New Jewish Books
Illustrator: Romina Galotta A picture book by Ken Schept and illustrated by Romina Galotta about the power of remembrance and intergenerational tradition. When she finds a feather, Grandma Dot adds it to her collection. Feathers,...
Jews of Eastern Europe For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English,...
For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’...
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity The Souls of Jewish Folk argues that late nineteenth-century Germany’s struggle with its “Jewish question”―what to do with Germany’s Jews―served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B....
This edited volume offers profiles of contemporary Israeli Haredi (i.e., Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) society from several disciplinary points of view, resisting a generalized approach and examining the different, sometimes competing currents, that define it. It...
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo...
Illustrator: Zoom Rockman Ben Jacobs has made a list of everything that could possibly go wrong at his bar mitzvah, but even he didn’t foresee that the shul might disappear just days before the...
A Comprehensive Exploration of Three Millenia of Jewish Art and Architecture This highly ambitious volume addresses the idea of “Jewish art and architecture” by posing and responding to a series of questions. First is...
Jewish Engagements This study features essays from leading scholars highlighting the important Jewish contributions to the popular medieval genre of romance. Writing against strict notions of genre boundaries and canonization, this volume provides a...
A master storyteller’s novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century Manhattan Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side—the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of...
