New Jewish Books
Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary’s Jews As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees...
Betty Crocker Made Matzoh Balls (and other lies) “We weren’t religious per se. The most frequent mention of God in our house was my mother yelling ‘Goddammit!’” Elisa Bernick grew up “different” (i.e., Jewish)...
From the author of The Last Rose of Shanghai comes a profoundly moving novel about a diplomatic couple who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis, based on the true story...
In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most―safe from the Holocaust. But that was...
Nine is just the right number Ketem the cat is looking for a new home. Professor Buber’s house looks like a good place to live, but the local cats tell Ketem the famous writer...
An Isaac Alvarez Mystery 1495 Seville. Can Isaac save his falsely accused friend by tracking down the real killer? The Inquisition is determined to execute heretics like Isaac – those who practice Judaism in...
A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week—narrated by two very different women and punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a...
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II,...
Studies in Exercise and Exemplarity Series Editors: Catherine Hezser,Sean A. Adams Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, this book delves into the lived, embodied and formative dimensions of wisdom as...
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even...
