About Nextbook

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Inspired by the enormous hunger for books on Jewish subjects written in a lively and popular manner, Jewish Encounters brings together writers of the first rank with ideas and events of the Jewish past. The series includes biographies of major figures from Moses to Emma Lazarus to Marc Chagall. It also examines subjects ranging from Jews and power to messianism. Edifying and entertaining, these books explore themes that have been integral to Jewish life and culture throughout the ages, and that in many cases, lie at the heart of not only American society but Western civilization itself.

"A New Read on Jewish Culture," Nextbook promotes Jewish culture and the arts through our webmagazine, nextbook.org, events, and book discussions in public libraries and other cultural institutions and publishes, with Schocken Books, the Jewish Encounters book series.