Set in Lithuania and South Africa, the Yiddish poetry of David Fram (1903-1988) memorialises an almost-obliterated Jewish culture in the old country and its surviving offshoots in the new. Frankel's…

Dealing with the stories of Israelite complaint or murmuring in the wilderness found in the books of Exodus and Numbers that were composed and edited by the priesthood of ancient…

The Chimera is a fantastic creature and a configuration of several different human and animal spirits. In this tale, three women dominate the novella and offer their compelling testimony to…

The classic book on acting, in an attractive updated edition

Since its original publication in 1973, Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting has remained a durable classic and a must-read for…

Features a series of thirty-one embroidered samplers by contemporary American artist Elaine Reichek. In these striking works, Reichek replaces the familiar sayings traditionally found in samplers with witty combinations of…

Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take…

Volume 7 of My People’s Prayer Books celebrates Shabbat as a central family ritual, tracing the development of its loosely structured liturgy from early rabbinic prayer books through medieval Jewish…