New Jewish Books
Fight hate. Make art. In 1943 Amsterdam, Emma Bergsma’s world changes when she witnesses Jewish families being forcibly deported to concentration camps. That pivotal moment lights a fire within her, and she decides to...
Illustrator: Sarita Rich From award-winning author Lesléa Newman comes a shiva story about grief and remembrance, Jewish culture and connection, and learning how to support a friend. Something Sweet is a beautiful and touching picture...
The magisterial graphic novel of the Book of Esther, now back in an enhanced edition. For more than twenty years, JT Waldman’s Megillat Esther has remained the gold standard for what an illustrated book...
Compulsive, shattering, if not fundamentally disruptive, Returning emerges as one of the most important and searingly honest family sagas of our time. Nicholas Lemann, a veteran New Yorker correspondent, grew up in New Orleans, the son of German...
A Holocaust Survivor’s Lessons in Fighting Hate With: Suzanne PinkesForeword: Cory Booker In 1941, when Philip Lazowski was 11 years old, his mother and two younger siblings were murdered by the Nazis, along with...
After she discovers her husband’s infidelity, Rachel Cohen, reeling from hurt and shame, escapes to a rental house in the idyllic town of Woodbury, near Boston. She winds up next door to her colleague...
A Resistance Fighter’s Firsthand Account of the Warsaw Ghetto Introduction by Elie WieselAfterword by Judy BatalionTranslated by: Steven D. Meed The essential new edition of one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust...
Evil, Goodness, and Creating Active Bystandership shares the remarkable journey of Ervin Staub, a scholar and actor in the world whose early life was shaped by surviving the Holocaust in Hungary and growing up under...
Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture A first-of-its kind collection of short stories that provides an underappreciated perspective on the Holocaust, as it was...
World War II was over. But his war was just beginning. Germany 1945 – Former police detective Adam Lapid survived Auschwitz. Now he lives in a displaced persons camp for Holocaust survivors. Consumed by...
