New Jewish Books
Thirty-five year old Cassandra (aka Cass, Cassie, Cassidy, and Cassiopeia) Trout is going nowhere fast. Stuck in her hometown of Philadelphia, she spends her lackluster days working retail and running, and then rinse, repeat....
An invigorating guide to fighting back—part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift How do we push back in a world where political...
Afterword by Jon Polin Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was a regular and beige life, and it worked. It was a warm...
A Faux Photo. A Heavy Burden. Two Lives, Forever Intertwined. “You hear nothing!” his mother shouts. But like many young children of Holocaust survivors, Arthur hears too much. And his mother, Sally Finkelstein Horwitz,...
This book is a historical and cultural study of the work of the Jewish women architects who flourished in Palestine under the British Mandate (1920-1948). This comprehensive study adds a new chapter to the...
From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide When the Second World War began, Theodor Meron was a Jewish-born boy of just 9. He survived ghettos, camps and unimaginable atrocities, but lost most of his...
Illustrated by Jeska Verstegen This debut novel from food writer Leah Eskin of the Chicago Tribune combines the historical sweep and emotional power of The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer and the resonant use of food...
A fresh and witty debut about a young immigrant mother and her increasingly inquisitive daughter, who wakes up one day and decides to find out who her father is. Sonia is a Hungarian immigrant...
River Ridge, New Jersey, 1978 As feminism takes root in the tight-knit Jewish community of River Ridge, New Jersey, women are opening businesses, rethinking their marriages, and challenging their synagogue’s long-standing rules. Not Marilyn...
Esther Kreitman’s fiction explores the realities of Jewish life in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Uncompromising in her critique of injustice and hypocrisy, she exposes the emptiness of those who...
