New Jewish Books
Popular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present. Before the social crises of the postwar era began to influence Jews’ thinking and at a time when global antisemitism posed...
A Children’s Story of Finding Friendship and Learning the Meaning of Hanukkah Can Rebecca solve the mystery of the missing menorah before Hanukkah ends? On the first night of Hanukkah, Rebecca gets the perfect...
Perfect for fans of Star Fish and From the Desk of Zoe Washington, a nuanced middle grade from the author of The Prettiest about two girls―one “bad” and one “good”―who join forces against book banning and censorship. Rose is a...
The first decades of the 21st century have presented numerous challenges for European Jewry: far-right movements and a rise of antisemitism, a global pandemic, and a war on European soil. At the same time,...
A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice Illustrator: Stacy Innerst Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there was Louis D. Brandeis: a lawyer/activist turned Supreme Court Justice who drew on common sense and...
Illustrator: Bonnie Pang Based on the history of Jewish refugees in Asia and spanning multiple years during World War II, this picture book shows how some creativity, adaptability, and a lot of love can...
Conflations of Antisemitism & Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks...
Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism A World of Piety examines the historical aspirations of kabbalah to prompt a revival of ancient rabbinic piety in medieval Castile. What were the aims of the celebrated works...
Israel has always won. They are winning now. And they must always win in the future. In The Sword of Freedom, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen pulls back the curtain on Israel’s success in the...
Veiled in silence and oblivion, certain chapters of Israeli history conceal a submerged reality waiting to be uncovered. This work argues that just below the surface of national history, entire episodes remain hidden-so much...
