New Jewish Books
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,...
She was always ready to help others. But now she must dig through her past to save herself. Israel, 1942. Eighteen-year-old Helen lives for excitement and adventure. When she meets Eric, a handsome soldier, at...
Illustrated by N. Tarcan With its poetic message of welcome, the Statue of Liberty holds an important and beloved place in American history. In time for anniversary of our nation’s founding, this biography of...
Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of “the Wandering Jew” The story behind the mythical figure of “the Wandering Jew” is one of the most...
In the insulated Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tradition and cultural norms are as sacred as religion. Childhood friendships are cultivated to climb social ladders, matchmakers dictate futures, and young girls are primed for...
Crossing the Bronx is an historical literary novel set primarily in the 1950s in The Bronx. It is a modern retelling of the Jacob and Esau story from Genesis. The narrative that propels the story...
Tracing the multifaceted construction and deployment of the Disraeli myth and its legacy in Conservative (and conservative) politics During his lifetime, Benjamin Disraeli, the late-Victorian Conservative Prime Minister (and popular novelist), was often branded...
A child of Holocaust survivors, Grace was always searching for shelter but knew that her home was the last place where she could find it. She was eager to be out there in the...
