S.Y. Agnon's first book-length, breakthrough work, originally published in Hebrew in 1912 and now available in English for the first time in a fully annotated edition—this novella depicts an impossibl
Gates of Bronze is a landmark of Hebrew fiction. In Hazaz's fictional village of Mokry-Kut, portentous currents converge. Gates of Bronze assaults the contradictions of Jewish revolutionary universali
Torah MiEtzion presents original, insightful essays on the Bible by the rabbis of Yeshivat Har Etzion, one of today's most vibrant and influential schools of modern biblical interpretation. Since its
The Book of Kings narrates the vivid and turbulent history of Israel and its monarchs. In I Kings: Torn in Two, master educator Alex Israel uncovers the messages hidden between the lines of the biblic
By Faith Alone chronicles the inspiring life story of Israeli religious and political leader, Rabbi Yehuda Amital. From his Holocaust survival to his founding of Yeshivat Har Etzion, Rabbi Amital live
A humble man and a religious man, who worked as a presser in a laundry, Ezra Siman Tov was also a teller of stories, stories that enthralled and capitivated his friends in their old Nachlaot neighborh
The heat of the Negev Desert is captured in these three novellas. An escaped murderer holds a young woman hostage in House of Bondage. In The Maestro of Yerucham, a Russian violinist who has survived
This collection of remarkably beautiful, daring and often surprising poems is the first by Israeli poet Miron C. Izakson to appear in a bilingual English-Hebrew edition. Izakson's poetry is many-sided
Mikra and Meaning is a collection of essays by a leading Bible teacher who employs a contemporary, literary-theological method to examine biblical narratives from the life of Abraham to the trials of
Each year on Yom Kippur, fast days, and the days leading up to the High Holidays, Jews around the world recite the Thirteen Midot: “HaShem, HaShem, El Rahum veHanun, Erekh Apayim, veRav Hesed veEmet,
