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 Ruth Wisse
Jews and Power
Taking in everything from the kingdom of David to the Oslo accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power.

"...a vital message for anyone who cares about Israel's fate and the future of the Jewish people...."
—Michael Oren, author of Power, Faith and Fantasy
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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

DAPHNE MERKIN
On Glückel of Hameln

MICHAEL B. OREN
On the sinking of The Altalena

ILAN STAVANS
On the Hebrew alphabet

NOGA TARNOPOLSKY
On Marshall Meyer

LEON WIESELTIER
On messianism

MASHA GESSEN
On Birobidzhan

CURRENT TITLES

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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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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One Book Program


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