New Jewish Books
For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us...
There is a lively discussion in contemporary philosophy that explores the meaning of life or, more modestly, meaning in life. Philosophers, for the most part, assume that religion has little to contribute to this...
A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi...
How Faith Defied Soviet Rule A portal into the perseverance of Jewish culture in the face of attempts to destroy it. To answer his son’s question: what was it like growing up in Samarkand? Rabbi...
Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family In Two Roads Home beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father—years of war and...
Foreword by Rabbi David Ellenson, PhD Time is fundamental to the human experience, and in Judaism it is even more—time is sanctified. Understanding the Jewish calendar is thus essential for fully comprehending Judaism. In...
Elisheva Cohen has just returned to New York after almost a decade away. The wounds of her past haven’t fully healed, but four years of sobriety and a scholarship to study photography with art...
Foreword by Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, PhD Every day of the year, Jewish liturgy includes the Shir Shel Yom, a psalm recited to mark the day of the week. New Each Day by Rabbi...
Off to Join the Circus focuses on an overly enmeshed, neurotic Jewish family in the Washington, D.C., area, and what happens when a relative returns after 64 years. Adele Pinsky ran away as a...
Illustrator: Sam Loman Fourth-grader Chaya Ann Tober loves cats. Even her initials, C.A.T., are perfect for her!She feels so cat-like herself that when her actual cat Ollie, a very picky eater, refuses to eat...
