New Jewish Books
The ancient Jewish horror at apostasy is nicely captured in The Forsaken, a new novel by the Israeli-American writer Benjamin Kerstein. The Forsaken opens with a pseudoscholarly preface, which explains that the narrative we...
The book at Amazon and on Kindle …That the Nazis’ genocidal purpose survives as an open aspiration of their heirs, radical Islamic terrorists, is proof of the staying power of an evil idea with...
The book at Amazon and on Kindle. One staple of the classic, often hagiographic, biographies of Vladimir Jabotinsky is the idea that his life was split into two while his transformation from a Russian...
Developments in the saga of the missing perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible, whose future is still unknown The Aleppo Codex, a bound book of approximately 500 parchment pages, was compiled in Tiberias around...
Dr. Zhivago’s CIA Connection and the Pope ‘The Zhivago Affair’ is a detailed reconstruction of one of the most fascinating of the Cold War’s cultural skirmishes Whether Doctor Zhivago contributed in any measurable way...
Criminal Attachments: Immigration, Family, and Fraud in Soviet Brooklyn Boris Fishman’s dark new novel explores the tensions between a grandson and his elders as he evolves into an American Slava Gelman, a twentysomething aspiring...
Joshua Ferris Takes on All Kinds of Decay in His Ambitious New Novel‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ wrestles with faith, community, baseball, and what it means to refuse to fill your cavities...
But these days, Ruebner is enjoying a new buzz in Israel. In the past decade, the accolades have been stacking up—the Anne Frank Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, the Israel Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature...
Rivka Galchen Is Not Your MommyThe thirtysomething characters in ‘American Innovations,’ her vital, intelligent, new collection of stories, have trouble growing up Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen’s first book, was one of the most celebrated novelistic debuts of the...
It would mean “God made the body imperfect,” the actress argues in new book Alicia Silverstone, the latest celebrity mother to bring her Hollywood-tinted wisdom to the world in the form of a parenting...
