Nextbook/Schocken Book Series
Inspired by the enormous hunger for books on Jewish subjects written in a lively, intelligent, and popular manner, Jewish Encounters brings together writers of the first rank with people and ideas and events from the Jewish past. The series, under the general editorship of Jonathan Rosen, is a collaboration between Nextbook, devoted to the promotion of Jewish literature, culture, and ideas, and Schocken, with its storied backlist of Jewish classics.

FEATURED BOOK

Jews and Power Adam Kirsch
Benjamin Disraeli
A dazzling examination of the life of one of the most powerful and enigmatic figures of the nineteenth century.

"...a lively, inquiring biography...."
—Publisher's Weekly
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FORTHCOMING BOOKS

STEPHEN J. DUBNER
On Moses

JEFFREY GOLDBERG
On Judah Maccabee

HILLEL HALKIN
On Yehuda Halevi

BEN KATCHOR
On the dairy restaurant

MELVIN KONNER
On the Jewish body

ELENA LAPPIN
On The Song of Songs

SETH LIPSKY
On Abraham Cahan

JONATHAN MAHLER
On the Lubavitcher Rebbe

ADAM KIRSCH
On Benjamin Disraeli

ADINA HOFFMAN & PETER COLE
On the Cairo Geniza

DAPHNE MERKIN
On Glückel of Hameln

ILAN STAVANS
On the Hebrew alphabet

NOGA TARNOPOLSKY
On Marshall Meyer

LEON WIESELTIER
On messianism

MASHA GESSEN
On Birobidzhan

DAVID LEHMAN
On The American Songbook

ELIE WIESEL
On The Life of Rashi

DAVID MARGOLICK
On Show of Shows

CURRENT TITLES

Resurrecting Hebrew
Ilan Stavans
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Marc Chagall Marc Chagall
Jonathan Wilson
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The Wicked Son The Wicked Son
David Mamet
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Emma Lazarus Emma Lazarus
Esther Schor
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Betraying Spinoza Betraying Spinoza
Rebecca Goldstein
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Jews and Power Ruth Wisse
Jews and Power
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Barney Ross Barney Ross
Douglas Century
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Maimonides Maimonides
Sherwin Nuland
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The Life of David The Life of David
Robert Pinsky
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