New Jewish Books
At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The...
From BernBaum’s, the beloved downtown Fargo bagel shop and restaurant, comes a gorgeous, down-to-earth cookbook filled with rustic, hearty Jewish-Scandinavian recipes. Since its closure in 2024, BernBaum’s has left a bagel-shaped hole in Fargo,...
A coming-of-age novel that takes us from a very tall boy’s discovery of his love of basketball to a young man who engages in point-shaving while a college player on his way to NBA...
Combining poignant memoir and historical research, a son of Holocaust survivors grapples with the dream of Zionism and its consequences. Israel: A Personal History takes off where Göran Rosenberg’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning childhood memoir, A...
Pour a glass, pull up a chair, and meet your new favorite friends. Debbie Gordon has six months to get a life. Long-divorced and restless, she moves into a quirky Florida condo community expecting...
Translated by Jessie Mendez Sayer A bracing novel that asks how far we would go for the ones we love―and what we would do to destroy the ones we hate Lisa has lost custody...
An extraordinary journey for aficionados of European history, music, and art. Experience dynamic Budapest and imperial Vienna. Marvel at ravishing scenery as your luxurious ship glides through the Wachau Valley, celebrated as one of...
JewGirlis a thought-provoking work of nonfiction that captures what it means to be Jewish and female at a time when antisemitism is rising and women’s rights are under siege. Blending personal narrative with cultural...
Translators: Anita Norich and Ellen Cassedy New York, 1918. One fateful winter night, Miriam Eidelberg finds herself strolling across the Williamsburg Bridge with her literary hero, the man whose poems she knows by heart....
Joan Micklin Silver’s groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from...
