New Jewish Books
How is it that the prolific nineteenth-century sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel is largely forgotten today? Ezekiel was the first renowned Jewish American artist and one of the most popular artist-celebrities of his day. In...
What was it like to grow up in the house where history was being made? As Attorney General of Israel, Gideon Hausner led the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect and executor of...
Searching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and...
From an acclaimed historian, the definitive story of the Venetian Ghetto and the emergence of modern antisemitism.In the early sixteenth century, amidst the ruins of war and mounting religious hatred, the world’s first Jewish...
A History: Postwar Life, Hopes, and Fears, 1945–1953, Volume 4 Offers a compelling account of how Soviet Jews rebuilt their lives amid postwar devastation, rising hostility, discrimination and the repressive final years of Stalin’s...
The dramatic true story of the heroic rescue of Allied resistance fighters from a Nazi prison train after a devastating betrayal. In the final hours before the liberation of Brussels in 1944, the Germans...
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind Over the...
Translated by Jarosław GarlińskiEdited by David Engel The haunting wartime diary of a Jewish policeman and his tragic fate. Calek Perechodnik (1916–1944), a Polish Jew from the town of Otwock near Warsaw, found himself...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Emotions and emotional life have come to assume an important place in the study of religion and the humanities, but little attention has yet been given to considering...
Seven Women Who Transformed French Holocaust Memory When She Remembered showcases an intertwined group of seven influential women, from well-known figures such as Simone Veil to memory activist Sabine Zlatin, who shaped the production of...
