New Jewish Books
Though never more than a tiny percentage of the population, Jews have been persistent–if perplexing–participants in the American community at least since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. This volume creates a...
This is a vivid, true story of Soviet Russia during the last decades of the USSR. It provides a lesser-known insider’s view that breaks stereotypes. As a daring memoir of a young woman searching...
Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his death, the meaning of his...
Reading across Cultures explores a body of innovative Jewish literary works from the Middle Ages. In late twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenaz―the Jewish communities in northern France, Germany, and England―Jewish authors translated several Old French and German...
Jewish Identities in a Changing World Since 1989 Russian-speaking Jews, often raised and socialized in the Soviet Union, have “dispersed” in great numbers to Western countries and Israel. Even there, they retain their own...
Edited by Oana Hergenröther, Marjorie Agosín, Jelena Filipovic Love, Loss, and Life between the Biobío and the Danubio This anthology embraces a physical stretch of land, sea, mountain, marsh, desert, and woods that lies...
A Psychological Spy Novel About Two Women on Opposite Sides of Deception Translated by Dalit Shmueli What if one impossible decision during a suspenseful mission shattered everything you believed about your past? Set deep...
HBI Series on Jewish Women A feminist reading of one of the most troubling tractates of the Talmud. Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud as...
Illustrated by Pedro Rodríguez The true story of the lifelong friendship between President Harry Truman and salesman Eddie Jacobson and its impact on the founding of Israel. This 48-page early chapter book biography for...
October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds is a collection of essays by scholars that seeks to analyze how words and imagery used to categorize the violence and savagery of the October 7th assaults...
