New Jewish Books
The World and All That It Holds―in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory―showcases Aleksandar Hemon’s celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It...
Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914 As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began...
The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds Hardcover In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck...
A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men,...
Illustrator: Mackinzie Rekers An eerie noise in the night is disturbing the sleep of all the animals on Noah’s ark. None of the animals can identify the strange sound that has woken them up....
Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship Ever since Plato’s Republic, the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and so has the study of particular leaders. Although Jewish scholars, thinkers, and popularizers...
Illustrator: Oliver Averill Luis de Torres is a secret Jew, a Catholic convert, who, in his heart, remains Jewish. When the Inquisition comes and Jews are forced to leave Spain, Luis decides to join...
A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and murder in this stylish, twisty thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Lisa Jewell. Welcome...
Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought Jewish Culture and Contexts If politics is about the state, can a stateless people be political? Until recently, scholars were fiercely divided regarding whether Jews engaged in politics,...
The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Introduction: Avinoam J. Patt Jack Klajman is only nine years old when the ghetto walls go up in Warsaw. The Smallest Hope is his powerful memoir recounting...
A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century How do you hold on to faith in a modern world? Rabbi Michael Strassfeld digs deep into the Jewish tradition to help us get to the root...
