Recommended Reading Materials
Continue learning with HUC-JIR. Below is a compilation of the books featured during the various sessions at HUC-JIR in the Berkshires.
Featured at HUC-JIR in the Berkshires:
Loaves of Torah: Exploring the Jewish Year through Challah
By Rabbi Vanessa M. Harper
Published by CCAR Press, copyright 2023
The book can be pre-ordered for purchase through the publisher with anticipated publication of December 2023.
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We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism
By Shirley Idelson
Published by The University of Alabama Press, Copyright 2022
The book can be purchased through the publisher or Amazon.
Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine
Edited by Susan Weidman Schneider and Yona Zeldis McDonough
Published by Brandeis University Press, Copyright 2022
The book can be purchased through the publisher or Amazon.
Entrée to Judaism
By Tina Wasserman
Published by Behrman House, Copyright 2009
The book can be purchased through the publisher or Amazon.
American Values, Religious Voices, Volume 2: Letters of Hope from People of Faith
Edited by Andrea Weiss and Lisa Weinberger
Published by University of Cincinnati Press, copyright 2023
The book can be purchased on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
You can also purchase Volume 1 of the book: American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days. 100 Letters through the publisher, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
The following scholarly works have been published by our faculty in the last year:
Midrash Rabbah
Co-Edited by Rabbi Yehoyada Amir, P.h.D
Published by Carmel publishing house
Read this news article to learn more about the book, Copyright 2023
The book can be purchased through the publisher or Amazon.
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
By A.J. Berkovitz
Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, Copyright 2023
Read this news article to learn more about the book.
The book may be purchased through the publisher, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.
These Truths We Hold: Judaism in an Age of Truthiness
Edited by Joshua Garroway and Wendy Zierler
Published by Hebrew Union College Press, Copyright 2022.
The book can be purchased through the distributor, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.
The Body
Lived, Cultured, Adorned: Essays on Dress and the Body in the Bible and Ancient Near East in Honor of Nili S. Fox
Edited by Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Christine Elizabeth Palmer and Angela Roskop Erisman
Published by HUC Press, Copyright 2022
The book can be purchased through the distributor, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.
The Year of Mourning: A Jewish Journey
Co-Edited by Rabbi Lisa Grant, Ph.D.
Published by CCAR Press, Copyright 2023
Read this news article to learn more about the book.
The book can be purchased through the publisher.
The Book of Job in Jewish Life and Thought: Critical Essays
By Jason Kalman
Published by Hebrew Union College Press, Copyright 2022
The book can be purchased through the distributor or Amazon.
Ars Prophetica: Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-century Hebrew Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
By Rabbi Haim Otto Rechnitzer
Published by HUC Press, Copyright 2023
The book can be purchased through Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Pictures / Reproductions
By Rabbi Haim Otto Rechnitzer
Published by Carmel-Yediot Aharonot Press, Jerusalem, Copyright 2022.
Read this news article to learn more about the book.
The book may be purchased through the publisher.
First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Jewish Printing
By Rabbi Joseph Skloot
Published by Brandeis University Press, Copyright 2023
Read this news article to learn more about the book.
The book can be purchased through the publisher, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.
The Last Jewish Woman of Cyprus
By Ruhama Weiss
Published by Petel Publishing, Copyright 2023
Read this news article to learn more about the book.
The book can be purchased through the publisher.
My Second-Favorite Country: How American Jewish Children Think About Israel
By Sivan Zakai
Published by NYU Press, Copyright 2022
The book can be purchased through the publisher or Amazon.
The American Jewish Archives Journal
Published by The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Copyright 2022
The American Jewish Archives Journal is the AJA’s flagship publication that is circulated to 6,000 readers including individuals, libraries, and is available for free on our website.