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Nonfiction Kabbalah: A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences Shahar Arzy and Moshe Idel
Excerpt A Glimpse Into the Editing Process: What Didn’t Make it Into the Book Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms. magazine, is the author of eleven books, most recently the just-published Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate.… Letty Cottin Pogrebin May 18, 2015
Essay The Power of the Aleph Rachel Cantor is the author of the novel A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World (Melville House). In addition to… Rachel Cantor January 13, 2014
Nonfiction Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life Laura Arnold Leibman
Nonfiction Filling Words With Light: Hasidic and Mystical Reflections on Jewish Prayer Lawrence Kushner; Nehemia Polen
Fiction The Lost Princess and Other Kabbalistic Tales of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Rabbi Nachman; Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, trans.
Nonfiction The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of The Jewish Psychic in Hitler’s Circle Arthur J. Magida
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
