Like many Israelis, Shelley Goldman, a retired book and newspaper editor from Tel Aviv, was shocked when Irish author Sally Rooney said she will not sell the Hebrew-language rights to her latest book ...
In the past few months, I have encountered three new English-language books that all have Hebrew in them. Though it’s become fairly common for English language books to contain snippets of Spanish — ...
The wide-ranging project runs from The Book ('Tanach') to the 'Zohar', prayer books for festivals, Talmud, books on philosophy and important Hebrew-languange writers such as S.Y. Agnon and Leah ...
(JTA) — In “Make New Friends,” a mother worries that her tween-age daughter has no friends, and that the pressures of social media will only make the girl’s isolation more acute. In “A Visit (Scenes), ...
The Bloch Publishing Co., oldest Jewish publishing house in America, has arranged an exhibit of old and rare Hebrew books which may be seen at their establishment 31 West Thirty-first street. These ...
A rare 15th century festival prayer book written in Hebrew and estimated to be worth up to $800,000 will be exhibited in New York next week ahead of its sale at Christie's Books and Manuscripts ...
I recently spent an evening of wonder and reflection in the company of several Judaic incunabula (printed books in Hebrew from the 15th century) at Philadelphia’s Rosenbach Museum & Library. Each was ...
Sotheby’s sold a roughly 1,100-year-old Hebrew manuscript for $38.1 million on Wednesday, making it the second-most expensive historical document ever auctioned. The 26-pound book, whose five-inch ...