New Jewish Books
The Purpose of Life Is a Life of Purpose traces the remarkable journey of Rabbi Abie Ingber, a child of Holocaust survivors who embraced his parents’ mandate to pursue peace and reconciliation. Guided by...
What survives when a life carefully etched in one world is swept away by war, revolution, and exile? Zayde’s Crossing tells the story of a Jewish family whose lives unfold amid the collapse of an...
Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Oceans and the Stars, Winter’s Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War, returns with an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and remembrance set in Brooklyn. Told in an...
New York Times bestselling cookbook author Adeena Sussman offers a quick and easy (“zariz”) approach to Israeli-inspired home cooking with satisfying recipes for every day. For Adeena Sussman, the kitchen is an island of calm:...
Christopher Bigsby and Arthur Miller shared a regular correspondence which stretched over nearly three decades of friendship. Their interaction and collaboration included a unique series of recorded interviews which now bring fresh and surprising...
Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied Poland, launched an uprising against their captors, during which hundreds successfully escaped...
From the author of the acclaimed As Close to Us as Breathing, a captivating novel steeped in history, revealing the bonds of family and community, and the healing powers hidden inside broken hearts. For much...
Winner of the National Book Award • Named Amazon’s #1 Children’s Book of 2025 In the shadow of World War II, two orphaned siblings embark on a perilous journey across the mountains of Iran―where survival...
In this innovative intellectual biography, Oded Yisraeli offers an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of Rabbi Moses b. Nahman, or Nahmanides (1194ca. 1270), one of the greatest Jewish thinkers and writers of the Middle Ages. Nahmanides’...
Afterword: Rabbi Sharon Zewde Shalom PhdIllustrator: Brian Pinkney Experience the beauty of Shabbat through the eyes of a young boy in a traditional Ethiopian Jewish village—an evocative tribute to family, faith, and a vanishing...
