New Jewish Books
The Holocaust is an attempt to explain the inexplicable – the systematic murder of millions of Europe’s Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. It includes facsimile documents that...
Illustrator: Kaja Kajfez After a pogrom forces Batya’s Russian Jewish family to leave their home and make the journey to America, Batya hopes her new life will offer her a chance to become a...
Translator: Philip Boehm Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and...
The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review, which T.S. Eliot called the best American literary periodical. It focuses on the ambivalent ties that Rahv, a Russian immigrant,...
Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature Foreword: Omer Bartov The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust shares a complex tapestry of voices of memories previously underrepresented, ignored and denied. An alternative perspective...
Here are the top 5 most popular/visited films from the 51 books I added in April 2021. (Based on the number of times these books’ pages were visited in May, the first month when...
From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven...
The Minor Virtues, Lynn Levin’s fifth collection of poems, begins with celebrations of small everyday practices–among them, fixing broken things and buying produce from the marked-down cart–which, when fancifully contemplated, branch into deeper appreciations...
A varied collection of articles on early Hebrew printing, encompassing motifs on title pages such as lions, eagles, and fish as well as the entitling of Hebrew books. The next section is on authors...
Jews and the study of antisemitism are often disregarded in multiculturalism in the United States. This “brushing aside” of the Jewish community places Jews in a very difficult situation because, due to continued discrimination...
