New Jewish Books
Illustrator: Michel KichkaTranslator: Shira Atik A big sister in an Israeli family draws pictures as she eagerly anticipates her baby sister waking from her nap. She lovingly describes the baby, imagining all the things...
A.D. Gordon was one of the most interesting and original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Quest for Life presents Gordon’s philosophy, which was developed in Hebrew at the beginning of the twentieth century, to...
A stirring true story, riveting and touching about a Director of Field Operations of the Israel Security Agency September 2000. The Al-Aqsa Intifada, a violent conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority breaks out,...
Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics Zionism and the Melting Pot pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theological, political,...
Here is the list of the 52 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in June 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Editor: Tiffany Gabbay It’s been two thousand years after most Jews were exiled from Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land, and two generations since the Holocaust led to the founding of modern...
A True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff’s best friends risked...
France, 1798. Cavalry Captain Pascal de Charney is summoned by his father, Roland, before leaving to Egypt with Napoleon’s army. Roland wishes Pascal to perform a task for him. Israel, 2010. Yossi Luria is...
Translator: Kristen Gehrman When Bea meets Erica at the home of a mutual friend, this chance encounter sets the stage for the story of two women torn between desire and taboo in the years...
A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor Europe, 1939: Hanne is an adolescent boy, born into a wealthy family from Belgrade. Realizing the Nazi threat is advancing...
A Karakas Speaks by C.M. Kosemen
The Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker: My Father’s Holocaust Odyssey by Scott M. Neuman
Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered by Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Global Jewish Foodways: A History by Hasia R. Diner & Simone Cinotto