Scribe Quarterly: Winter 2025-26

JEWDAR

BOOKS, MOVIES, AND OTHER NEW RELEASES OF NOTE

Poetry and Ping-Pong to Make the Most of Long Winter Nights

BOOKS / NON-FICTION Portrait of the Rabbi as a Young Man

A HISTORIAN, author, and former archeologist, Jeremy Dronfield has a reputation for blending technical accuracy with compelling and emotional stories. In an earlier book, The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz , Dronfield demonstrated his knack for telling real, hard, stories of surviving BOOKS / NON-FICTION On Sisterhood and Survival

RABBI ZALMAN Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014) — bet- ter known as Reb Zalman—interwove his devotion to Lubavitch Hasidism (he was one of the first shluchim , or

emissaries, of the Lubavitcher rebbe) with a zeal for spiritual innovation, ecstatic prayer, and environmental consciousness. He founded the Jew- ish Renewal movement, and his im- pact (much like the rainbow-striped tallit he popularized) is now ubiqui- tous. Fragments of a Future Scroll

FRAGMENTS OF A FUTURE SCROLL Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Ayin Press December 30

was his first book; originally published by a small press in 1975, it has long been out of print. The rollicking, mind-bending text is Zalman’s initial attempt at de- scribing Judaism’s unfolding place within an emergent “planetary consciousness” — and the capstone of near- ly twenty years of spiritual exploration he conducted in the course of serving as Hillel director in Winnipeg. This fiftieth-anniversary edition presents an updated version of the original, alongside essays by Shaul Magid, Tirzah Firestone, and others to guide modern readers as they (re)discover this extraordinary text. Zachary Kauffman

the Shoah for young-adult readers. This new work follows twin sisters whose childhood in Germany collapses with the rise of Nazism. At only fourteen years old, the sisters are forced to cope with deportation, ghettos, and concentra- tion camps all by themselves. Sophia Hershfield

FRIEDEL AND GINA Jeremy Dronfield Quill Tree Books March 10

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