New Jewish Books
A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czesław Miłosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature,...
How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World during the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the...
Jews in Gilded Age America. Essays by Twenty Contributing Scholars New perspectives from leading scholars on a defining age in American Jewish history The thematic essays in Yearning to Breathe Free each use a...
Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome Public bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and...
A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice Jews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the...
A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898–1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on...
Translator: Jeremiah Riemer From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler’s quest for power In the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War I and the...
The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness...
Editor: David Stromberg Old Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays―most of them previously unpublished in English―by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific...
Translator: Jeremiah Riemer From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler’s quest for power In the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War I and the...
