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Schocken Books, founded by Salman Schocken in Germany in 1931, began publishing in the United States in 1945. Building upon its historic commitment to publishing Judaica, Schocken’s authors include Franz Kafka, Harold S. Kushner, Joan Nathan, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, and Elie Wiesel. Read more
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Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
“Some thinkers are influential, a few create schools, a very few characterize a period… it is possible that just as we speak of the age of Aquinas or of Goethe, later ages will speak of our time as the age of Levi-Strauss… he is a maker of the modern mind.” -James Redfield
In Myth and Meaning one of the twentieth century’s most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, who died Friday, a month short of his 101st birthday, offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as ‘Can there be meaning in chaos?’, ‘What can science learn from myth?’ and ‘What is structuralism?’, Lévi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more about the potential of the human mind.
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Resurrecting Hebrew by Ilan Stavans
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation.
Watch this video about Ilan Stavans’ book Resurrecting Hebrew.
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A Fine Romance by David Lehman
“David Lehman’s A Fine Romance wittily explores the enormous contribution of Jewish writers and composers to the American musical scene. Lehman finds Jewish influence, or what he calls ‘a plaintive undertow,’ even in such unlikely upbeat anthems as Gershwin’s ‘Love Walked In.’ His love-struck history is itself a major entertainment.”
John Ashbery, author of Three Poems
Watch this video trailer for A Fine Romance by acclaimed poet, anthologist, and cultural critic, David Lehman.
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Adam Kirsch Discusses Benjamin Disraeli
Watch this video of author Adam Kirsch discussing his book Benjamin Disraeli.
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The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
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Jewish Body Week
Jewish Body Week celebrates The Jewish Body by Melvin Konner, part of Schocken and Nextbook’s Jewish Encounters book series. Partnering with a wide variety of cultural institutions in NYC, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco – Nextbook’s Jewish Body Week offers a diverse slate of events for people of every age. Dance. Art. Food. Conversation. October 18–25, 2009.
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Conquering Fear by Rabbi Harold Kushner
“Harold Kushner once again arms his readers to battle life’s difficult moments by showing the strengths they already have inside them: this time courage is the quality—the courage to change, to accept, to fight, and to follow virtue. An inspiring book for our times.”
—Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie
From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, published by Schocken in 2001, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.
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Now Available in Paperback: The Wicked Son
“Rare among the defenders of the Jews–and of Judaism–Mamet recognizes the romance in the story of his ancient religion and race, and finds the words beautiful enough to describe it.”–The International Jerusalem Post
“Like everything Mamet does, [The Wicked Son] is blunt and bracing, honest and provocative, original and gutsy.”
—The New York Times Book Review
Publishers Weekly Praises A Fine Romance
Publishers Weekly focuses their cover story this week on new Fall books about music, including Schocken’s A FINE ROMANCE by David Lehman. Craig Morgan Teicher calls it “a wonderfully compelling and poetic analysis that re-envisions the American songbook.”
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Elie Wiesel Discusses Rashi
Click here to watch a video of Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, discuss Rashi, his magical new book that introduces us to the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.
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