New Jewish Books
A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (1933–2018), one of...
Offers the provocative argument that Jews had long celebrated Christmas in the “Old World“ This book seeks to answer a perplexing question: Why were Christmas traditions once transmitted in Yiddish, a language exclusive to...
It’s never too late to become your best self… After twenty years in an isolated Cape Breton commune, Charlie Tanner loses the man she thought was her soulmate—and her voice. Fleeing to a quiet...
The German-Jewish Collectors of Edwardian Britain The first published account of the German-Jewish magnates who won an international reputation as the leading art collectors of Edwardian Britain The small but conspicuous group of German-Jewish...
An anthology of European and American short stories from the 1870s through the 1930s in which Jewish writers respond to antisemitism with humor, satire, irony, and hope Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
An historical novel inspired by the experiences of the author’s own family after the Holocaust, a sweeping saga about survival, loss, love, and the reverberating effects of war In 2018, Zoe Rosenzweig is reeling...
Mizrahi-Arab-Ashkenazi Relations Since the Dawn of Zionism Translator: Haim Watzman Originally published in Hebrew in 2021, Hillel Cohen’s Enemies, a Love Story argues that to understand the ongoing conflict in Palestine/Israel we need to examine the...
Facts, Myths, Appraisal The Jewish Brigade, a unit of the British Army during WWII, played a crucial role on behalf of the Jewish People, in the fight against Nazi Germany. Formed in 1944, it...
Illustrator: Irina Avgustinovich In this interpretation of the biblical story of Genesis, Eve and Adam are praised for their curiosity even as they must accept the consequences for eating from the Tree of Knowledge....
A compendium of the rulings of the great Sephardic authorities Halachah has always been a cornerstone of Sephardic Jewry. The first halachic work rooted solely in the practical conclusions of the Talmud was Sefer Hahalachot by...
