New Jewish Books
As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive...
One couple. Two stories. One truth. Sort of. Jacob Fishman is miserable. His wife, Cindi, is miserable. His editor wants him to write another book. Suffocating in his own self-consciousness, Jacob decides to explore...
Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to...
Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine Europäisch-Jüdische Studien Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in...
A new novel that offers refreshing insight into the intimacy, shortcomings, and experimentation of marriage. Ben Seidel and his wife, Shira, had been growing apart after Shira’s cancer treatment causes her infertility. Now, their...
A True Story of Music and Survival During World War II Illustrator: Olga and Aleksey Ivanov Adapter: Sarah J. Robbins An inspiring true story about one girl’s escape from the Holocaust to become a...
Few features have shaped east European Jewish history as much as the extent and continuity of Jewish self-rule. Offering a broad perspective, this volume explores the traditions, scope, limitations, and evolution of Jewish self-government...
The Modern Jewish Experience While the role the United States played in France’s liberation from Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that American Jewish individuals and organizations mobilized to reconstruct...
It’s 1928 in Odessa, Texas, and eleven-year-old James is struggling to find his purpose in life and to uncover a family secret. With his father struck dead by lightning and his mother in jail,...
Illustrator: Omer Hoffmann Joseph Malin loves his grandmother’s fried fish, which she makes according to an old family recipe. It’s so good, he thinks he might be able to make some money from it;...
