New Jewish Books
A brilliantly modern take on Jewish culinary traditions for a new generation of readers, from a bright new star in the culinary world. When you think of Jewish food, a few classics come to...
Illustrated by Raquel Catalina When Benjy is born, his grandfather, a tailor, gives him a beautiful handmade blanket to keep him warm in his cot. As Benjy grows, he takes his blanket with him...
Mosaics: Studies on Ancient Israel This multidisciplinary study takes a fresh look at Judean history and biblical literature in the late fourth and third centuries BCE. In a major reappraisal of this era, the...
On Shabbat and festivals, it is a universal practice in the Jewish world to read the weekly Torah portion – the parsha. There are many books that deal with the weekly parsha, but one...
Editors: Domagoj Akrap, Astrid Peterle, Adina Seeger, Danielle Spera Further Contributors: Nora Berend, Mika Boros, Eveline Brugger, Brigitte Dalinger, Petr Elbel, Alexandra Hylla, Thomas Kuhtreiber, Anna Lidor-Osprian, Klaus Lohrmann, Klaus Mitchell, Simon Neuberg, Siegrid...
Illustrated by Kari Rust In this engaging and inspiring biography, a groundbreaking but relatively unknown woman finally gets her due as one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. Emmy Noether is...
While on a journey, I told a story. Whoever heard it had a thought of repentance. WITH THESE TIMELESS words, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov zya introduced The Lost Princess, the story that would ultimately...
Under the Stretcher takes you into the 2014 “Operation Protective Edge,” the latest of the Gaza-Israeli conflicts, through the eyes of Max Levin, an American-born Israeli soldier who immigrated in 2012 to join the...
A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff A literary gem researched over a...
One summer’s night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches–now they...
