Debra Spark April 23, 2012
Nonfiction Understanding the Tanya Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz; Yaacov David Shulman, trans.; Meir HaNegbi, ed.
Nonfiction The Kabbalah Handbook: A Concise Encyclopedia of Terms and Concepts in Jewish Mysticism Gabriella Samuel
Nonfiction Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah: New Insights and Scholarship Frederick E. Greenspahn, ed.
Nonfiction God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice Jay Michaelson
Essay Perec and Kabbalah Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJoshua Cohen of TabletMag looks at the relationship between Georges Perec, whose 1978 Life: A User’s Manualwas just… Naomi Firestone-Teeter October 29, 2009
Essay Borges and the Jews Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJorge Luis BorgesYesterday Zeek at Jewcy posted the final section of Ilan Stavans’ monograph on Borges and the Jews:In this,… Naomi Firestone-Teeter July 16, 2009