New Jewish Books
Jewish Lives A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was...
Introduction by award-winning author Ken Mochizuki Afterword by Devin Naar, author of Jewish Salonica Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel follows a Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help his Japanese neighbors while they...
Our new favorite trope: Childhood friends. To enemies. To lovers. In a chemistry-filled debut romance. Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson’s last conversation—fourteen years ago at summer camp—ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated...
London, 1832: Isabelle Lira may be in distress, but she’s no damsel. Since her father’s death, his former partners have sought to oust her from their joint equity business. Her only choice is to...
Translator: Corey Twitchell Jewish Culture and Contexts The Hebrew word zimzum originally means “contraction,” “withdrawal,” “retreat,” “limitation,” and “concentration.” In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done before creating the world to...
Here is the list of the 66 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2023. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
The Hess Twins’ Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America See the Holocaust through the Eyes of Children. Stefan and Marion Hess’s happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the...
A multi-generational biblical saga of captivity, romance, faith, and redemption, set against the Judean exile in Babylon. Everything changes for Sarah the day Nebuchadnezzar’s army storms Jerusalem. In an instant, her peaceful life on...
“In this richly diverse mélange of human lives, many actual and many imagined, Stewart Florsheim embraces the light and the dark much as his beloved Rembrandt employed chiaroscuro to reveal the complexity of a...
Translator: R. D. V. Glasgow Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived...
