Jewish Studies

Literature and Poetry

The Chocolate Deal

Haim Gouri  •  Translated by Seymour Simckes

A classic novel tracing the lives of two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who meet unexpectedly in a European city.

Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky

Translated, introduced, and edited by Kathryn Hellerstein

Presents the breadth and scope of over fifty years of Molodowsky’s published Yiddish poetry. Bilngual edition.

Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People

Israel Zangwill  •  Introduction, Notes and Biography by Meri-Jane Rochelson

First published in 1892, Zangwill’s realistic portrayal of life in the London ghetto remains a landmark work of modern Jewish fiction.

An Arthur A. Cohen Reader: Selected Fiction and Writings on Judaism, Theology, Literature, and Culture

Edited by David Stern and Paul Mendes-Flohr

This collection presents Cohen’s writings on constructive and post-Holocaust theology, historical studies of Jewish philosophers, literary and art criticism, and selections from his fiction.

Does David Still Play Before You?: Israeli Poetry and the Bible

David C. Jacobson

Through close readings of fifty poems, Jacobson studies how Israeli poets respond to and incorporate the Bible in their work and reflect on the presence of the Bible in contemporary Israeli culture.

Words in My Lovesick Blood: Poems by Haim Gouri

Translated from the Hebrew and edited by Stanley F. Chyet

The poems collected in Words in My Lovesick Blood, in their original Hebrew and in English translation, reflect the range of Gouri’s extraordinary achievements as a modernist poet from the 1940s to the 1990s.