New Jewish Books
Illustrator: Renée Andriani Funny rhymes and charming illustrations bring a family’s pre-Shabbos predicament to life! It’s Friday morning and, as usual, Bubbe Judy has brought home a giant jar of gefilte fish-her grandson Jack’s...
Translator: Jon Cho-Polizzi A controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past—and a handbook for minorities on how...
A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Translator: Eric M. B. Becker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz’s brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the...
This exciting and adventurous start to a middle-grade trilogy follows a queer boy and his family as they try to halt the chaotic effects of a mysterious ring, drawing upon Jewish mythology to navigate...
The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer Zelda Popkin’s adventurous life could have made her the protagonist of one of her own novels. In his brilliant telling of the story of...
Between State and Synagogue in Modern Israel Judaism and Jewish Life Foreword: Justice Elyaḳim Rubinshṭain Since the founding of the Zionist movement until today, the question of the relationship between “church” and state in...
Suffering guards its mysteries, but when an upswell of antisemitism forces Rachel into hiding from the Righteous, she begins her journey to its center. The trip will take her back in history, to Sariah,...
It’s 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxford-educated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff,...
There’s a global fainting pandemic that affects everyone but the Jews. Naturally, the world goes upside down (both literally and figuratively), and the Schtinklers are no exception. Sara is a quirky goat scientist whose...
Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia Russian Shorts Gennady Estraikh’s book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the...
