New Jewish Books
A fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, and a gripping account of the secret operation to rescue his last artworks. The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a...
A Jewish-American family saga about the rise of its fashion retailing empire and how it splits and ultimately devastates the family. Shelf Life is a Jewish–American family saga about the rise of its fashion...
Even as a fourth-generation Jewish Texan, S. L. Wisenberg has always felt the ghost of Europe dogging her steps, making her feel uneasy in her body and in the world. At age six, she’s...
The Life and Death of Jerusalem’s Maghrebi Quarter, 1187–1967 The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple. Three days after the...
Routledge Studies in Modern History This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison...
Illustrator: Natalia Grebtsova Debbie Friedman always had music inside her, and she dreamed of using her love of singing to do what no one else had done before―create Jewish music that would welcome, include,...
The literary tradition of the fairy tale has long endured as the vehicle by which we interrogate the laws of reality. These fantastical stories, populated with wolves, kings, and wicked witches, have throughout history...
Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon...
The Deportation of the Slovak Jews by the Hlinka Guard The Holocaust began for the Slovak Jews in Autumn of 1938, when Slovakia became an autonomous region. Jewish property was confiscated and businesses liquidated...
Viila and the Doomsday Affair is a rollicking quest to save the universe by a very unusual group–a rabbi and his clueless son, a beautiful vampire, a sex obsessed teraphim, Barnabas the demon, Queen...
