New Jewish Books
Ustilug, Ukraine The Jewish residents of Ustilug lived in peace for many generations, raising their children to continue their forefathers’ traditions. Igor Stravinsky, the famed composer of “The Firebird” and “The Rite of Spring”,...
Real Estate is the third and final installment in three-time Booker Prize nominated Deborah Levy’s Living Autobiography series: an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it in...
In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration of the causes and consequences of the Holocaust in Lithuania provides the first overview for...
A little girl disappears from Belzec Camp without a trace. Will she survive the war on her own? Poland, 1942. At the very height of World War II, little Ruthie and her mother are...
Cultural Memory in the Present In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas’s Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while...
The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill’s internment of some...
Creating Community expands the written histories of Springfield that have long overlooked this minority in the local community. It also adds to the growing study of small Jewish communities around the United States. Springfield...
A Federal Prosecutor and Child of Holocaust Survivors, Tasked with Stripping US Citizenship from Aged Nazi Collaborators, Finds Himself Caught in the Middle As the son of Holocaust survivors, federal prosecutor Allan Gerson thought...
A biased and committed review of Márk Mezei’s Zsidó Temetés (A Jewish Funeral), Kalligram, 2021 I don’t think I am quite the right person to be writing about the book. I was totally consumed...
Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this poignant debut novel-in-verse. Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she’s...
