Ben-Gurion

A Political Life

David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, a founding father of Israel, and the country’s first prime minister, but he was also a real man, brimming with human contradictions, who was observed in all his complexity by Shimon Peres.

The New Colossus

An Interactive Poem

To mark the 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, Nextbook Press has taken the statue’s classic sonnet – “The New Colossus,” by Emma Lazarus – and updated this 19th century classic for the 21st century. With annotations by Esther Schor, who wrote the biography of Emma Lazarus for the Jewish Encounters book series, this interactive poem offers background, insight, and commentary on the original poem, with videos and photographs and text. You’ll see this legendary work in a whole new way.

Sacred Trash

The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

Acclaimed essayist Adina Hoffman and MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole tell the story of the recovery from a Cairo geniza (a repository for worn-out texts) of the most vital cache of Hebrew manuscripts ever discovered. Part biography and part meditation on the supreme value the Jewish people has long placed on the written word, Sacred Trash is above all a gripping tale of adventure and redemption.

The Eichmann Trial

Award-winning historian Deborah Lipstadt gives us an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the testimony of survivors in a court of law— which was itself not without controversy— had on a world that had until then regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive.

The Selected Poems of Yehuda Halevi

Nextbook Press is pleased to make available here, in its first original e-book, this collection of 35 poems by Yehuda Halevi in their original Hebrew, alongside masterful translations and annotations by renowned essayist, critic, and translator Hillel Halkin, who is the author of a biography of Halevi for Nextbook Press. Designed by Scott Martin-Kosofsky, using a new Hebrew font revived from centuries ago, this digital poetry chapbook is available for free. Read More »