New Jewish Books
The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review October 7, 2023, was a watershed event in contemporary Jewish history. What took place on that date challenged the two most basic assumptions of post-Holocaust...
Copper Divide chronicles one woman’s story of friendship tested by a society torn apart by an infamous labor strike and the 1913 Italian Hall Disaster. In 1913, a massive and violent copper miners’ strike...
The 1,400-Year History of Jewish – Muslim Relations From the prize-winning author of The Ottomans, a myth-busting history of Muslim–Jewish relations, tracing fourteen centuries of cooperation and conflict.Today, the dominant narrative of the relationship between Jewish and...
Rethinking Diaspora The volume offers a broad introduction to the rabbinical literature written in the two major traditional Jewish languages of Europe: Yiddish, the language which arose in the Middle Ages amongst the Jews...
Jewish Culture and Contexts Leading scholars of American Jewish experience offer bold historical interpretations that reimagine American Jewish studies The Future of American Jewish Pasts boldly imagines the next chapters in the study of American...
A powerful and moving historical family saga set in post-war Britain, this is the unforgettable story of Becca — the second child born into a loving family in the 1950s. Rooted in the extraordinary journey of...
A hidden truth, a relentless pursuit, and a story history could not silence Germany, 1938. On the eve of war, as Nazi violence engulfs Jewish homes and businesses, young Sarah Frank escapes an SS...
When dreams collide with war, survival becomes the ultimate performance. In October 1916, eighteen-year-old Josephine Therese Marzynski leaves Boston for Berlin to pursue her dream of studying opera at Germany’s most prestigious music conservatory....
On September 6, 1970, twenty-year-old Mimi Nichter was on a flight home to New York from a summer in Israel when armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine crash-landed her...
Studies in Jewish History and Culture This volume attempts to address the complicated issue of distinctive characteristics of Jewish religious life in Lithuania. Its authors and editors deal with the range of religious expressions,...
